legal, that as long as they called it a temporary, emphasis on temporary, hold, that it was legal under the law. honestly, there s a technical, you know, somewhat antiquated budget control act called the congressional budget and empowerment control act often referred to as the empowerment act, and this had been the subject earlier in the president s administration of dispute. the general the government accountability office, the gao, had written the white house a letter in december long before this whole ukraine saga. but in december of 2018 this office put the white house on notice that their interpretation of how to use, disperse, and hold congressionally approved funds was not following the letter of the law in gao s view. so that caused some anxiety within the budget office when
through a lawyer when fiona hill essentially said he had something to do with it, he was part of the people pushing the president s agenda to get ukraine to investigate joe biden. his lawyer said no, dr. hill is wrong, that s not what this was and basically she s wrong. they were concerned enough that they wanted to talk about it. they did it through his personal attorney instead of his white house. they re not trying to put distance but want to make sure that mick mulvaney is sending his message that he has his own representation and that could also reflect whether he has any legal liability here. this is a white house that will have to be triaging this. secretary pompeo, former national security adviser john bolton, and so many people listed as people that could possibly be part of this through all the witnesses we saw this week. there are people who are absolutely concerned this is a
those comments. it is clear that it was the russians, as you mentioned, all the intelligence agencies of the u.s. government have been very clear that the russians meddled in our election, was a very concerted effort to do that, a very sophisticated effort, that it wasn t the ukrainians. i think the only person who has said it s utilize yanians is mr. putin. mr. putin put it out. the russians are probably smiling right now that they get some u.s. government, elected officials to say that it was ukraine when we all know that is absolutely false. it s probably in part because the president, in his own words, continuing to pedal conspiracy theories. he pushes that a ukrainian company has a hacked server belonging to the democratic national committee. let s listen to what he had to say about that on fox & friends. they gave the server to
you have a diverse field politically speaking as well as experience wise. why wha is it that he thinks he is bringing that no one else can? considering he s worth $55 billion, i would like to put myself in his position but that s not a position i ll find myself in any time soon. i think he is discounting the democratic primary field. he s not participating in the traditional early states. he must be thinking that there is an opening for somebody who could pull from the traditional establishment wing of the democratic party and i m not sure what other wing of the democratic party, but if you believe the democratic base at this moment is turning against billionaires, i don t know why he thinks there s an opening for him. perhaps if he gets through in a general election, could he be seen as a technocrat who manages well and is not bought by any specific interest? i suppose there s that scenario,
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