To mueller. you can dove tail on obstruction. you may lose votes. are you worried if you reach back to mueller you may lose votes? i don t know how listing more crimes loses votes. under nixon articles of impeachment it lists four instances in which he obstructed. this president obstructed four times in one day. by with holding documents. keep it to ukraine. don t go beyond that or will you lose it? i haven t heard people tell me that personally. it s easy to add into an article that includes obstruction. the one that a special counsel mueller referenced. he rarely talked to the press. he came back and said in a press conference that he didn t exonerate the president. he said he s leaving specifically the articles involving obstruction to the congress to react. if it wasn t for the fact he wasn t allowed to indict the
Emily: craig, you ran the public affairs campaign supporting president bush in operation dessert storm. tell us about the restraint he exercised after securing kuwait. though were those that called for him to move on to baghdad. but at that time there was no authority for that from nato. that s right. he honored that share with the viewers your experience there. well, you bring back a lot of memories here. he believed in consensus. he wanted to get the world s consensus. he wasn t going to act unilaterally to oust kuwait even though by all rights he could have. he got the u.n. charter. he got many of these nations in the world as possible to support it mandate to get saddam out of kuwait but don t go beyond that border. he was perfectly happy not happy but he was satisfied to do that and not go beyond because he wasn t going to violate his agreement with the other nations of the world.
Answered the questions more accurate accurately there are a lot of issues that are raised. washington, it s always the cover up. there s no crime in meeting with an ambassador so why didn t sessions tell the whole truth? we need to know was there anybody else at this meeting? was there a paper trail? e-mails? this is the beginning of an investigation and sessions would do well to be as forthcoming as possible. he needs to not just submit a written statement but to get in there and answer questions. we understand there will be questions he is to answer but paul how specific does he need to be? he s an attorney, many attorneys will say only the question that is given, don t go beyond. is this a case in which he needs to go beyond the question to give more detail? way beyond. the problem with his original
Class and they have a very different conception of the kind of information they deserve and the kind of recognition that their sacrifices deserve. a generation ago people died in china in very large numbers. 171,000 people died, for instance, in a single cascade of dam collapses. today you have this was in the 70s. in 1975. today you have a group of people, 154 passengers and their families now, who are demanding information about what happened. they re asking their own government. they re asking the chinese press. and of course they re asking the malaysian government. the youngest person on board that flight, describe that family. his name is wong moa hung. he was just shy of his second birthday. his father worked for the boston consulting group, mother worked in the technology business before she decided to stay home and raise their children. they come from a very specific part of the chinese middle class and that is afrom a generation raised to believe you can go online, you can find out what s happening. the chinese press was told don t go beyond the state media reports, don t analyze, don t provide commentary, and the chinese middle class is not satisfied with that.
The nsa was necessarily going rogue here but that the white house understands it needs better guidance on policy priorities so they don t go beyond what the president approved of or was aware of. how concerned are u.s. officials about the diplomatic repercussions of this? they are very concerned. you have a delegation from the eu speaking about these issues. i spoke to one member who said that people in european capitals are confused and fearful of this kind of spying so they want explanations. i spoke to a former u.s. official who told me the u.s. has listing posts in these countries and they are called diplomats. people to speak to their counterparts. and this is the kind of information those countries want to share. it s about fighting terrorism. that s the much better way that officials inside the administration say, going forward, to gather this kind of information. and, jim acosta, the white house has to contend with a disastrous rollout of the obama care website.