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Of the office, and certainly, when he had the power to make these documents declassified, one, it would still be owned by the u.s. government, but to, it would be political suicide to endanger national security publicly, and three, there is no evidence that he did it. >> i have to say, he doesnt get to the benefit of the doubt given his past behavior. i think that is just, from a pr standpoint, he doesnt deserve the benefit of the doubt when it comes to what he is doing with these documents. >> ...

Director clapper, just hours frr from now, the next talks between russia and ukraine will happen. president zelenskyy is willing to accept nonneutral status. how vulnerable would that leave ukraine and do you think putin would be open to that? >> well, actually, i mean, it sounds like zelenskyy is making a big concession and he really isnt. going back to the so-called budapest memorandum of 1994 where the neutrality, the spirit of which was the neutrality of ukraine was guaranteed. ukraine agree...

Substantively. there were a lot of reporters talking covid in uk. >> first of all i thought it was entertaining. his press conference was much more interesting than ours. i want to go into comparing him and trump. united kingdom is one of the most important allies. but there was a closeness there and it wasnt based on the ideologies of the leaders. it was based on history and shared values. i feel for prime minister boris johnson although he made an effort, maybe too much effort from a pr standp...

0 not going to come out with a set of deliverables and agreements on issues to tackle. usually the deliverables are planned in advance. >> there is an understanding we are going to try to arrive at this. >> not only am i relieved to see there is this person. the agenda, the main message i took was it is focused on tackling these major crises before the myriad of other problems that exist like iran and russia. if you can focus on climate change, massive issues, you can more easily tackle the othe...

Should we be worried about increased hesitation? because from a pr standpoint, emergent may not be a name that people are familiar with, but j&j, they sure are. >> thats right, alex. i think this may have a bigger impact on the global distribution rather than the domestic one, because j&j is made up not as big a proportion of the vaccines that are out there. moderna and pfizer have made the bulk of it. the concern is that the initial mis-hap said back production for moderna and johnson & johnson...

If it drags on, defense have to face to say what theyre gathering, whether its valid or not. >> on the one hand, the longer the evidence drags on theres always an opportunity togs uncor more medicine. but politically, from a pr standpoint, the longer the investigation drags on, the public may start thinking about what is this all about. especially in a case like this where the core facts are really driving this case fromac the beginning. and so far, the facts that have been uncovered have suppor...

Attempts by these folks. this is -- katy, as we know, this is what donald trump does, overexaggerates everything, whatever it is. and this is the pr head start that essentially the trump administration -- the president is getting, thanks to the fact that his attorney general that made this assessment. and this is where democrats are in a huge box here. were all taking bill barrs word for the -- clearly, robert mueller found troubling evidence on the obstruction question. because he could not com...

Lot. >> congressman connelly, you spoke to in the hearing yesterday. we learn today from the chairman of your committee, the oversight committee, that elijah cummings, that he wants to have all of the people that michael cohen mentioned yesterday in testimony appear before the committee. ivanka trump, who is mentioned, eric donald trump, allen weisselberg. what do you want to hear from them? >> i hope we will tread carefully about hearing or compelling testimony from members of the family. i thi...

There werent performances. my colleagues in the minority party, the republicans didnt do the sort of public castigating of michael cohen that they did so much of yesterday. but it was a very -- again, the chairman said this in his public statement today. it was a very, very fruitful hearing in which we learned a lot. >> congressman connelly, you spoke to in the hearing yesterday. we learn today from the chairman of your committee, the oversight committee, that elijah cummings, that he wants to h...

When it comes to it. so the dna evidence, to your question, thats not going to impact the analysis when it comes to whether or not r. kelly gets bail. again, bail is not punitive. it doesnt have anything to do with sort of the overarching elements of the case. i think it is a bad fact. it is a bad fact to have sort of from a pr standpoint and certainly when it comes to the merits of the case but i dont think it will impact the bail analysis here. >> caroline just said her take away from saras re...