Have to have this deposition on a saturday in the first place and suggesting this is done to limit participation by members. now, republican weekends my understanding are in fact the same two days as democratic weekend are, so participation would be limited across the board. it s worth noting also of the roughly 100 members of congress who could go to any of these depositions they want, we do not see full participation even among those who are there. and thesedes at least start every day as staff conducted. that will not change here. it is staff counsel throughout both the republican and democratic sides who ask the majority of questions in thesedes. that too will not change on a saturday. one other question on taylor not taylor. morrison will be giving a deposition or testifying on thursday. michael fuks, he s mentioned a number of times in the taylor opening statement talking about
Great attorney general, highly p prestigious man, a very honorable man. joining me now gary hakke, ken dilanian, kimberley atkins, senior fellow and former deputy assistant secretary of state michael fuks. it is a pretty big headline to have john bolton testify in front of these committees. it will be if it happens. bolton s lawyers have been in touch to figure out a time and place in a manner in which this could happen. bolton is as close you could get to presidential decision making without being the president himself. his name has been invoked by several of these other witnesses. and of course he has a long history of government, in and out of government service i should say known for his very
This to the impeachment proceedings about the doj trying to investigate the investigators. if you don t get the answer you want from the inspector general report that s supposed to come out soon that was investigating the russia investigation and the senate intelligence committee report, which was released after three years of work here, and the work done by the intelligence agencies in 2016 and 2017, right, try and try again. and i think what s so dangerous about this right now is that the president is using all levers of government to go after his enemies. i work in foreign policy. i see this around the world. this the autocrats play book. he s doing it with ukraine. he s now trying to get the answer he wants by using the attorney general and the doj to go after his enemies. this is incredibly dangerous. what would an ambassador, a foreign ambassador working in the united states, what would their cable back home look like right now, michael? it s really shocking to even
And on top of that this is an arch conservative republican who as dpagary was pointing out aga has been in the midst of the circles. is the white house concerned if he does end up testifying, would they be concerned about his reputation and his credibility among other republicans, among donald trump s firewall in the senate and potentially the house? i think they very well may be. i m certain you will probably see them try to attack his credibility, just as they have with other witnesses in this if he does testify. but it presents a number of problems for all the reasons that you, garret and michael laid out. the top defense for president