immigration. they want to talk about gun control. are those issues going to get lost in all that impeachment talks? in my town hall meeting, i made sure, and every democrat across this country, we want the american people to know we, the democrats in the house, have passed legislation for immigration for the dream act. we have passed legislation for reauthorizing violence against women. we have passed gun control laws for background checks, and they re sitting in mitch mcconnell s graveyard. literal le he is not conducting any business. so it troubles me when i what are the blanket statement, congress, you re not doing anything. we are. we are passing legislation. when we go back, we will fight the issue of prescription drugs. as a democratic caucus and for us, we are moving forward, but
that sentence that you pointed out, alisyn, legal adviser is a term, and the legal advisor is a high ranking person within the state department and that s a job that is always filled and so the fact that the acting legal adviser who is a high-ranking official initiated this process, you know, suggests that it is of some moment, but again, what it is, i i don t want to speculate. that s helpful context, thank you, jeffrey. can i also say it is the fact of his mission to congress that interests me also when in the state 24-hour period we learn that despite the efforts of mike pompeo, we re going to hear from kurt volker, the special adviser. did he try to block volker? i don t know that. he sent a blanket statement criticizing congress for getting these depositions or going after
department loses here. i think even a blanket statement of we got em, we re going to look at it, cooperate, would be helpful. elena, at the center of this is rudy giuliani. you spoke to him yesterday. is it clear to you what his strategy is assuming he has one? well, this is why rudy giuliani and trump make such a great pair. complementary pair in many ways. i can discern no media strategy whatsoever. a as the washington post reported earlier this evening, rudy giuliani was to speak at a security conference next week that was linked to the kremlin. putin would be in attendance. immediately after the report he told me he was no longer attending that conference, that he would no longer be speaking at it. when i asked why, he told me he had been informed by the reporters that putin had been there, despite the fact that it s listed on the website of
everything down. either way, i think the state department loses here. i think even just a blanket statement of, hey, we got them. we re going to look at it. we re going to cooperate with be very helpful. the center of much of this i rudy giuliani. you spoke to him yesterday. is it clear to you what his strategy is assuming he has one? well, anderson, this is why rudy giuliani and trump make such a great pair, complementary pair in many ways. i can discern no media strategy whatsoever. as the washington post reported earlier this evening, rudy giuliani was actually scheduled to go speak at a security conference next week that was actually linked to the kremlin. putin would be in attendance. and immediately after that report, he told me that he was no longer attending that conference, that he would no longer be speaking at it. and when i asked why, he told me it was because he had been informed by the reporters that putin had been there despite the fact that it s listed on the
activists on the ground, thousands of people that are descending on des moines, but this is no ordinary political season here in iowa. and all of these candidates are going to be talking from the stage, and i think that we ll be paying attention through the afternoon to see whether the message you just heard from joe biden is a similar message that they re delivering to the thousands of folks here in iowa. yeah, listen, vaughn it was extraordinary, the president i mean, the vice president, rather, former vice president, he responded at first with a blanket statement saying that he has never spoken to his son, hunter, about any sort of business dealings overseas. i mean, he did that, and then it all got to the attack mode on the president and trying to hold him accountable for the actions that he says are criminal in content. reporter: and pushing back. and you just heard, he was defiant that, as he said, the wrong question is being asked and that folks should not follow this rabb