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they were privy to, is potentially formidable. it includes former secretary of state, mike, who we first reported last night is expected to sit down with the house committee, perhaps soon as this week. also former treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, we have learned today that he has already been interviewed by the committee. sources also tell us that because uses are underway for the former national intelligence director, john ratcliffe, for a sit down with him. then there is former acting boss chief of staff, mick mulvaney, we spoke with earlier on the program. he was spotted on the way out after speaking with the committee today. mulvaney, as you know, was serving as envoy to northern ireland when the capitol was attacked and quit in the aftermath. steve mnuchin at the time was reported to have been involved about discussions to invoke the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. there is reporting from jonathan carl, who you will hear from shortly, is that ....
Fact that they were even raising this, as a possibility, think about what it means, you are removing a president because you are declaring him mentally unfit to be in office. now, we have learned subsequently from a junior 6 hearings testimony of cassidy hutchinson and others that there was real fear, that that option could be pursued. they were using that as a way to pressure trump to come out of finally to give a statement. sean henry in a tex i think to mark meadows, also said maybe kelly mick mcelhaney, i can t remember who the 25th amendment talk is real. obviously, it fizzled out. do you know how serious anybody was about it? the most serious a gut, as i was told, was mike pompeo actually asked a lawyer to explain how it all worked. they got to the point of at least looking into what the process would be. they pretty quickly realized it was not going to work. first of all, you had cabinet secretaries resign. you had devos, elaine chao, resign. ....
Taliban is beating women in front of a university in kabul today, just a measure of the way the taliban operate. you have coming up probably the first in what will be a series of difficult hearings testimony for u.s. officials. antony blinken on september 14th about the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. how are those hearings going to go? it s going to be tough. he s going to be making the case, look, it was 20 years, we will have just at the time he testified, we ll have just gone through the commemoration of the 9/11 moment, which is going to be a hard moment for the country, particularly it was going to be hard even before this, and this is going to make it all harder. he s going to make the argument that the united states is doing the right thing, staying another two years or five years, wouldn t have made a difference, that many on the committee, including many democrats are going to say, you may have done the right thing, but you didn t do it in a very smooth way. and i think t ....