justice department. she said this defendant heard these things from powerful men and women in the halls of the u.s. capitol and state capitols. amy berman jackson is an interesting judge because these really, in the last, you know, year, discovered the power of not just her rulings but the power of her pen to talk about what s happening in this country, to talk about what s happening to its institutions. you ve seen her do it repeatedly when it comes to exposing wrongdoing and misconduct at the justice department in a number of cases that happen to be in her courtroom and i think you see her doing it now. i think what she s trying to do is in the same way she sounded the alarm about the corruption she saw at the justice department, she s trying to sound the alarm to the country about what is happening here and put the weight of a distinguished federal judge behind the fact that this is not you know, this isn t a problem that s over. this is a problem that s ongoing, and if we don t
mention china to get us back to where we need to be but this isn t a problem that began yesterday or this administration, it s been going on for two decades and it is wickedly difficult to solve. leland: for both republican and democratic presidents been disappointed by deals with kim before. our best to you and yours this holiday. molly: millions of americans heading home for the holidays paired with the weather cooperates? and how it air force are doing today. leland: plus, santa claus is already at work this christmas eve. tracking him as he has left the north pole, that when we come back. any comments doug?
this isn t a problem. third, the foreign relations committee on which i am and the others serve should promptly conduct an investigation into whether or not these funds were inappropriately used in an abuse of power. listen, before our time runs out here let me get some questions in i need to ask you. yes. what are the consequences so far? so far it s been radio silence from the republicans. first, i would like to believe that my friends and colleagues on the other side of the aisle will put country above party and insist that there be a full and open investigation because this is an alarming example of exactly the sort of abuse of power that i think has caused previous presidents to get into very deep hot water when they put personal political interests above the country. second, i think we ought to hear why the director of national intelligence is able to block a vital whistle-blower report like this. i m here in the state of iowa.
essentially are in the intersection between the world of intelligence and some other policy world. the chairman said this isn t a problem of the law. he clearly thinks that this is a miscarriage of the duties by the director of national intelligence. you just heard mike rodgers, that she s not really seen as someone of a political actor f. what will do you make of that? . i think when you have an unusual situation, i know of no press dpoernt anything like this, i can imagine an executive, like the director of national intelligence, says, i need some legal assistance to this, and if they say hold on, that
the dikes. how do you do something about this? i think the first thing is to make it more people-centered. that means looking at it from the point of the view of impact on people now. this isn t a problem of the future, which quite a few people still think it is. melting glashiers, melting slowly somewhere and it will no. it s an absolute problem now, all over the world, including here in the united states. and what we need to do is, i think, get everybody to take three steps. the first step is make it personal in your life. do something that you wouldn t have been doing and deal with your own carbon footprint in some way. that might mean recycle more carefully, change your eating habits. i ve been a pescatarian. i don t eat meat anymore. and get angry and active. get cities and governments to do more and get active with your voice and those trying to deal with conservation, planting