waves during the christmas season, nativity scenes for example. shannon: this happens all the time. there was a lot of reaction about people who do not love it when people leave of their lights past new year s. this family almost all the time, they were celebrating other holidays because of seek religion, hindus and others and it was important to them. virginia supreme court decisions that we find the seasonal guidelines imposed against these exceed the scope of the restricted covenants and are not reasonably related to any of them. what say you to exhibit the? the legal definition of hokey pokey turn yourself around. these guidelines were very clear what they could do. these people were gaming the system, multiple religions, 24/7 past the time period they want these lights off. this association has a right to have certain guidelines. they were not trying to
the steele dossier and the fusion gps investigation of donald trump. glenn simpson and peter fritsch. thank you both for being here. it s great to have you here. not only i, but so many having you here feels like a turn of the tables. in the prologue, you make clear this is only possible essentially because of the investigations of you, because of the way congress came after you. can you explain that? well, the republicans controlled washington for two years, all of washington for two years, and they used that time to investigate the investigators and dig into us and waste enormous amounts of money trying to find something on us that would discredit us rather than investigating the russian attack on our election and our democracy. and the consequence of that materially for you, you re essentially freed up to talk about some things that would otherwise be confidential client matters? that s absolutely right. we respect our covenants with our clients.
having you here feels like a turn of the tables. in the prologue, you make clear this is only possible essentially because of the investigations of you, because of the way congress came after you. can you explain that? well, the republicans controlled washington for two years, all of washington for two years, and they used that time to investigate the investigators and dig into us and waste enormous amounts of money trying to find something on us that would discredit us rather than investigating the russian attack on our election and our democracy. and the consequence of that materially for you, you re essentially freed up to talk about some things that would otherwise be confidential client matters? that s absolutely right. we respect our covenants with our clients. in this case, the democratic national committee and the hillary for president campaign. we were not able to talk about those things for a long time and in the meantime, faced a lot of pressure from republicans in con
the cia torture program. and what is going to happen to these findings? is it going to be made public? do you turn it over to law enforcement, do you give it to a political campaign? that s for the nonprofit to decide. so it depends on what the information is. but we have tried, you know, the charter is public education. so in one form or another, we re attempting to educate the public about russia s attempts to undermine western democracies, not just in the united states. before i go, what kind of toll has this taken on you personally? i would assume a bit. you have been targeted personally, harassed personally online. talk about it? really unpleasant for a long time. we were forced by various covenants we had with our clients to remain silent about our role. that was hard to take when you have on a daily basis republicans pushing lies about you, much as they re doing about whistleblowers today and other patriots who are actually standing up for democracy. it s really, really
i want to particularly note four president trump used his enormous power as president not to help our security but to excerpts of the transcript, one benefit himself personally. as you watch this piece by piece that relates to the security this picture being built by the assistance we ve been talking professionals, is that the about, another that discusses a picture you re seeing? favor that president trump asked if it is, it s impeachable. of president zelensky, a third not to fight the russians. where president trump asks the ukrainian president to our security as ambassador investigate his political taylor said, our security is in opponent, former vice president a world governed by rule of law biden, and then a final one where the ukrainian president where you do not violate the directly links the desired white sovereignty of your neighbors, house visit to the political that you respect international investigations that president trump wanted. so let s look at the first covenant