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Heard just there. mark meadows has a new book coming out. the publisher says this about the book. the chief known as the chief around the west wing, telling the harrowing story about how he and a close team of advisers helped president trump bring the country back from a brink of catastrophe. he pulls back the curtain. begs the question, why cant meadows pull back the curtain for the committee? meadows is no shrinking violet, seen here on his book jacket, standing behind trump looking like clint...

Earnest by the book attorney found great success for herself and her client. she was by all accounts a workaholic who loved what she did. no shrinking violet either. melissa love those boozy splash-y office parties just as much as the other lawyers. she had found herself a nice slice of the american pie. and thats the third about 38-year-old melissa lewis. even as she raised her voice and glass with the senior partners, her said and wasnt far off. and her unexpected death would get caught up in ...

>> if the facts lead us there and our investigators say its in their best interest, well look at it. im not a shrinking violet. the other eight members of this committee so far, they want to get to the bottom of what happened. i was in the gallery, chris. it was not a good day. all of the film that we show, none of it has been doctored. this is actually what occurred on that date. and so we have to make sure that we protect the citadel of democracy from this. the other thing is i hope we can get...

Barr, of course, famously is no shrinking violet whatsoever when it came to defending some of the most controversial moves that the trump white house and the trump doj made, that just about everyone else agreed were dramatically encroaching on the justice departments independence. if barr doesnt want to defend something the doj did, that means you got a problem. now, he narrowly was speaking about this issue of subpoenaing two lawmakers records when he didnt speak about more broadly was the wide...

And his party? great debate to be had. two former republican congress men, charlie dent and sean duffy. first, merry christmas to you and your families, thank you for being on the show. >> merry christmas. >> charlie, push back on the idea that it means nothing, of course he made a mistake to say he was partial, its easy to say this process should be fair. but your party is locked in. where is there any proof that thats false? >> i think we should take lisa murkowski at her word. i think shes se...

Shrinking violet. shes beaten back right wing challenges before. when she was primaried, she turned around and beat the guy as an independent. so she knows how to fight. and i think that she can move some other members. so, she clearly wants a fair trial. well see whether theres daylight at the end of the day between her and the president, but i think she sent out a warning shot. >> its not about murkowski for me, its about the duffeys for me. there are so many more of people with your mindset w...

Consistent. and interestingly, according to "the washington post" reporting, including by rachel bade who, of course, is a colleague of sorts here at cnn, behind closed doors in the senate, last wednesday, republicans got together and among others, it was ted cruz who is no shrinking violet and not a dummy who said, wait a minute, if his motive was one of protecting american taxpayers and tax dollars and not his own re-election, then theres no harm, no foul here. so i think they get it. frankly,...

Scriptures he would draw on his high moral calling. and thats how he would challenge us to be better than that. thats how he used when we were dancing with the angels -- he said when were dancing with the angels what and how will we answer the question of how we protected democracy. buts his faith was his guidepost. and i will say his love for his wife, and she was no shrinking -- she is no shrinking violet. he supported her for everything she wanted to do and she supported him for everything he...

Have artie taken the giving pledge to give over half a million to good causes while i am alive. i believe in a much more progressive tax code and introduced a wealth act a year ago. i do not believe that we should stop the free enterprise system. i dont believe that we can have a prosperous growing innovative competitive economy without a private sector. im somebody who understands that if we are going to grow, we have to rely on the innovation of the private sector. and we have to change some t...

Presidents. but in many ways donald trump is the outlier at these sorts of summits now. the g7, nato summits. because he just strikes a very different tone than the rest of his counterparts on the world stage. also he just has a different point of view when it comes to trade, when it comes to russia and these national security issues. the iran nuclear deal for example. the president made a very abrupt political decision as he came into office to pull out of the paris climate accord, to pull out ...