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tangentially paying attention, it makes sense on the surface, right? the call happened on july 25th. she wasn t ambassador then. but having the president of the united states, who we ve been told all week long isn t going to pay attention to these hearings thinks they re a side show, doesn t think this matters. target yovanovitch while she was on the stand entirely blow up the argument that she does not matter. and it threw all the republicans and their questioning off their talking points. you saw the entire second half of the afternoon. and by the way, this is well, let me pause you there, garrett. yep. let me pause you. instead of you stating it, let s play. we put together a montage of what the republicans had to do this afternoon playing cleanup for the president. take a listen. love it. i wanted to thank you for your 30 years of public service. i for one want to thank you so very much for a long service, exemplary service for to our country and on behalf of our na
around and cooperate. and, you know, neither paul manafort with whom the mueller team did have a cooperation agreement that didn t work out so well for them. nor roger stone, who is a, you know, liar under just about any circumstanc circumstances isn t especially good witness or cooperator. right. so, you know, i do think there s big open questions at the end of the mueller investigation. on the other hand, it s a fairly typical thing in a major federal investigation. you go as far as you can go and that s as far as you can go. i i is it, though? i mean, did they shut this down too soon? because i it it seems to me, number one, they never finished the wikileaks investigation. unless unless there s a bunch of stuff we don t know and they re waiting to see what they re going to do with assange. but it feels like to me they ve never successfully finished that investigation. that s number one. and and we still don t know
many untrue things as fast as you can to get them all into one or two quick statements. so i thought it was kind of wild. here s a snapshot of romney s tax details. for 2010, he and his wife reported income topping $21 million, mostly from investments on which they paid less than 14% in federal tax. the gingriches and the obamas earned far less and paid, percentage wise, far more. tax rates are sure to come up in president obama s third state of the union speech. here s one tip-off. we re told warren buffett s secretary will be a guest of the first lady. you ll remember in calling for higher taxes on millionaires, billionaire buffett remarked that his secretary pays a higher rate than he does. in just a few moments, we ll go behind the scenes of the biggest presidential speech of the year with man who s been there time and again. michael waldman joins me in face time about six minutes from now. as we speak, fans and friends of joe paterno are getting their first chance to
explanation channelled the grandfather of the drug war and a racist named harry anslinger who as founding commissioner of the federal bureau of narcotics spear headed the prohibition of cannabis. that was him being polite because he also cautioned that reefers make darkies think they re as good as white men. i could get into a long isn t that correcty takedown of this logic but i have more important things left in the hour that we have to do and frankly, i don t want to. but i will say one thing, mr. alfred. while you have issued a public apology, your position illustrates just how pervasive racialized thinking has been in the evolution of the drug war. a war that has put thousands of