the house intelligence commit canny. i think with senator ber we we ve even had joint press conferences along the way. our committee has made a number of interim reports. we can confirmed the fact and it was ton in a unanimous bipartisan way that not only thid russians interfere but they did on behalf of trump against clinton. we pointed out the fact they touched 21 states lec torl systems and luckily we have bipartisan legislation to protect that going forward. and it water our committee that made the first reveals about the level of usage they maids of particularly facebook and twitter. and that s something i m going to come back to legislatively this year. they seem to be at odds, frankly on two of the key policy issues.
in my lifetime is notorious for leaking. you have had people pushed out like steve bannon for leaking. kellyanne conway so far has not been. what s shocking about the book and the vanity fair expert is cliff simms brings receipts. he described a scene where he s on her laptop watching her text in realtime leak against trump, bannon, kushner and various members of the administration. it presents a vivid firsthand portrait of how the sausage is made in washington, in this white house, in a way we haven t seen before on the record from a white house source. how has she survived for so long? she s a survivor. he gets to the heart of it when he says her agenda was her survival over all others including the president. she s very can an canny. why does the president allow leaks from her? they have a very, very strong
president directed him to lie at any point and if the president was trying to suborn perjury, that is impeachable and they said they would not hesitate to launch impeachment proceedings. if the president has been trying purposely to intimidate out of testifying before the commit canny, that could be seen as a blat obstruction of justice. it s worse than watergate. richard nixon never would do this because he had a basic respect for institutions, despite all his wrong doing. he he says if john deansies word against me, i m going to get him. it is mob talk. we re in day 34 of one long act of obstruction of justice. sometimes it s tweets and sometimes directing the justice department to go after someone s father in law. you can t charge them all as crimes. i don t know what you could get the president for under the statute.
from a security perspective. from a humanitarian perspective there s problems, two people died in custody. this administration is causing them. this administration is causing the humanitarian issues, which is the challenging we re not discussing. we have over 800,000 families that will not be paid for however many weeks on end. these are civil servants, people who can t afford to miss a paycheck. trying to pay rent, take care of their family, and now this shutdown in this manufactured crisis, they aren t getting paid. in 2014 president obama tried to address the nation on immigration and the major networks did not grant him the time as a historical note. norm, what s interesting to me is this president has a weird set of political skills, and they sometimes he uses them to his benefit in a canny, wiley way. he s been making arguments about the wall for three years and has only exacerbated opposition to
to his benefit in a canny, wiley way. he s been making arguments about the wall for three years and has only exacerbated opposition to it. what do you he can t shape public opinion whether he gets a prime time address or not. no. we ve had presidents before who have tried to exploit their basis for political advantage. richard richard nixon did it with law and order. every president saw the importance to reaching out to the larger public and building a larger coalition. he has not spent a minute trying to do that. there s a cleverness to that in the sense of self-survival. it so intimidates republicans in congress that he has 80 to 90% support from the base that they won t challenge him but it s disastrous for the country. we have to note it s not just the 800,000 federal employees. it s contractors, including people who clean the office