know is boeing gave the president s inaugural committee $1 million, and an inaugural committee now under investigation from the southern district of new york. the company s ceo has also travelled to the president s private for profit club to schmooze, a place that is basically a petri dish of improper influence. with eknow that the ceo spoke with the president on the phone yesterday. when it comes to decision-making process, both to keep the planes in the air and to ground them, life and death matters to be sure, it would be nice to have faith the decision was made on the merits. but part of what s so insidious and toxic about the ubiquitous corruption of this administration is that of course we can have no such faith. we do not know if donald trump s decisions are made because of improper influence or expert recommendation or some cockamamy idea implanted in his brain while kibitzing at the mar-a-lago omelette bar. members of congress generally welcomed the president s decision to gro
opening staumt as to that not only about my communications regarding the special counsel s office and i said other investigations in the southern district of new york would be included in other investigations. chuck, you re a lawyer and a very good one obviously. he says the white house hasn t provided any promises or commitments, which is pretty a specific language. and those are exact lathe words i have keyed in on, chris. and he arefers congress back to his opening statements that seems to hinge on promises or commitments. it seems like there were conversations between the president and whitaker, not just about recusal but about the scope of the investigation and whether it had gone too far. what we would need at some point is a public hearing ear public
called for hearings before congress, bringing the faa to testify, but also boeing executives and secretary chau, who has supervisory authority over the faa. at the end of the day, it was secretary chau recommending to president trump that they ground these airplanes. but everyone involved in designing, constructing, approving for flight and continuing in flight has really some accountability to provide. and we need to know who knew what when and why they failed to act. since i have you here, senator, there is two pieces of senate business i d like to talk to you than are in motion. today something historic happened in the united states senate. the senate voted to pass a war powers resolution ordering the u.s. to end its involvement in the saudi war in yemen. the u.s. has been providing all kinds of support to that war, refueling for planes particularly as well as support
in training for saudi fighters. this was a big deal. what does it mean now? it means first of all that congress is taking back some of its war powers power, which is to the good. it means practically speaking that there should be an end to the equipping and training of saudi war crimes. very simply, the saudi bombing of civilians, many of them children, and the saudi interference with humanity aid is causing famine in that country and death and disease. and it means that the united states will no longer be complicit in those war crimes. now it still has to be approved by the house, but this is a profoundly important first step. the other big question before your body is the vote that s happening tomorrow. this is on the president s declaration national emergency, a one-page resolution ending said national emergency was