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Affairs subcommittee hearing on protecting whistleblowers at the v. A. We are going to take a look at a very busy week here in washington with our two guests. One of them is the White House Reporter for the l. A. Times. Morning. We also say good morning to Siobhan Hughes. Good morning to you. I want to start with the mueller hearings which happened on wednesday. They will be on cspan3. I wanted to hear from jerry nadler. He was asked why he is putting Robert Mueller through a congressional hearing. We want them to your directly from special counsel mueller what his investigation found. The president has spent the last few months systematically lying to the American People about what the investigation found. They said it found no collusion, no obstruction, tha ....
Reporter for the wall street journal. Good morning to you as well. Lets start with the new large hearings which will happen on wednesday live on cspan. To will get each of you weigh in but we want to hear from jerry nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on fox news and was asked why hes putting Robert Mueller through a congressional hearing. [video clip] we want the American People to hear directly from special counter mueller what has investigation found. The president and attorney general and others have spent the last few months systematically lying to the American People about what the investigation found. They said it found no collusion, it found no structure and, it exonerated the president all three of those statements are absolut ....
So i said, a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titles are no good. All right. So at any rate, i sent out so we wanted to find out what officials thought of us ordinary americans. She said, well, thats kind of interesting, but she said, Everybody Knows that ordinary americans are a bunch of idiots. Why do you need to do a surve ....
With . Prof. Ginsberg absolutely. This is a true story and those who live in washington have probably heard versions of the story. I was at a dinner party and sitting next to me was a pretty senior hhs executive, someone whom i have known for a long time, very nice person. And she said to me, well, what are you writing these days . So i said, a colleague and i conducted a survey of washington officials. Because everyone is always surveying americans to see what they think of washington, we said, lets survey washington to see what it thinks of america. So we surveyed officials and what i will call members of the policy community, that is the contractors, who often are interchangeable with officials, people who work in think tanks, everyone involved in developing rules and regulations. So i said, we want to see what they thought of americans. In fact, my original title for this book was what the government thinks of the people. But publishers never like my titles, they always say my titl ....
Week ahead in washington three after that, Benjamin Friedman of defense priorities looks at the latest tensions between the u. S. And iran. Plus phone calls and tweets. Washington journal is next. Host morning. Its monday, july 22 and its going to be a busy week on capitol hill as members of the house and senate prepare for the august break spending and the debt ceiling front and center. A new defense secretary is on the way. Final work on the 9 11 Victims Compensation fund and of course the Robert Mueller hearings which happen wednesday. President trump meets for the first time with the new Prime Minister of pakistan. And there are many many more headlines over these past few days about the heated lyrical rhetoric here in washington and what it means for t ....