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That were just living the normalcy of their lives. and the gut of this community was cut out in an instant. so recognizing and making sure that we keep that humanity threaded throughout this process will be critical. i will go back to washington tomorrow. were in the midst of the appropriations process, making sure we can have the resources we need and they can continue to no thanks to president biden, making sure we coordinate through all three levels of government is critical and im happy to b...

Image David Reich is a Senior Fellow working on issues related to federal appropriations and the federal budget process. Reich was at the Center between 2014 and 2018, and left to become counsel to the Democratic co-chair of the congressional Joint Select Committee on Budget and Appropriations Process Reform. He worked for more than 17 years on the staff of the House Appropriations Committee, where he held a variety of positions including Committee Counsel and Democratic Staff Director for the...

Mark. you cant just have people go to the media with everything. intelligence officials may say that wouldnt be a safe way of doing this for people involved or for national intelligence purposes. so if they dont have a process, its not like normal people who can go to the media if something is wrong in their company. i if its a major corporation. >> thats right. absolutely. this is a tried and true process and weve seen it work in the past. so its critical for this to continue as well. and look,...

Did earlier this year back in march. i would just remind people that back then, we actually had what we thought was an agreement. we had an agreement between republicans and democrats in the house and the senate. republicans, including senator mcconnell, thought that president trump had signed off on it. but once we passed it here, the president pulled the rug out from everybody and shut down the government. so when youre dealing with a president who is so erratic and unstable in many ways, that...

Transcript here is interesting. and it is the discussion about somebody from the office in management and budget telling the state department that this money is being held up. congress approved that money. and congress was not given a reasonable explanation as to why there was a hold on this money. thats what youre taking issue with. >> well, thats right. there are different pieces to this, ali. one is just violations of the appropriations process. gao issued opinion back in 2018 saying that pre...

Off. you know, at the end of the day, this is kind of a seminal moment in the leadership of both mcguire and hasball. >> so you can, without defending the whistle-blowers actions or arguing that you think they did the right thing, you can defend the process by which a whistle-blower comes through. and i would imagine that hasball and all intelligence leaders should be able to subscribe to the idea that there should be a process by which people who see wrongdoing should be able to report it. >> t...

Wasnt in front of the cameras, and its important work. and by the way, such as intel committee, appropriations process, we headed toward a government shutdown because the appropriations process isnt going forward. add a couple democrats telling friends they cant support a bill because we cant work with you while we are in the middle of this. >> laura: you both agree, and i sensed this, some buyers remorse with the moderate democrats who voted for this resolution, the same ones who flipped distri...

We love the fact it was generally behind the scenes, it wasnt in front of the cameras, and its important work. and, by the way, such as intel committee, appropriations process, were headed toward a government shutdown because the appropriations process isnt going forward. i had a couple democrats telling friends they cant support a bill because we cant work with you while we are in the middle u of this. >> laura: you both agree, and i sensed this, some buyers remorse, some of these moderate demo...

Said i had come to understand well before then when the call was released, the summary of the call, that investigations was a term ambassadors volker and sondland meant matters relating to the 2016 elections and to investigations of burisma and the bidens. he wasnt made aware of the phone call between the president of ukraine and the president of the united states. didnt know about that until it was made public. more broadly in the inside he knew what investigations meant. it meant look into a c...

Before he called this bill clearly not a serious effort to make a law. total about-face. why? >> senate democrats are saying he relented because of their pressure. they brought up more money for election security multiple times on the security floor and theyve also brought up broader legislation to change the way states can deal with elections. major leader mcconnell doesnt want to federalize these elections. this is just more money. what mcconnells staff is arguing is, look, the majority leader...