i was closer to her than anybody else. he was going to marry her some day. she was, after all, about the prettiest girl in town. local beauty pageant judges were wowed by her looks and poise. they had already crowned her as such. but here s another truth her boyfriend came to realize. beauty really isn t everything. nona was a sometimes troubled girl given to bouts of emotional turmoil. her mother was grateful to kevin for making her daughter happy. kevin was really interested in helping nona get through some of the hard times she was having. he seemed to be a really caring person. he even brought nona into his own family. his mom janice, dad hiram treated her as one of their own. she was not a girlfriend or whatever. she was a she was our family. when it was time for kevin to go after college, he and nona stayed in touch and in love
thing of value, and, yes, it makes common sense. the election interference, value to a campaign is a thing of value. hard to prove in court, but end of the day, this gets back to what we talked about earlier. if he s seen to have violated his oath of office, then yes, he can be impeached too. isn t everything that happened in that phone call basically moot after today? already did it in the open? democrats say what he said is impeachable on its own and, yeah, an interesting conversation about exactly what the nuance of that phone call was and whether it was a quid pro quo, but end of the day the question for impeachment now would be is it okay for the president of the united states to invite totalitarian governments to investigate political opponents? stick around. more to talk about. not long ago the secretary of state mike pompeo demanded all the documents from the white house. a member of the house at the time. what s changed? stay with us.
showing that he would privilege loyalty to trump over the findings of career law enforcement and intelligence officials. and trump then offered him the job of director of national intelligence. but like most jobs, the interview isn t everything. you got to pass a background check. and this week multiple news outlets combed through ratcliffe s record something everybody wasn t familiar with because a lot of people didn t know this guy. and found numerous times he embellished or misled the public about his career in federal law enforcement. now this is important. because under the law anyone nominated to the dni job shall have extensive national security experience. this is actually one of the jobs that you can t just appoint anybody to. today, the president announced he would be withdrawing ratcliffe s nomination in a tweet blaming unfair treatment by the lame stream media, one word both lambie and stream
officials. and trump then offered him the job of director of national intelligence. but like most jobs, the interview isn t everything. you got to pass a background check. and this week multiple news outlets combed through ratcliffe s record something everybody wasn t familiar with because a lot of people didn t know this guy. and found numerous times he embellished or misled the public about his career in federal law enforcement. now this is important. because under the law anyone nominated to the dni job shall have extensive national security experience. this is actually one of the jobs that you can t just appoint anybody to. today, the president announced he would be withdrawing ratcliffe s nomination in a tweet blaming unfair treatment by the lame stream media, one word both lambie and stream capitalized within it. but on comments on the south lawn a few hours later trump
i wouldn t lose sight of the context we re in right now. yes, mueller just testified. but that s not the only important political event we re facing. today is also the start of august recess, congressional recess where members of congress all over the country go back to their hometowns. and i think democrats didn t want to go back to their districts without being able to say something. and jerry nadler deserves some credit. this isn t everything, but this is a step in the right direction where they re able to say yes we are starting to move forward on impeachment. here the tricky thing. trying to have it a little both ways, and not again. strategically, it s not crazy why they re trying to do both these things. they want the constitutional force of impeachment inquiry in the courts without getting all their members on the record at this point, right, on something that might not be popular in their district. the issue that becomes the moment of the thing, you can see pelosi is scared