but the big problem here is not that he waited too long. it s that he doesn t have a vote. he s not a senator. the senate has to vote to change its own rules here. they can do it but they have no margin for error, so every senate democrat has to vote to change some rules, and joe manchin, while he is against doing so, is not the only one. kyrsten sinema has said she does not support doing this. and from all of our reporting, there s a handful of other democrats who are reluctant to do this but don t want to be publicly identified as reluctant because they fear that they ll have pushback from their base. is so, you know, biden s role, if he s committed to this, is doing essentially what you just saw, going out, making the public case, and then privately putting pressure on senators to adjust their views accordingly. time is of the essence. they don t have much to work with in terms of political runway so if this is going to happen, you have to see a concerted effort take place really ea
amendment was not going to work, it wouldn t be quick enough, open to legal challenges, et cetera. in the hours after the riot, there were high level conversations about this. here is the fascinating detail about what i found out as work on this book, i reached out to both mnuchin and pompeo, over and over and over and over again, and they would not say anything to me on the record, did they favor it, did they not favor it, did they discuss it, did they not discuss it, until as i was just about to go to press, i had one final telephone interview with donald trump and i brought all this up with him, and said, you know, why is it that these guys won t even deny it, they won t even if you say it is not true, why won t they deny it? and then within a couple of hours after that interview ended, i suddenly got a call from one of pompeo s top aides, saying, oh, you know what, we got a quote for you, yeah, yeah, here it is.
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volunteering to help him execute one of his big lies . david in your article you write in part, the steele dossier undertook to answer the question what the hell is going on with trump and russia. it was to silence that question that the outgoing trump administration appointed a special counsel of its own to investigate its investigators. there are three indictments, all for lying to the fbi about various aspects of the steele dossier. none of these indictments vindicate s trump s claims in any way. it remains fact that russian hackers and spies helped his campaign. it remains fact that the trump campaign welcomed the help. it remains fact that trump and those around him lied and lied and lied again about their connections to russia. anti-trump journalists want to
so we looked at the possibility, but i had to come back to campus for my last four courses. so that was the hard part. so we had to figure out when could i get back and get the job done, so my wife was so gracious and taking care of the house and the family that she allowed me to come and finish. i think it is so cool and what a great example to set. i think that s just so meaningful. but i also have to ask, what is it like to be back on campus, because i imagine things have changed some, and so what was did anything kind of catch you off guard or surprise you? yes, everything is kind surprised me. i had a class yesterday, i go into the class and i m the only one there, and i m looking around thinking to myself, what is going on? well, what i didn t realize was that the class was canceled, my professor sent emails to everyone, but i don t check emails before a class, i just didn t think to do that.