at the same time it highlights like you pointed out this rift in sort of this diversions perhaps of interests between your traditional george w. bush style republicans on capitol hill and president trump who seems to be sort of going his own way, doing things his own way and kicking his heels up a little bit. yeah, and he seems to be on both the tariffs and the announcement on north korea, gabe, you know, following his impulses i guess is the most sort of charitable way to describe it. what s so troubling to many people close to the president is that these two develops significant policy decisions were made outside of the policy making process. there was not buy-in from the relevant stakeholders. we saw just yesterday morningrism tillerson said there would not be talks with north korea. and what did we have at the end of the day, a very dramatic white house announcement that donald trump had agreed to sit
may investigate things. i think part of the problem is, there are no adults in the room. on the executive side or on the legislative side. so there s no one be really putting the feet to the fire to make the republicans in the house real follow through in these committees. the democrats are trying. i think we re not going to see any movement till actually after the midterms. and if the democrats take over the house, really forward movement with these committees to have some sort of success with all of the scandals. we don t have time to list all of the different scandals that are currently going on this particular white house. sam, you re nodding your head. yeah, i agree. in fact, i wouldn t even go as far as saying it s not a question of there s no adults in the room. there are adults. it s just that their incentive structure is such they have no incentive to pursue this white house whatsoever. this is the same dynamic why every single republican elected official who is not resign
the president s attorney pushes back on this idea. the headline was trump s lawyers seek deal we lawyer tore seek end to russia probe. the most comical nugget was the idea of trading an the president s availability for a date certain deadline to wrap up the investigation. do you think that s going to fly? well, the fact that you found it amusing is sort of gives a sort of answer to the question. look, federal investigations don t end by negotiation on timelines for interviews with subjects of the investigation. that s not how it works. the mueller investigation will end when bob mueller s done. and the president, short of the ability to fire him, in has really no ability to control that. it s not up to him. no matter what he thinks. and so his lawyers certainly have some leverage to you know,
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project developing a ferry service that would bring passengers to the doorstep of a resort co-owned by none other than jared kushner, the president s son-in-law who along with solving middle east peace has been known to advise his pops on infrastructure. the federal transit administration has been advising the town of long branch with the project which as the a.p. notes places the federal government in the awkward position of lep steer a project that would benefit trump s son-in-law. since the value of those condos co-owned by kushner could rise as much as 50% if the project is completed. and given kushner s role advising trump on policy issues ranging from middle east peace to infrastructure, some question whether those small town business ties now pose a conflict of interest. rebuilding america, one kushner project at a time.