Allegations, who released, who ordered the dossier in the first place were behind it. Heres exactly what he said. He said it at a News Conference with the moldovian president. He said the people that spread these accusations are worse than prostitutes and that this was being done to undermine trumps legitimacy. He said it was unique event never done before in political history and prove of the degraded political system in the United States. He compared this to the coupe in ukraine in 2014. There are many people in moscow looking at whats happening in the United States at the moment, the dossier and so on, and they do see some kind of deep state. One or two officials have used that phrase. They see that the Intelligence Community, maybe the Foreign Policy establishment, the defense establishment are somehow against donald trump and want to undermine his legitimacy. So thats what he was getting at, hallie. So, bill, headlinewise here, is this a case of putin coming to trumps defense, the
do you see that playing into the hearing today? i absolutely see it s going to play in. i think it goes beyond that. there are certainly going to be questions she has toa answer. there are also going to be questions about what that money promoted. it promoted a privatized education system instead of promoting a public education system. she seems to have the numbers to get through. is this about sending a message and stopping her nomination? we have to lift up the message that public schools are worth defending, title 9 is worth defending on campuses, these are issues that we have to absolutely make sure that any nominee and certainly betsy devos with her track record is accountable to. mary cathryn ricker, thank you. thanks for having me here
those are two things that very much concern people like randy weingart weingarten, the head of that teacher s union that you just showed. this is something that democrats have been very focused on. there s a lot of concerns about it, republicans supportive of school choice, jeb bush has an op-ed out supporting her. i think you ll see lines of questions particular around her finances. thin you can see democrats try to raise questio about that. kasie hunt, thank you very much. i want to share a little bit of new developments that i m just getting into my phone on e-mail. vice president mike pence is making an appearance on capitol hill for meetings. get back to the confirmation hearings now. i m joined by mary katherine