before leaving warsaw this morning the president met with leaders from nato s eastern flank and reaffirmed their joint commitment quoting the white house here to, quote, stand with the ukrainian people for as long as it takes. vladimir putin was also alliance building, meeting with china s top envoy saying cooperation between their two countries is very important for, quote, stabilizing the international situation. russia wants weapons from china. the pentagon spokeswoman today warning, quote, it would certainly be a miscalculation of china to provide lethal aid to russia. president biden had a similar answer today when abc s david murer asked him. what s your message to putin on that? it s a big mistake, not very responsible. but i don t really think he s thinking of using nuclear weapons or things like that. he snled the opposite today suggesting it s a war of restoring the ocean russian and soviet empire, speaking at a concert marking tomorrow s defender of the fathe
its own subpoenas, which congress can t. if congress wishes to go down the road of trying to compel anybody to testify, they d have to go to the justice department and take everything to court and would be a more convoluted, complex legal process. so anything the justice department does is going to have more teeth in congress both in the way of subpoenas and bringing in anyone to testify. so, but i mean how likely is it the former president would try to invoke executive priv l, and how would that play out? certainly, he can. now, look, regardless of the fact that these individuals were the daughter and son-in-law of the president, they were still senior advisers to the president of the united states. some conversations that they would have had with the president aren t necessarily going to be protected on account of their role. setting aside why they were there how they got appointed and so on not every conversation is going to be protected. if they were talking about the hang mike
as a bargaining chip in order to get suspected nazis out of the country. what was happening was deportation and extradition is a very lengthy, complex legal process. doj was under a lot of pressure to get suspected nazis out of the country as quickly as possible, so they were making essentially deals, settlement arrangements with suspects and they would get the suspect to sign an agreement that said they would leave the country and they would revoke their citizenship in the exchange being because, again, the bar for losing your benefits is deportation, if you left the country voluntarily, your benefits could continue. the inspector general s report is expected to be released this week. it will not include names of nazi suspects who received benefits, although your report at least mentions a few, including a woman who received over $120,000 in social security