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People inside the trump white house. why is this important? because the department of justice at the time, bill barr in early december is saying, there is no fraud. but president trump and others are trying to say there was fraud. they needed a figure leaf from the department of justice, somebody inside to give them cover, to try to overturn the election. so thats why this committee is looking at scott perry, the pennsylvania congressman. what was he really up to, to try to pressure the departme...

Opinion -- [ inaudible ]. is this a figure leaf, that they dont even feel it necessary to present a compelling argument? >> i think there are a lot of conservatives who agree with that statement. i think we all know and most people know that women and men have not reach equality, women of color have not reached equality. we saw this exact same thing when they gutted the civil rights act. we saw this idea that weve come so far so it doesnt matter, we can move forward. and i think its an excuse ...

West could things have been different? >> this is the heartbreaking part. it could have been so different. the international intervention was very flawed many many ways but the big flaw is we didnt negotiate with the taliban. in 2001 they wanted to surrender. donald rumsfeld said no. they could have joined the karzai government. in 2011 you see peace negotiations starting or talks about talks starting under obama. the u.s. isnt ready to negotiate. at that appointment, the taliban is making prett...

House. hes up for re-election. hes facing a primary, but that doesnt justify abandoning a decades old friendship and commitment to the truth. these are groundless allegations. every journalistic outlet thats looked into it has said theres nothing there, and for lindsey graham to do trumps dirty work and to create this figure leaf, this red herring of an investigation into joe biden and his son i think is going to tear apart the judiciary committee even further and will serve as a circ kusz or a ...

What does the united states get? really hard to say. absolutely nothing, other than the cementing of our status as an unreliable actor who doesnt keep their word, betrays their allies just like when we pulled out of the iran deal and the paris climate accords. and the figure leaf the president continues to hide behind nonsense kelley, hes bringing the troops home from combat to as war weary nation is a lie. u.s. service members have been relocated to iraq while hes sending thousands more to saud...

The ambassador? >> certainly the things he said in the phone call with zelensky and his pulling her out of ukraine early were dreadful things. she did a terrific job in difficult circumstances and there was no basis to any of the claims against her. >> have you heard any legitimate explanation so far about why the president, for that matter rudy giuliani, would want the ambassador out of ukraine? >> well, we dont know for sure. but there seems to be a fair amount of at least circumstantial evide...

Amount of at least circumstantial evidence that they wanted full-blown cooperation of the embassy to pursue this unfounded investigation into former vice president biden. >> and the figure leaf that they have been using, the idea that they -- the president and giuliani are really concerned about corruption in ukraine, i keep coming back to the notion that if president trump and giuliani were really concerned about corruption in ukraine, the president would not be using rudy giuliani as his point...

Out the political consequences. put their fingers in the wind and see which its blowing determination what to do. instead of determining the right thing. they are called not just lerpgts but oversight people who loo look at the president and keep him accountable. i dont think any can excuse one and just do the other. they have to do both. >> so let me ask you congressman dent, sis lynn inny the president sfroukted justice. anyone else would be indicted ar prosecuted. 900 former department prosec...

Loser for the president. >> $6 billion seized from the pentagon, an awful lot from the mil-con budget and a good question, any time we had base realignment and closure process, you could see members of congress, including myself, scramble, that would be a big political loser. john podhoretz, for donald trump, this is a no-lose situation. he gets to sign the funding bill to keep the government open and this is a figure leaf he can hold up so his talk radio handlers wont be attacking him over the ...

Pelosis office is involved in these conversations, although everyone will say its the conference committee. this is something immigration activists have been very concerned about all the way along, and frankly the enforcement policies of the trump administration have almost concerned those advocates more than the border wall. the border wall is sort of a figure leaf in a lot of ways and has become this kind of emotional symbol, but this kind of policy, and there a couple other things that would ...