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But there are also some protections this morning that things are looking up and some prices are going down. joining me right now is mark sandy, the chief economist for moodys analytics. its very clear the white house has had this big spending bill will help control inflation. its also clear joe manchin doesnt agree. who is right? >> i would say neither. its neither here nor there when it comes to inflation, kate. this is about long-term economic growth. all else being equal, this should take the...

On july 29th, mr. duffey, a political appointee with zero relevant experience abruptly seized responsibility for withholding the aid from mark sandy, a career office of management and budget official, seized the responsibility from a career official. mr. duffey provided no credible explanation for that decision. mr. sandy testified that nothing like that had ever happened in his entire governmental career. lets think about that. if this is as routine as the president claims, why is a career offi...

Question. multiple officials including ambassador sondland, ambassador taylor, david holmes, lieutenant colonel vindman, jennifer williams, and mark sandy all testified that they were never given a credible explanation for the hold. so lets ask mr. blair. lets ask mr. duffey if this happens all the time as mick mulvaney suggests. why at this time in connection with this scheme or are all of those witnesses left in the dark? despite the presidents refusal to produce a single document, to produce ...

Sandy told his boss basically we need to talk to the lawyers. but in an unprecedented move, the political appointee, duffey, took control of the process away from sandy, the career official. both mark sandy and a pentagon official involved in discussions at the time testified to congress that they repeatedly expressed their legal concerns to duffey and urged him to talk to the general counsel, the lawyer, because they thought they were breaking the law. mark sandy also testified the two budget o...

Because as we said, the white house is not allowed to impound money. they cannot stop or redirect money appropriated by congress and they definitely cant do it without notifying congress. and these emails pried loose by the center for public integrity added to the congressional testimony we already have from budget and pentagon officials show that career officials across the government were freaking out that they might be breaking the law. the political appointee in the white house budget office...

On the very last day they were permitted to under the court order, sort of in the dark night on the friday before christmas. so this was not information the government wanted to turn over, and its aggressively redacted. it makes you think of the mueller report as you look through it with these large blocks of black. there is a lot more here that we dont know yet. >> yet there were key pieces of information that are quite valuable, including this email from duffey to the defense department. we ha...

Until the senate announces what kind of trial it has planned. senate republican leader mitch mcconnell called her position absurd, and the president weighed in with a crazy nancy tweet. but given that the impeachment articles do not appear to be leaving the house anytime soon and given that yet more evidence may come out in the weeks ahead, the standoff feels very unpredictable. what should we expect? joining us is congressman raja krishnamoorthi, democrat of illinois and a member of the house i...

This isnt information that the government produced. trump has famously said he wont respond to subpoenas. he might as well be advertising on a banner that hes engaging in obstruction of congress. these came through a freedom of information request by a small nonprofit newsroom. the government turned them over on the last day they were permitted to under the court order, sort of in the dark night on the friday before christmas. so this was not information the government wanted to turn over, and i...

Integrity that underscore and reiterate mark sandys testimony in the impeachment hearings. how big a deal are these emails? what do you think they tell us? >> i think theyre significant. heres why. all of us who are part of the depositions, who were part of the public hearings in the impeachment inquiry were of the understanding that on july 18th a full week before a hold had been placed on military aid and had been communicated to all of the heads of the departments at issue, state department, ...