that s a good step. the further on, as it goes to this, we believe, and i have had multiple communications with chief white of detroit, our great partner, and another, again, shoutout to his team for what they did, how they did it. and we have been in conversation and talking about some of the now follow-on information and evidence that we have. we believe they were assisted in that location to get there, to get in, and we re gathering that information, and we re going to have the totality of that done fairly soon and present that to our prosecutor for potential charges for either aiding and abetting or obstruction of justice, so that will be a determination by our prosecutor at some point in the near future, and that is a work in progress with all the other works in progress. again, you know, every time i get a chance, i want to throw out there to the public, if they
congressman was just saying that it s going to be staff members doing the questions as opposed to members of congress, we haven t seen that for a while. that s pretty interesting. there was a lot of talk of should that have been done in, you know, the mueller testimony, in other testimonies. but do you think that s going to make much of a difference in terms of public perception? i don t know if it s going to make much of a difference in public perception. it may mean that you get more and better information out of the witnesses because of course the committee lawyers are really steeped in all of this. and i don t know if that will happen on the republican side as well or just on the democratic side. if there are republican attorneys and republican members of congress, you can be sure they re going to go back to the deep state and sort of the rat hole about, well, these are all democrats, and they re not to be trusted and, you know, all the rest of that. and i think, however, if you
derailed. no, this seems to be different, and i am so encourage the. i think this is good for the republicans as well as the democrats. the congressmen, with all due respect, are such extraordinary blowhards that they are, a, all they want to do is hear their own voices and, b, don t know how to ask a question to tell a story. both sides will be able to use this testimony to tell a story. right. and the public can then make up its mind about which story is more persuasive. but this nonsense of the five minutes from each side is just a miserable way to extract information, and this is much better, i think, for all concerned. and you re going to be able to read some of the secret testimony because they re going to release they re going to start releasing some of these transcripts. we know that the attorneys are up there checking out the transcripts of their clients. so, you know, the public is going to have a lot of the story before you get the testimony. so they re going to be
is problematic for some of the follow-on information that they re going to gain from this raid because we know that they were able to stay in the house for some time, probably collect some information, and in order to act on that, it s hard to launch all of these operations from inside of iraq or in turkey. so i think it s going to have not only a follow-on impact, but it could have actually disrupted this operation itself. nada, finally you spent a lot of your life tracking isis and learning about al baghdadi. i just wonder what it was like for you personally when you learned about the circumstances of his death and that he had been killed. well, i spent a lot of time also tracking zarqawi in al qaeda and iraq. so this succession of that organization and seeing these iterations of these organizations, i mean it s a relief on one hand given the amount of violence that he s sown throughout the region and everywhere else and the impact he s had. like we saw with zarqawi, bin
session and not make a lot of her vulnerable members kind of walk the plank. so i m not quite sure what you get out of this except, you know, you give comfort to some folks who are in very safe districts and you make people in swing districts very nervous. but, dave, to your point, it s not going to change no. you know, how the white house handles this or deals with this. nope. no, it doesn t. just like jeff said earlier, you know, just because they vote this way, i don t think all of a sudden the white house counsel is going to say, well, since you ve had this procedural vote, now we ll turn all this information over to you. it s going to change absolutely nothing. you know, this has i m sorry. go ahead. it s not going to change anything. jeff, it s not going to change anything. i just think, anderson, i always go back to the washington post, january 20th, 2017. you know, the move to impeach president trump has begun on inauguration day. so this is just a continuat