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Are -- their policies, but more particularly with the president and his personal financial entanglements. there are things that are fine if you are a private citizen or private businessperson to have overseas financial connections. theyre not okay if you are running the government and the president of the united states. if you dont want to give up those connections, you should not be running the government, and he was unwilling to give up those connections, so it is completely reasonable for con...

The president about specific things, they come back and they say he had no idea what i was talking about. he had not read what was prepared for him. he had no really solid, smart questions to ask. what do we do about that? >> well, the best way to deal with anybodys shortcomings is to put better choices in front of them to make. >> how about just reading something? >> the thing that a good staff does, mike, and you know, the thing that a good staff does is put good choices in front of a decision...

Determination to get out of afghanistan at any cost this is becoming much more reality because since two thousand and one the taliban have wanted to negotiate directly with the united states and never got the opportunity to there were indirect talks in the doha artifice when it opened and in the years leading up to its opening in two thousand and thirteen but there was never direct talks up until this moment so the u.s. has a lot of. pressure at this point and they also have a lot of reason to g...

Elliot abrams intervention is the sides agree at least for 30 days not to kick out each others ambassadors. thats a sign that there is at least something constructive going on one final point, its so telling that there is no one in the administration who is capable of doing something like this. they have to go outside the administration and, gosh, bring in somebody who criticized them bitterly because there is such a lack of expertise, such a lack of competence in this administration that they h...

Government germanys evoque business confidence index has fallen for the fifth month in a row analysts predicted it would decline but its been falling faster than expected also germanys economic growth this year will be considerably lower than originally forecast according to fresh government predictions in its annual report out next wednesday the government says it expects germanys economy to expand by only one percent this year the divers link to join the lng exports which are pegged to the coo...

The second part of the question is why. why did they not have enough staffing. they were still able to keep the system going in the 80s. management had to do the jobs in a lot of cases. they were able to do that. why all of this is occurring has to be sorted out later. the immediate effect is someone made the determination they cant separate planes. thats their job. that is required for safety. you have to do this. >> thank you very much. we want to bring in a decision maker in congress on a lot...

Germany and hamburg, and of course those notes were not notes from -- verbatim notes of the meeting, they were what the interpreter uses as a memory jogger but it doesnt matter. president trump didnt know that. he was trying to cover up the content of his meeting with president putin. thats the more alarming thing that as president, he continued and almost escalated, because once youre a president, your loyalty is completely different. youve won. youre not doing business with russia. >> decision...

From oversight of the mueller investigation he wouldnt guarantee he would accept their recommendation. do you think he should take it? >> he has to use his judgment. you get a lot of opinions as a decision-maker. his most important decision now in this job is how does he release a report and how is the credibility established for the office of the president and the administration. >> lets talk about congressman steve king. why this week are republicans so distressed by his comments? hes said a l...

Before headed to private practice. later he served in the reagan white house in the office of policy development. following another stint in private practice, bill began his distinguished career at the department of justice under president george h.w. bush. bill served as the assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. then as deputy attorney general, and finally as attorney general of the united states. as attorney general, bill oversaw a number of sensitive criminal investigati...

But whether the president was acting with corrupt intent. and what i say in my memo is actually people dont understand what corruptly means in that statute. its an adverb and not meant to mean with the state of mind, but meant the way in which thefluencer obstruction is committed. what it means is using it in the 19th century sense, it meant to influence it in a way that changes something that is good and fit to something that is bad and unfit, namely the corruption of evidence or the corruption...