done tonight before they get on those planes, right? scheme. this dynamic where they have to get the real public official, i think that detail may also go the technocratic person out of some distance toward dispelling any conspiracy theorizing about why they happened right now and the way so they can replace them not any other day. with someone willing to be part it looks like why they happened of the president s scheme. right now is because these guys according to this very important were about to leave the country. article today in the wall but if as rudy giuliani tells street journal trump and giuliani appear to have not only the atlantic magazine these done that with the u.s. guys were going to vienna, if ambassador, they appear to have done that inside the white house that s where they were leaving itself when it comes to military the country to go. aid to ukraine. if rudy giuliani himself was on according to the wall street his way to vienna, why vienna? journal they replac
get the real public official, the technocratic person out of the way so they can replace them with someone willing to be part of the president s scheme. according to this very important article today in the wall street journal trump and giuliani appear to have not only done that with the u.s. ambassador, they appear to have done that inside the white house itself when it comes to military aid to ukraine. according to the wall street journal they replaced career staffers inside the white house who worked on budget issues after those career officials raised concerns about the legality of the president blocking this military aid. quote, after career budget staff members questioned the legality of delaying aid funds to ukraine, the white house gave a politically appointed official the authority to keep the aid on hold. quote, after career staff began raising their concerns, political appointee michael duffy was given the authority for continuing to keep the aid
something he should have been talking about in public. and andrea, you and i have been cautioned by officials, it s possible this whistleblower misunderstood something they overheard. but look, these people are sophisticated, they re career staffers, as ned knows, it s not their job to complain when they disagree or they think the president is doing something stupid. it s only an issue when they see that national security is implicated, intelligence matters are being improperly disclosed. they know the definition of that and they were concerned enough to file a written complaint. ken dilanian, and ned, we have yet to see whether the congressional oversight will work as the whistleblower law says it should. thank you very much. to be continued. ned price, ellen nakashima, thank you for your reporting, we know how busy you are, and ken dilanian as well. meanwhile, catastrophic flooding in eastern texas, prompting evacuation orders for
authority to the executive, and now not even congressional intelligence committees can find out why certain people were given security clearances, why the president overruled career staffers. i m not saying congress should have the last word on who gets security clearances. obviously, any president has the right to build his or her team, but congress should certainly know what concerns exist and what grounds, under what grounds the president or anyone else overruled career staff in handing out security clearances. you know what? you ve just alerted me to the constitutional fact i should have had minded all these years past. the house, the winter games, the appropriations committee of the house have absolute power over all government spending, all government taxation. they could stop anything they wanted. they have stopped wars in the past. they could stop this administration in its tracks with its dirty dealing, and
some individuals as well as the atomic energy act which involves congress being involved in export ark exportation of energy. there were concerns here. they brought the concerns to legal advisers, to ethics advisers. multiple times they tried to shut this down. they said, stop pursuing this plan. but then it would repopulate itself by michael flynn pushing it, some of his deputies in the national security council as well as the external company bringing it forward saying, hey, we re going to lose our edge. so the big concern is the administration was pushing this through even though there were objections by career staffers, by other politicians, by the legal team saying you can t do this. you have to follow appropriate protocol. you can t just give out decisions and plans that you re