you ve got rod rosenstein who is a career guy and william barr who obviously is the attorney general and confirmed by the senate, why is there judgment not enough. you would think it would be to experienced professionals and rod rosenstein no doubt was familiar with what special counsel is doing as they probably had a heads up on some of the facts all along, but their political appointees. i think that at this stage of the game, there s going to be questions about why did mr. moeller not reach a conclusion on whether or not the president should be prosecuted on the questions of obstruction. you probably would have had to have been sequestered in a treehouse the last couple of years not to believe that this now becomes heavily political. the congress is going to seek to bring all of this data into the public sphere. they will probably ask
manafort was indicted. why was he reaching out to members telephone administration, and is it possible, for instance, that maybe he was seeking a pardon. the documents don t say that, but obviously that s been a question on the top of everyone s minds as they wonder what manafort could have talked to the administration about. let s talk about barr today. he was pretty plainspoken. did the guy we saw today match up with what he wrote in that controversial unsolicited memo to trump s lawyers? i think people were more surprised going into these hearings by the controversial memo. i think people who have worked with william barr in the past, people who have known him over the years expected him to be the kind of plainspoken family guy, sort of career guy that you saw in this hearing today. i don t think that they expected this would be a person who was going to be eviscerating the idea that mueller could bring obstruction of justice, an obstruction of justice investigation and then sha
why was he reaching out to members of the administration? and is it possible, for instance, that maybe he was seeking a pardon? the documents don t say that, but obviously that s been a question on the top of everyone s minds as they wonder what manafort could have talked to the administration about. let s talk about barr today. he was pretty plainspoken. did the guy we saw today match up with what he wrote in that controversial unsolicited memo to trump s lawyers? i think people were more surprised going into these hearings by the controversial memo. i think people who have worked with william barr in the past, people who have known him over the years expected him to be the kind of plainspoken family guy, sort of career guy that you saw in this hearing today. i don t think that they expected this would be a person who was going to be eviscerating the idea that mueller could bring obstruction of justice, an obstruction of justice investigation and then sharing that administration w
you. i m not sure that s a super strategy when you re announcing. bring him later. like, which guy? i will introduce you later. surrogate maybe. you have been a career guy. as you listen to all of this, what s of paramount interest to you? i would tend to focus on what these emerging candidates say about national security. i understand fully that s not likely the set of issues our next president is most likely elected. what i look forward with these candidates is seriousness, have they invested the time to get smart on issues putting themselves forward as potential presidential candidates. have they done work in the congress as senators or representatives and do they have a voice on national security issues? gabbert is an interesting case. she deserves credit serving her country in military war zones. no question about that. at the same time, she s taken
we had a big freshman class. the leaders of the party, jerry ford could not overlook. there were a lot of votes there, and they were very pleasant to us, and so we just worked within the we weren t renegades. we weren t bomb throwers. but it was a good experience. i loved the house. the nixon white house wanted me to come in as a special counselor, but i didn t want to do that and i knew that he didn t nixon didn t like the guy that was there, his representative at the united nations, a guy named yost. a career guy, a very nice man, but part of what the deal in new york was to representing the president s views and the new york establishment. and so i said to his staff, rather than that, i d love to do this other.