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Host joining us on newsmakers is Ellen Weintraub. She is the chair of the federal election commission. Joining us here for the questioning is Maggie Severns, reporter for politico. And michelle ye hee lee, who covers money and politics for the Washington Post. To both of you, thanks for being with us. Chairman weintraub, thank you for joining us. Let me begin with the enforcement mechanism that the fec has. You do not have a quorum. You do not have a majority. So what type of authority, what type of power do you have in enforcing fec laws . Chair weintraub well, the laws will be enforced, they...

Abuse of power founders had in mind when they dropped the impeachment clause of the cause edition . Atty. Gen. Barr you put so much work into that question. [laughter] there is this political constitutional process underway. On the hill. The attorney general is not part of that process. I am just not going to comment on it. Otherill say that on the articles of impeachment relating to obstruction, i dont believe somebody case where including a branch of government is asserting a legal privilege that that constitute subsection. Atty. Gen. Barr President Trump directed the unprecedented defiance ...

This is young by chairman of the board of directors of who i weigh thank you so much for being on our program. Or your friends im happy to be here today to talk to you. So who are always in the midst of a bitter trade war between china and the United States of america are you running scared by the end of this year a woman who are not concerned that the u. S. Governments decision to add while weight to the entity list has just created a lot of extra work for us that i wont be should we have had to redesign some of our products and make sure our supply chain can continue to deliver products to o...

Enforcement. It is unfortunate we dont have a quorum. It is inexcusable, in my view. We had two commissioners who resigned, one two years ago, another almost two years ago. Those seats were never filled. Host why . Chair weintraub i dont know. That is something i have no control over. The nominations have to be made by the president and confirmed by the senate. I think it is inexcusable that those nominations were not made. It is easy to get over the long vacancies. We should have never been in this situation we found ourselves in. We are down to a quorum of four. Another commissioner decided ...

Illusions that if they do something now because of a lack of quorum, there will not be any enforcement. It is unfortunate we dont have a quorum. It is inexcusable, in my view. We had two commissioners who resigned, one two years ago, another almost two years ago. Those seats were never felt. Never filled. Host why . Chair weintraub i dont know. That is something i have no control over. The nominations have to be made by the president and senate. It is easy to get over the long vacancies. We should have never been in this situation we found ourselves in. We are down to a quorum of four. Another...