Rt that connects flynn to russia and Vladimir Putin himself. This follows the charge made by the leade of the House Oversight committee on tuesday of this week that flynn never got th permission required to accept that foreign income, nor did he disclose it in renewing his security clearance in 2016, which is required by law. The ranking democrat on that committee, u. S. Congressman Elijah Cummings now wants to know what the trump transition and the Trump White House new about flynns failure to properly disclose those payments and when they knew it. Today, u. S. Congressman cummings accused the mouwhite house of obstructing, threatening to use a subpoena to get documents. These guys are playing games. When you see mr. Spicer, you can tell him i said that today. Theyre playing games. They have told us they have documents, and then they said executive privilege. Then they said some of them are before the inauguration. If we cannot come to a conclusion there and get the documents, then th
What the intention was there and whether thats an offense. Paul michael served as the 81st attorney general of the United States under george w. Bush. Judge, welcome. Good to be here. Paul lets focus first on whats the appropriate behavior for a Senior Justice Department official like the fbi director in interacting with the president of the United States because when you go into the oval office its intimidating thing, i guess. How was he supposed to behave when the president pulls him aside and says Something Like he said with by Michael Flynn . The same way he would behave any place else. Yes, the oval the idea of the oval office is intimidating, he may be in fact, intimidating for the first few times youre there, for the first 15 minutes. [laughter] if youve been the u. S. Attorney in two districts f youve been the Deputy Attorney general f youve been for a number of years, the director of the fbi and youre intimidated by being in the oval office, youre in the wrong job. Paul how sh
Understand what the intention was there and whether thats an offense. Michael mukasey served as the 81st attorney general of the United States under president george w. Bush. Judge, welcome. Good to be here. Paul so lets focus first on whats the appropriate behavior for a Senior Justice Department official like the fbi director in interacketting with the president of the United States . Because when you go in to the oval office, its intimidating thing, i guess. How is he supposed to behave when the president pulls him aside and says Something Like he said with Michael Flynn . The same way he would behave any place else. Yes, the idea of the oval office is intimidating and maybe in fact intimidating for the first few times you are there. For the first 15 minutes. [laughter] if you have been a u. S. Attorney in two districts, if you have been the Deputy Attorney general, if you have been for a number of years the director of the fbi and youre intimidated by being in the oval office, your
You want to. Just so you understand, theres been no collusion whatsoever. Theres no obstruction whatsoever. You have a date set, mr. President . I dont know. No. I guess youre talking about two, three weeks. I would love to do it. In person . I have to say, subject to my lawyers and all that but id love to do it. Would you do it under oath, mr. President . Like hillary who said that . Would you do it under oath . You did say it. You say a lot. Did hillary do it under oath . I think you have an idea. Wait, do you not have an idea . You douu really dont have ani . Ill give you an idea wyou would . She didnt do it under oath. If you didnt know about hillary, youre not much of a reporter. Are you going say it . You would do it under oath . I would do it under oath. You think Robert Mueller will be fair to you in this larger investigation . Were going to find out. Were going to find out. Are you concerned heres what well say. And everybody says. No collusion. Theres no collusion. Now theyre
Point. Live from West Palm Beach, florida, inv the weather where you are. Not far from the winter white house. It is not 17 degrees there i understand. Thats about it, thats whats going on. Its about 60 degrees warmer, ridiculously beautiful day. No wonder the president spends time down here. When he returns to washington, d. C. , according to the white house there is going to be infrastructure spending. Democrats say they are willing to work with the white house and republicans to put together an infrastructure package for congress to work on but the outlines of that are still unclear. Its unclear if House Republicans and Senate Republicans or enough of them will support hundreds of billions of dollars in additional spending and where all that money is going to come from. Those questions, i guess will be tackled in a couple of weeks when the president hosts the congressional leadership. It House Speaker paul ryan, Mitch Mcconnell, at camp david they will discuss those 2018 legislative