appropriations committee. he says he is not sure he will vote for this bipartisan package, and let me just start where things are. you know, senator, we have not done a day-by-day coverage of this because it s been a little bit of waiting about when when it is going to show up and if it is going to happen. there was a deadline last week. there s a deadline, now. what is your sense of, a, how real it is? and, b, how much the entire agenda stands or falls on whether this happens? a bunch of questions there. um, but, a, i think this is going to get done. i think it is to be expected that, after having gotten the agreement on the broad outline, the details are hard to consummate. why is that? well, it s because this bill is not just spending. it s policy, as well. every-five years, we pass new authorizations to determine how we re going to spend highway money and rail money. normally, those bills in and of themselves, are month-long negotiations.
happened, but as the members and the rest of us are searching for answers and trying to solve the randomness of this, that is one of the only thing that makes a bit of sense. the one tell us about gene siller. he was the consummate pga professional. you know what that means. hospitality. he is the guy with a smile on his face. he go there for refuge. you walk into the golf shop from your busy day at work or a tough down the course, and you re looking to get away. you need a guy with a smile on his face that is willing to do whatever he can to roll out the red carpet for you to make your day better, and that is what gene siller was. he was perfect added, whether it was to give you a lesson or to give one of your kids a lesson or just to let you bend his ear for a couple of minutes. you can vent about things or talk about politics. he is going to sit there and listen and have a smile on his face. if you need a sweet tea, he will
desantis now. i mean, tim, he talked earlier today this is actually about the return of cruise ships to his states. but let me play that and then make my point. we have seen throughout this country government overstep its bounds in response to the coronavirus pandemic. and you can t have an agency relying on flimsy illegal authority to just keep an entire industry closed with really no path forward. the only reason that you even started seeing any of these discussions is because we brought the lawsuit. when i saw that earlier today, tim, the first thing i thought is, is this the executive kind of language that republicans are drawn to? yeah. look. absolutely. i think that they should be worried about burning on desantis, consummate will cause harm against rod desantis. him pointing his finger and chastising the median, she has dancing the liberals. that s what kept donald trump
notes to make memos to file, to memorialize things in writing. was the committee able to obtain notes and documentation from him today? or was all that material given to the state department and you guys don t have it? well, you re absolutely correct. i tell you, ambassador taylor, i ve interviewed a lot of people, of course, in my former life, but he s definitely the kind of witness that any person conducting an investigation would want to talk to. we did not i did not have an opportunity to review any of his documentation or notes, but clearly he s very meticulous. he obviously took extensive notes. his recall today, different from some other witnesses, was near perfect. he s a consummate professional. there s no doubt about that, but someone who really, rachel, gave me hope about the state of our country right now.
would want to talk to. we did not i did not have an opportunity to review any of his documentation or notes, but clearly he s very meticulous. he obviously took extensive notes. his recall today, different from some other witnesses, was near perfect. he s a consummate professional. there s no doubt about that. but someone who really, rachel, gave me hope about the state of our country right now. obviously ambassador taylor remembered the oath, multiple oaths he s taken having served with several administrations since 1985. his testimony today was, as i said, just extremely powerful and really critical to this investigation that we re involved in. are you getting different stories about the same set of circumstances from different witnesses? clearly some of what he described today, at least as far as we can tell on the outside,