america bridge and former staffer with the house intelligence committee. mika, let me start with you. it seems to me that the house intelligence committee as chaired by adam schiff s response to the unhinged eight-page letter we re not going to give you anything is okay fine, we don t need it. am i reading that right? i think adam schiff has a plan for how he will gather the evidence he needs and he s going to stick that to and the white house refusing to answer and provide witnesses is something he s pushing through. he has other witnesses scheduled to come friday and other people in the state department that are clearly concerned about what was happening and the president has been revealing evidence both while standing on the south lawn of the white house and releasing it in transcript form and rudy giuliani is waving it around on television. there is a lot of information out there and the president admitted the conduct in question. you know, my we saw for nine months white hou
slightly different. i think those words provided clarity for those of us who are trying to under what he meant in that report. and i think that that s the reason why it is important to get that testimony. i know he doesn t want to do it publically perhaps because of the political spectacle of it. i think it is important for members of congress to hear from him. so there is some way for perhaps to be private testimony and then of course that would be released in transcript form. i think it is incumbent upon members of congress to hear that. he made it clear he doesn t even want to do that. i think he understands it is more useful to democrats for there to be public testimony because every television screen will be tuned to what robert mueller has to say. one of the reasons you are seeing things that will break the fact check machine. most public statements from the president s tweet and sarah sanders are much more measured.
the jury is having trouble getting organized, walking through this 24-count indictment which is rather complicated, some overlapping charges, overlapping instances and accusations. and he suggested that if they asked for this again later on, it really does mean they re having trouble getting going and understanding what the charges are, that he might give them both the prosecution s and the defense s closing arguments in transcript form. and as you say, chris, governor blagojevich, former governor blagojevich is not here today, he has waved his right to be present when the jury comes in with questions. he is at home, last night we re told he watched the chicago cubs lose to the houston astros, today he hasn t ventured out of the house, we re not sure what he s up to. way we want to take you back to arizona where the protests continues following the judge s ruling yesterday, that did away