than national security or if names should be redacted that shouldn t be made public. jon: it is rare that the house of representatives does anything unanimously, and they basically unanimously voted to make the report public. i mentioned that the president says he agrees. here s what he tweeted about it. he writes: on the recent non-winding binding vote in congress, i told leadership to let all republicans vote for transparency. makes us all look good and doesn t matter. play along with the guam. it sounds like he s not too concerned about what this report might say. well, he s already, his team has already crafted a response to it, and it s approaching, i think, just under a hundred pages last time the president talked about it. i do think, obviously, he s concerned about it. but at the same time, this was a vote that was initially drafted, and i think democrats thought they were going to divide republicans, and republican leaders just said, listen, we re for transparency too. we
than national security or if names should be redacted that shouldn t be made public. jon: it is rare that the house of representatives does anything unanimously, and they basically unanimously voted to make the report public. i mentioned that the president says he agrees. here s what he tweeted about it. he writes: on the recent non-winding binding vote in congress, i told leadership to let all republicans vote for transparency. makes us all look good and doesn t matter. play along with the guam. it sounds like he s not too concerned about what this report might say. well, he s already, his team has already crafted a response to it, and it s approaching, i think, just under a hundred pages last time the president talked about it. i do think, obviously, he s concerned about it. but at the same time, this was a vote that was initially drafted, and i think democrats thought they were going to divide republicans, and republican leaders just said, listen, we re for transparency too. we
whitaker s ability to lead the attorney general is unconstitutional. they say it has denied each plaintiff the opportunity to cast a binding vote on whether to consent to defendant whitaker serving as a principal officer. senator plumblumenthal, whiteho and hirono are all part of the committee that appoints presidential nominees and whitaker skipped that process. the lawsuit lists multiple other problems with whitaker, including his public criticisms of the russia investigation. so let s start at the white house, with our correspondent there, kaitlan collins. and kaitlan, that the doj just last week issued a defense as to why they believe that whitaker s appointment is valid. is that the same defense that the white house is using today? reporter: it is the same defense. and that s what they re arguing. and we ve seen president trump take his own route here by saying, well, matt whitaker s not confirmed by the senate, but neither was the special counsel, robert mueller, even though, o
we did last week, it passed 88-11. it was nonbinding, but i don t think we could have passed a binding vote last week. i think we will be able to do so, however, in the coming weeks. but i do think that it s time for the congress as a whole as a body, certainly the senate, to express its support for the intelligence community. do you think that is enough, though, to get through to this president? do you think somebody does need to get through to him? after all, dni dan coats sounded an alarm last week over the weekend before this latest statement that he sent out. over the weekend he sat down with cbs and says he doesn t know if he believes dan coats, he doesn t know if he believes that assessment. today the dni came out with another very strong statement. is it enough just to say we believe in the intelligence community to get through to this president? like i said, we can do what we ve done before. if the president refuses to impose new sanctions or to treat russia differently, w
but it is a good idea in some respects to our own interests, trying to keep these areas stable. is it a good idea to pull money out of these countries? that is the right question. the trump administration listens to what measures it will take. egypt is an interesting case because the egyptians did not initiate this resolution, it was initiated by the turks and yemen but egypt is an interesting example because they are on the security council, for all the talk in the media about how this isolated the united states, after the nonbinding vote in the morning in the general assembly there was another vote in the security council. a binding vote that egypt was involved in that was on a us resolution involving international security against foreign terrorist fighter that