fox news that william taylor told congressional investigators there were two channels for policymaking on ukraine. one regular and one highly irregular. he described himself as a career diplomat and said the regular channel went through traditional state department avenues and the irregular channel went through the presidents people naming ambassador gordon sondland, former special envoy kurt volker, the president s personal attorney rudy giuliani, and energy secretary rick perry. according to prepared remarks, he had significant into the last presidential election as well as the ukrainian energy firm where by sat on the board. zelensky into investigations into it burisma showed how the official foreign policy of the united states was undercut by the irregular efforts led by mr. giuliani. taylor went further relating secondhand information about what he described as a september
before ambassador william taylor testified today, rudy giuliani was already under investigation for his back-channel dealings with ukraine along with two of his associates, lev parnas and igor fruman. lev and igor will be rained in federal court tomorrow on charges tied to their dealings with ukraine. federal prosecutors in new york city in charge of that investigation will surely be studying the transcript of today s deposition with ambassador william taylor for more evidence of what rudy giuliani has been up to. we have access only to ambassador taylor s opening statement in what became ten hours of testimony. in that opening statement, ambassador taylor said the push to make president zelensky publicly commit to investigations of burisma and alleged interference in the 2016 election showed how the official foreign policy of the united states was undercut by the irregular efforts led by mr.
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but so far, north korea is reportedly not talking about its nuclear program. this began at camp david. president trump said his efforts led to the new talks and there are reports the white house is not turning down the heat. according to the wall street journal, u.s. officials are debating a possible limited military strike against north korea. it would come in response to a nuclear or missile test did it s reportedly called a buddy no strategy. demonstrating potential consequences openly without igniting all-out war. what you make of these developments? this is a sign of progress, the talks between the north and the south? brian: sure. my fear is there going to loosen up the sanctions and give the economic gains of the president has worked very hard to begin to choke the regime out. so this liberal leader who didn t want to have an affinity to the u.s. was looking to go to china and was so threatened by north korea they agreed to that missile system instead of an environmental st
violations in the information they were giving their clients and in the way they were doing business. then they did something even weirder. they actually tried to do something about it. those efforts led to headlines like this at the end of 2002. wall street firms ready to pay $1 billion in fines. it is rare for new york s attorney general to wage a battle with wall street, one of the biggest campaign contributors in the state. this was happening, though, during his time as attorney general. it gave eric spitzer the moniker the sheriff of wall street. spitzer, of course, went on to become governor of new york state. he won in a huge landslide. he was sworn into office on january 1st, 2007, with his tough on wall street reputation right there with him. but the only thing most people remember about elliot spitzer s time as governor is how it ended. to every new yorker, and to all those who believed in what i tried to stand for, i sincerely apologize. i look at my time as governor