At this point to go live to british Prime Minister theresa may. Shes speaking to the house of commons liaison committee. We believe we can achieve that in the overall relationship and we have put forward some ideas as to how that can be. Done. Were able to discuss those specific ideas. This is about no physical infrastructure. Surely Prime Minister, if it doesnt cover all goods, those that are excluded would then of necessity subject to checks and your commitment that you have given to there being no hard border, no checks, no controls could not be delivered. Either everything is in or everything isnt in. Its a very simple question about how this would work. It is a very simple answer. What we are going to deliver is no hard border. No physical infrastructure at the border. So then you cant confirm what it would cover. Can i move on now to timing. Now the Eu Commission has published this morning has said that the transition arrangement should last no longer than the 31st of december 20
They have a chart whereby they anticipate eu contributions ending in 1819 and domestic spending increasing in 201920 onwards. It seems to me from what you said that is not the right way to approach it with relation to eu contributions. I dont want to give the impression the legacy paying the money to the European Union is not the case. To the extent the financial settlements covers payments like that, we would be required to pay more with the member state, then provided in the budget forecast, it is not the case these sums of money are additional to that when it is baked in but the anticipated feature of domestic spending may not be correct that they might have to read in the future fiscal outlook, would you agree with that . This is a fiscally mutual approach so instead any savings made from not paying the European Union will be recast or recycled into domestic spending, we dont know how that expenditure will be used but as i say the sums are covered over this time or it will be of th
Most likely it will be weaker although again the eu has threatened of russia recognizes the upcoming elections, they will increase sanctions. So its going a lot of Different Directions right now. But if the sanctions are weakened in march, and there are lots of European Countries who are advocating for lessening the sanctions, including italy, hungary, luxembourg, a whole bunch of countries are being hurt themselves by the sanctions. So indeed it is a change in the sanctions policy, then putin wouldve succeeded in kind of pursuing this divide and conquer strategy that will give him more leeway in terms of how he deals with the eu. There are lots of different variables in terms of how you approach the ukrainian question. What about venezuela . Venezuela was a constant thorn in side of the United States partly because it would use its Oil Resources to prop up the cube and other countries. How does this decline affect venezuelas projection of influence . Its a great question. What we see
Im not sure the Justice Department requested information or if the irs offered it. Im not sure how the idea when you get in the format you ask for, it sure likes like you asked for it. Im not sure of the actual idea providing that information to the Justice Department came up four years ago, but it was provided after the meeting. Im just reading your testimony. She indicated someone else would followup, but that did not occur. Why did not occur . I dont know. You dont know . Let me give you a reason why i think it might not have occurred. This corresponds, this meeting took place on may 8th 2013. Do you know what happened . Yes i do. What happened . She gave a speech and talk about the issue. Yes. She explained to the whole world the irs was caught with their hand in the cookie jar and were target targeting conservative groups. That is what a followup did not occur. Two days before the very lawyer who met with lois lerner and got that data base. Two days before she goes Public Meeting