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A justice department official said of mulvaneys claims that the d.o.j. was involved, thats news to us. and seems like the president was left out of the loop, as well. >> are you aware he suggested a quid pro quo. >> somebody said he did a very nice job. you know what ive been focused on? i look at all of this and turkey and the great thing that happened in syria. mick is a good man. i have not heard anything about it. i have a lot of confidence. >> a source close to the president tells cnn, mulv...

Off-guard. jay sekulow said the white house legal team was not involved in the acting chief of staffs press briefing. a justice department official said mulvaneys claims that the d.o.j. was involved, thats news to us. and seems like the president was left out of the loop, as well. >> are you aware he suggested a quid pro quo. >> somebody said he did a very nice job. i look at all of this and turkey and the great thing that happened in syria. mick is a good man. i have not heard anything about it...

Legal team was not involved in the acting chief of staffs press briefing. a justice department official said of mulvaneys claims that the d.o.j. was involved, thats news to us. and seems like the president was left out of the loop, as well. >> are you aware he suggested a quid pro quo? >> somebody said he did a very nice job. you know what ive been focused on today? i look at all of this and turkey and the great thing that happened in syria. mick is a good man. i have not heard anything about it...

Got into a tizzy over this entire briefing and that she will not do in briefings herself. what is also clear in all of this is that the legal team, the presidents actual lawyers trying to defend him were also left out of the loop. thereon what jay sekulow said, the presidents legal counsel was not involved in acting chief of staff mick mulvaneys press briefing. there is always a pr push and a legal push. sometimes they work in can dumb, sometimes they are really doubling down on their pr push. a...

Tracks. and i did serve in the bush administration as a career civil servant and in the obama administration as an appointee and theres a way to do things and a way nod to do things. what this administration is going and undermining not just the institution and our norms and the constitution, but also our national security. and i think its important to point out look at what just happened with syria. essentially our diplomats have been cut out of the loop, our diplomats did not make decisions. t...

Was carrying out its policy towards ukraine. today lawmakers heard behind closed doors from michael mckinley, the former top aide to secretary of state mike pompeo. and according to npr mckinley during the closed door hearing criticized, quote, what appears to be our utilizeiation of our ambassadors oversees. he also said, quote, i was disturbed by the implication that foreign governments were being approached to procure negative information on political opponents. additionally nbc news reports ...

Cadre of people being put in positions to negotiate with ukraine were not allowing experts at the state department who have really spent their lives steeped in understanding what the interests are internationally to do their job. and they have really been put out of the loop. and that should distress all of us because it does affect our national security. >> mick mulvaney is reporting, quote, current and former officials said mulvaney contributed substantially to the unfolding political crisis. ...

Here. >> well, he is, and he seems to be simply, blindly following the president and taking his cues from the president. it may be that the vice president doesnt know much, and it wouldnt be the first time that a vice president is completely out of the loop on something important, but thats what we need to find out and thats why congress needs to get the facts and clearly the secretary of state was in the loop, knows all about it, but its blindly defending the president. >> so, doug, senator lin...

Investigated. barr also has been on a world tour trying to get to the origins of the russia investigation, asking other countries what intelligence they provided to the fbi about the beginnings of what became the mueller investigation. the secretary of state, hes on the world stage right now, he was on that july call with president zelensky and president trump where the president said i need you to do me a favor and brought up the investigations into biden. hes the one mike pompeo as you recall ...

Theyre trying to get information, whats going on, is the vice president exposed here? officials said pence and his staff werent aware that the call had provoked alarm inside the white house, even though his national security adviser had been monitoring it. its also not clear whether pence failed to read the accounts of the call in the briefing book or read it and found it unremarkable. the challenge for the pence people is he likes to say hes always in the loop. he did go meet with zelensky and ...