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The testimony that george kent gave the committees already. and while the kent transcript that was released to the public today is 300-plus pages of fun just like ambassador bill taylor's was, it's fairly easy to see even in this lengthy document why the house might see these two guys, taylor and kent, as good first witnesses for the first public hearing to lay out the scope of what really happened. this is from the george kent transcript released today. quote, after having had these two conversations i wrote a note to the file saying i had concerns there was an effort to initiate politically ...

Quote, i know that's a question many of you are asking. why didn't anyone leave? god knows it would have been easy. we all have draft resignation letters in our desks or on our laptops. that's the half teasing half true advice you get on day one in the trump administration or immediately following senate confirmation. be sure to write your resignation letter. you may need it at a moments notice or less. some of us did consider resigning on the spot in the aftermath of the charlottesville, virginia, conflagration. quote, one journalist reported a cabinet member saying he would have written a re...

York times" explaining why the paper was taking this, quote, rare step of publishing an anonymous op-ed. "the times" said it had done so, quote, at the request of the author, a senior official in the trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. but then below that explanatory intro from "the times" the mysterious author just jumped right in, and it was as dramatic as you'd think it might be. quote, president trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern american leader. many of the senior officials in his own a...

Trump administration. indeed it was a hallmark take away of the report of the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. the president's efforts to influence the investigation were mostly unsuccessful, mueller wrote, but that is largely because the persons surrounding the president declined to carry out orders or recede to his requests, closed quote. this included white house counsel don mcgahn fired the special counsel, a request mcgahn what he feared would be a potential saturday night massacre and lead to president trump's impeachment. it probably would have....

Nsc staff were accustomed to producing long-winded classified memos. but if the aim was to educate this new commander in chief they couldn't submit a 50-page report entitled ent grated national strategy for endo pacific partnership and defense and expect him to read it and then discuss it. that would be like speaking aramaic to trump through a pillow. even if he tried very hard to pay attention, which he didn't, he wouldn't be able to understand what the hell he was hearing. it took a lot of trial and error for west wing stands to realize there needed to be a change. until that happened staffe...