Sen. Graham good morning everybody. We are making progress, we are somewhat closer together now. Hello senator grassley. A little brief update and we will take up the business, next week we are having a hearing about policing, community policing, use of force, we will have two panels, it will be a long day and hopefully an important day. Last time we talked about witnesses regarding the inquiry to the Mueller Investigation to senator feinstein and her friends on the other side, i promise you if you want to call mr. Mueller or his designee, thats fine with me. Over, whenynn cases that ever happens, i want the doj to tell us why they decided to drop it and if you want to call mr. Gleason or judge , we willr anybody else do that. I think theyll be a good topic for this committee. Having said that, the business before the committee was senator feinsteins amendment. Would you like to vote or talk or what would you want to do . Like to maken id Opening Statements. Sen. Graham yes maam. Its y
[general chatter] good morning, everybody. We are making progress. We are somewhat closer together now. Hello, senator grassley. A little brief update. Update, and then we will take of the business of the committee where we left off. Next week, we will have a hearing about policing, Community Policing and the use of force. We will have two panels. It will be a long day. I hope it will be an informative day and i hope good will come out of it. Last time that we talked, we talked about witnesses regarding the inquiry into the Robert Mueller investigation. Ourenator feinstein, and friends on the other side, i promise that if you want to call Robert Mueller or his designee, that is fine with me, at the appropriate time. When the Michael Flynn cases over, when it happens i want the doj to tell us why they decided to drop it, and if you want to call mr. Gleason or judge gleason, or anybody else as to why it should not have been dismissed, we will do that. That would be a good topic for this
Liz the facts are, there are no inconsistencies to date and what terror read is saying about the Sexual Assault allegations against joe biden. Your reaction to the interview . My reactions are simple, not about whether he did or didnt do it, its a breathtaking hypocritical double standard in the kavanaugh manner because of political toxic city and the perception that Brett Kavanaugh would be the swing vote to the roe v. Wade. And that will happen in the first week and that never did. Lets get them back on to ask them why they said that. In kavanaugh, they said victims must be believed, today what they did, they took out the semantic toolbox and they change that to victims have to be heard. But the point i am making, theyre twisting themselves into semantic pretzels because her humiliated and embarrassed. Enter by the idea that they said everybody must believe willynilly, case closed, that goes against everything i learned as a lawyer in the last 35 years. Liz by the way tara reid is sa
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