and scratch my head saying how do you do this knowing full well knowing what you stood up and said post election and postjanuary 6 with the conduct of then president trump. yeah. i m used to the tim millers of the world not getting what we want from republican but usually these guys are at least a little coy or subtle and come up with bank shot justification that s at least in the ballpark of being in line with conservative principle or being in line with some sort of argument for what is better for the country. grassley didn t even do that. grassley is literally just saying the only reason i m doing this is because this guy is popular. what is the limiting principle on that? the man he s shaking the hand with in the picture attempted however, you know, pathetically to try to steal the election and stay in office as an unelected
and in the book more broadly is the dishneau dsh the way in which all of this led him to get rid of the people around him. ultimately the week that we document in the paper today ends with him fierpg kirstin nielsen his homicide secretary over a troubled year and a half but did he that with other people too because any didn t because some of them chamged bernally what he wanted to do and that frustrated him. and didn t stom with kirstin nielsen. then it was a slough of people, steven miller and others believed weren t sufficiently supportive. but this is a corner that the i mean this is a trap of the president s own making. he made promising during the election, saying that mexico is paying for the wall and it s this big beautiful wall with a beautiful door into it. all the various promises he made without any there were many other republicans on the debate stages saying this is not going to happen. what you re talking about is made up. his aides were the ones who had
proper processes and so on. yeah, i mean i don t think they could just move on from giuliani. you know, for instance, if they think they have a basis for bringing him in to testify, slap him with a subpoena. if he doesn t appear, sue him, and then see, or then just move on. i also think there s, you know, no news flash in saying that there aren t very many democrats who think they have any chance of getting enough senators to convict in the senate. right. that s true. what about senator grassley s comments today about the whistle-blower? i m just wondering how, as someone who knows the hill well, how significant is that because some people are saying, well, it s sort of a break from the president. he s saying the whistle-blower should be listened to and it should go through i was surprised that grassley didn t say this last week when the whistle-blower came out. he has historically for decades been probably the biggest champion for whistle-blowers in the government. and the
giuliani. potentially. i m sure that s true. as a general matter they have to file the lawsuit to appear that they are at least going through the proper processes and so on. i don t think they could just move on from giuliani. for instance if they think they have a basis for bringing him in to testify, slap him with a subpoena. if he doesn t appear, sue him appear and then see. or then just move on. i also think there is no news flsh in i sag there aren t mm democrats who think they have any chance of getting enough senators to convict in the senate. right, right. that s true. what about senator grassley s comments about the whistle-blower? i m worning how someone who knows the hill well how significant is that? because some people are saying it s a break from the president. essentially saying the whistle-blower should be listened to and it should go through. i was surprised grassley didn t say it last week when the whistle-blower came out. he has historically for dec
hospitals, charities, he wanted greater oversight. he wanted more accountability. he wanted more transparency and lois lerner from 2005 on was it has been head of these tax exempt organizations. and grassley was head of the senate finance committee either as chairman or as the top republican. and for five years under her tenure and while he was the top republican, he really pushed for greater scrutiny of all these groups that she oversees. now, we are talking acorn which was, you know, a aa group a the love republicans targeted at the time. the red cross and how they dealt with their donations, united way. it force the irs to rewrite the rules and draw on much greater scrutiny of these organizations. i have never in my life seen anything more over the top than her wanting to refer grassley for an audit for the simple reason that she gets a letter about grassley being invited some place. grassley didn t even get the