For political future, and a fabulous teacher. He advised president george w. Bush and recently served as a Senior Advisor to New Hampshire governor chris sununu. My friend mike murphy, veteran of five president ial campaigns, and numerous campaigns for senators and governors, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and mitt romney. Patrick, i will begin with a question. We will start with you. A lot of critics think New Hampshire, with its lack of diversity, should never be the first primary state. What is your response to that . Will this everchanging . Ever change . My response is it will never change. There is a great amount of hostage taking, malfeasance, hold ups, anything but cash changing hands, in order to keep New Hampshire first. I say that with great respect. I think there is an important part of the New Hampshire primary, but more than anything, why is there a New Hampshire . Because New Hampshire says so at this point. They simply will not give this primary up. They have enacted l
Release of certain grand jury materials, the United States house of representatives. Justice,department of the District Court, so this court could have an opportunity to review the import questions of the day. The court denied that motion, even though it is clear that once the issues are disclosed, they cannot be undisclosed. The court denied that motion on of merit, butse as we explained, the District Court committed at least two serious errors of law in granting the request. Start with irreparable harm. It is the case that if we agree with the District Court, the irreparable harm is not that important. Freeman our intention in the case like judge griffith it would likely what significance is it . Freeman basically, in terms of the irreparable piece, the disclosure of grand jury information from a massive investigation concluded eight 25ths ago, there are only hours coming out of that proceeding there are 2800. Judge directly to this material. Mr. Freeman how does that relate . Yes, t
We have seen issues that are pertinent to this testimony today who have refused to come in. It is with gratitude that we want to thank him for coming in today and providing useful testimony. Always, when witnesses come and we learn more and today we learned more because he honored his duty to cooperate in our investigation. [indiscernible] mr. Sandys testimony relates that the administration placed on Security Assistance to ukraine. I will not go into what he testified to. This investigation is most importantly about 391 million in taxpayer money that was leveraged to ask the ukraines to look into the president s political opponent. This was authorized by congress, signed into law by the president by wheny day that went that money was not given to the ukrainians, the ukrainians were dying. By when [indiscernible] the question is whether he was reluctant. I will say he cooperated and answered all of our questions. We learn more about this investigation and as a former prosecutor, what i
Then, national nationally syndicated talk show host on free speech. He joined us on this mornings washington journal. Host pamela constable, longtime Foreign Correspondent for the washington post. I feel like i should start off by saying welcome home. Pamela thank you. Im delighted to be home. Host all told, how many years of your reporting career or percentage have you spent overseas . Half. i guess close to first with the boston globe, i worked for a number of years in latin america. That was close to a decade. Half. Off and on with the washington post, it comes out to be close to a decade. Host when you decided on journalism, how did you gravitate toward a foreign reporting . My earliest, interest in journalism was more about domestic issues. Poverty, drug addiction, social ills you may say. I did a lot of work on that in the early years. Then i guess, i dont know, i traveled overseas as a tourist, two unusual places, and i began to think some of these same issues were definitely th
Then we are doing a conference, making a statement, and i think we have had a very successful meeting. [translating in foreign language] we have first had a sensitive meeting and discussions were comprehensive. [speaking foreign language] we have had the opportunity to focus on Strategic Partnerships with President Trump. And we are trying to accomplish the target. And of course our indisputable partnership under the offices of nato. And as you are probably aware between december 3 and fourth we will gather for the Leaders Summit of nato in london. And turkey is among the top five contributors of nato. And of course our position with the United States under the roof of nato is quite different. And i believe london will be quite busy. President trump we will have a big meeting on nato very soon. I think i can say it because other people feel the way, the president was disappointed in the statement made by france having to do with commitment and nato. It was a big statement made a couple