Hold a conference on capitol hill to talk about energy priorities. She will also take questions from reporters. She outlined her plan at the annual meeting of the National Association of regulatory utility commissioners. Here is a bit of what she had to said. In our report, we declare five principals in addition to energy i am trying to make this release symbol for everybody for the morning fog of monday. Energy is good and then there are five principles. It is in our National Interest to make energy abundant, affordable, colleen, diverse, and secure. I have even put them in alphabetical order for ease of memory. [laughter] no acronyms this morning, alphabetical is good. Lets talk about abundance as a standard of living rises, demand will continue to rise and anyone who has experienced a black out, it is amazing how this blackout last out last night ties into everything i have to say this morning. [laughter] anyone who has experienced a super bowl black out or a gasoline shortage does
Is the mid summary of where we are on the russia investigation where we have been teaching us every night and leading us. Watching you lead the discussion with david and Michael Isikoff about their new book. This was a, lets stop, collect our thoughts and catch up to where we are, it summarized everything powerfully. Thanks. Im just reporting on whats in their book. I think there is something useful, because this scandal has been going on for more than a year now. The investigations have been going on for a year now. And the intensive pace of reporting on the stuff has been going on for so long that its changed our feelings about what counts as a scoop anymore and how frequently we expect them that one of the things theyve done, thats going to make the book successful, they have sint sized a ton of information, terms putting it in importance, what were the important moments when did people come along that the important. Connecting the dots is more valuable than almost any individual pi
Where we are, it summarized everything powerfully. Thanks. Im just reporting on whats in their book. I think there is something useful, because this scandal has been going on for more than a year now. The investigations have been going on for a year now. And the intensive pace of reporting on the stuff has been going on for so long that its changed our feelings about what counts as a scoop anymore and how frequently we expect them that one of the things theyve done, thats going to make the book successful, they have sint sized a ton of information, terms putting it in importance, what were the important moments when did people come along that the important. Connecting the dots is more valuable than almost any individual piece of information at this point. Its hard to do on a daily basis, but i think theyve done the first book that takes a crack at it. We have the 2018 cast of characters, 2017 cast of characters, but there was a 2016 cast thats fascinating, which is the Obama Administra
Fighting. We can bring certainly most of our people back home for the first time in many years. Simultaneously, a Big Development in the impeachment inquiry with the testimony of Ambassador Gordon Sondland telling house investigators that President Trump delegated American Foreign policy on ukraine to his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and sondland saying giulianis goal was to involve ukraine in the trump reelection bid. Then amid all these escalating controversies, chief of staff Mick Mulvaney announcing that the g7 summit will be held at President Trumps doral golf course. Setting off ethical alarm bells. But mulvaney also said the partly to get them to investigate democrats. A statement that directly undercuts trumps claim that there was no quid pro quo. We actually did an analysis of what other countries were doing in terms of supporting ukraine. What we found out was that i cant remember if its zero or near 0 from any European Countries for lethal aid. They are really stingy when i
Yovanovitchs lawyer walk in. When this deposition starts up, and we expect that it will at this point, lawmakers have a lot of questions. They want to know what yovanovitch knows about this influenc we know from the evidence that exists in the Public Record that she is one of the former state Department Officials who raised a lot of concerns about the work that giuliani was doing outside of official state department channels. That is precisely what led to her ouster. Giuliani sent a pact of misinformation to the state department which house investigators have now released to the press. President trump referred to her as bad news before recalling her from her post in the ukraine. She spent the last several months here teaching at georgetown. Shes still a state Department Foreign service officer. When she shows up here, theres a big question as to whether or not shes doing it with the approval of the state department. Because earlier this morning we learned that ambassador Gordon Sondlan