doesn t know how long he s going to last. he paid a million bucks for that ambassadorship. but for career civil servants who aren t paying for their jobs they have an obligation to be honest. and there s a formal channel called the dissent channel in the state department that david holmes used in the obama administration to express concern about policy in afghanistan. so there are channels you can use, and you have an obligation to be honest about your concerns. well, in her opening statement dr. fiona hill today said that some politicians were weaponizing russian backed falsehoods and warned that russia remained a threat. the impacts of the successful 2016 russian campaign remains evident today. our nation is being torn apart. truth is questioned. our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being undermined. u.s. support for ukraine has been politicized. the russian government s goal is to weaken our country, to
it is now donald trump versus the honest people, that s according to esteemed washington journalist elizabeth drew. over the next three days nine more impeachment witnesses will testify publicly in the impeachment inquiry of donald trump. many of them will be career civil servants who are testifying out of a sense of duty to the constitution and the rule of law. these are the honest people donald trump cannot fathom. that is according to elizabeth drew, who writes in a new york times op-ed that these career district diplomats, quote, will endure only so much abuse or see so much scandal around them before rising up in some way. mr. trump made a big mistake by demeaning civil servants from the outset and then set about trying to make them irrelevant. but elizabeth drew also argues it would be a mistake for democrats to focus articles of impeachment narrowly on only his
again this is certainly a white house who is in a crisis mode here. there are divisions and a feud that has broken out between the white house counsel and the acting chief of staff mulvaney. mulvaney certainly has caught the president s iron last week press conference that he had in which he sort of owned up to the quid pro quo and said that it was a common occurrence. this is a president who, you know, has still been frustrated with the lack of support he s received from other republicans, including some yesterday. there were higher hopes in the building behind me for how the lawmakers would do trying to tear down these two witnesses. just go back to that for a moment between kent and taylor. these were not people you can categorize as never-trumpers or deep state operatives. thes public officials, career civil servants who have worked under republicans and democrats with impeccable reputations. those are hard people to scapegoat. and i think between the two
with chantix you can keep smoking at first misdemeanor. we have to tune in on friday to hear more of facts but all we and ease into quitting.x re, heard was opinions by career civil servants about a you ll be more ready to kiss cigarettes goodbye. difference of opinion, about the policy process. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, katie: i want to bolster dana s point about these people you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. who are working in government stop chantix and get help right away and they have to pay for if you have changes in behavior or thinking, attorneys. adam schiff puts these people s lives in a very difficult aggression, hostility, depressed mood, position in order to comply with suicidal thoughts or actions, seizures, the show that he s running. new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking, that s something juan: my god. or life-threatening allergic and skin reactions. dana: having to run stuff decrease alcohol use. use
himself. subpoena question in just a minute. but quickly let me ask you about another contrast that s emerging. and that is to christina s point, you have people who are loyal to the president. that s coming out in these transcripts. but then as you read what fiona hill had to say, what george kent had to say, these are people who have, have had for a long time, a real loyalty to this country and to the institutions themselves. there s a moment in fiona hill s testimony where somebody asks her and i m paraphrasing here, what did you think of donald trump becoming president? she effectively says i m agnostic. my loyalty is to the country. my loyalty is to the presidency. she s talking in terms that are in such stark contrast to what we re hearing from so many other administration officials. right. she personifies that class of experts, washington career civil servants. people whose expertise has built up over years and whose expertise the president has shown no regard for. when fion