officials to say if woo don t tell him he s the president-elect, he ll got a bigger problem. steve: i will accept fill mud s gone. he seeks to gather this kind of data on. woman pleatly knowing, headquarters have no idea of cross reference it, interview people, find ut pmt p those of us under the thumb of the rgs frpg it sound very real to people who have been there. this is exactly how the russians
the fact it is under questioning of the united states and russian involvement and the fact mr. trump has questioned the fbi must have driven federal officials to say if we don t tell the president-elect this is swirling and he finds out elsewhere, we have a bigger problem. i will accept phil mud s characterization it is gossip, yet i still want to ask john cypher, does it nevertheless fit the m.o. of putin that he seems to gather this kind of data on business leaders, for example, that come to moscow? this is where i might disagree a little with phil. i think that information is completely invalidated, unvetted information, that the public has no way of finding out whether it is credible or not. however, the fbi and professional investigative intelligence services can look at that information, cross reference it, interview people, find out who sources are, find out what the information is. to your question, yes, those of us that lived and worked in
joined now the man that ran the office of congressional ethic when it first began and i thought it d be beneficial to understand the actual office. thank you, sir. my pleasure. so this is what republicans wanted to do this is what got passed last night, and i want you to help walk me through what this would have meant. stripped the office that you ran of the following. ability to investigate anonymous complaints, conduct reviews, free of interference from members of congress, maybe referrals to law enforcement without i guess ethics approval and to publish your finding publicly. if all these four powers were taken away, what s the point of the office? well, i think there isn t much left if those are taken away. particularly the published findings. that was the real genius in how this was set up. that the office would gather evidence, interview people, collect documents, find the facts, present those to the lawmakers, and then after a
well, hard to believe we it sounds like a dan brown novel, doesn t it? however, we should note that there s nothing really new in these allegations. in the sense that remember in 2003 pope francis had a study commission on finances in the vatican because of some of these abuses. so, they were obvious then and he wanted to begin the reform. so some of what we re hearing has been well known. yes, it s more documented now in a book but they re hardly new revelations. and pope francis is about reforming the very things you mentioned. well, a couple things really shocked me. there s revelation in one of the books where you can actually pay to become a saint. i m talking about a good chunk of money. like half a million dollars. no, you don t pay to become a saint. the canonization process by which the church has to do the investigation, all the administration, fly to the different regions where the saint lived, interview people.
into the mission. i came to know sarah more closely and undertook an excavation where father sarah built the first two churches and we discovered them and i was overcome with the senation this was the place that would channel the ancestors, hispanic and indigeno indigenous, and i fell it my knees and a different und understanding of who sarah was. what a remarkable moment to be the first to uncover the chapel. we are seeing the pope enter st matthew s cathedral and we have limited access soon because it will be private. we heard from a reporter yesterday who did interview people who were still upset about becoming a saint and i will paraphrase because of the