Expressed doubts and defended the saudis, saying the prince hates the crime. Joining me now by phone is Washington Post opinion writer greg sargent, the one who spoke to schiff about all of this and also the author of an uncivil war, taking back our democracy in a age of trumpian disinformation and thunder dome politics. Thanks for joining the show, greg. First off, what exactly will this investigation entail, and who does schiff want to talk to . What documents does he want to see see . Tell us about it. Thanks for having me on. Representative schiff was appropriately circumspect about the details of what theyre planning to look at, but in general terms, he told me that they want to examine amongst many other things about the saudi relationship with the United States, what the Intelligence Community did in fact conclude about the murder. To be clear, he absolutely did not characterize what the intelligence has found. He refrained from doing that. But the reason that i think its import
Confirmed by the senate, his appointment is actually unconstitutional. We have seen this argument raised in recent days by legal scholars, including Kellyanne Conways husband george conway, but the Senate Democrats are the first lawmakers to take a crack at it. I want to read to you part of the Statement Issued from senator blumenthal, one of insenators who is part of this. He put out this statement saying in part, installing Matthew Whitaker so flagrantly defies constitutional law that any viewer of schoolhouse rock would recognize it. Americans prize a system of checks and balances which President Trumps dictatorial appointment betrays. Now, of course, the Justice Department would strongly disagree with this. Last week, they put out a very robust explanation of why his appointment is valid, is constitutional, and they point to an entirely different statute. The federal vacancies act, which allows someone who is above a senior level here at doj, who has been here over 90 days to take
The russian warship came within 50 to 100 feet of the u. S. Navy ship, as it was operating in International Waters off the coast of china. Now, the navy says this was an extremely dangerous move, and they produced the video to the public to show what happened. And just how close the russian ship came to the u. S. Navy warship. You can see it in this video. The russian Ship Operating extremely close. I mean, literally, it seems like the u. S. Sailors could have jumped onto the deck of the russian ship. One of the key indicators here is the wake of the russian ship that you see in the video. Navy sources are telling us this is the kind of wake you would see at high speed. The u. S. Navy ship at the time was trying to land a helicopter on its deck. And to do that, it has to maintain a steady course for the helicopter to land. But as the russian ship came so close at high speed up alongside of it, they had to wave the helicopter off. It couldnt land. And they put the ship into full reverse
inquiry strengthens their case in court. also, nadler told pelosi and others who were present that the impeachment inquiry could essentially centralizing all of the probes that are occurring in the house right now to his committee. freeing up those other panels to actually do their own legislative agenda and leave that part of the investigation to the judiciary committee, but he met pushback not just from pelosi but also adam sheff, the house intelligence chairman who has his own investigation he s launching. right now, it doesn t seem like it s changed the state of play, at least the most important opinion, speaker pelosi. at the same time, another committee is making new moves. inhouse oversight is saying it s going to be moving ahead with plans to hold the attorney general and the commerce secretary in contempt. why now, manu? that s right. over a separate probe altogether. this having to do with the zit zns question that was added to the 2020 census. democrats believe this is p
of those democrats going after whitaker, adam sheff said he believed whitaker was installed to run the justice department with the sole purpose of interfering in the russia investigation, and president trump shot back at that, misspelling adam schiff s last name with two letters they don t believe is a typo, also noting in the tweet that we have that the special counsel robert mueller was not approved by the senate. that s because, kate, that has been a big criticism from people like adam schiff, talking about matt whitaker because he wasn t confirmed to be the attorney general, even temporarily. of course, robert mueller is the special counsel. he s not a cabinet level official. he doesn t have to be confirmed by the senate, though he has been in his times at the fbi director. this is the president and adam schiff going back and forth as the president has with several other democrats in recent days who are growing increasingly critical of matt whitaker s appointment as the attorney ge