Senator or house member. And so this is Something Else that we strongly recommend. Host our guest is Henry Bonilla. Former congressman, served in congress until 2007, representing texas. Number for republicans is 2025853881. For democrats, 2025853880. And independents, 2025853882. Wonder if you talk to us a little bit about how this report and your recommendations are being received in congress today. Guest we havent had any strong feedback yet. Sometimes it take as while for messages to get into the leadership office. The former senators that led this, this on their side have already communicated with the Senate Leadership but no strong reaction yet. The house side. But were hoping that at least someone listens to us because at this point were not aware of anyone who is put together a set of recommendations like this anywhere. So, if half of them are implemented that would beik a he success. If one or two, hey, great. Butge were realistic about this most of us who worked on this have
They never went to the backup tapes. Exactly. The backup server is different. Theres no backup server. Theres a serve that operates the email. And the tapes theyre stored on offsite, they never got the emails back. Even though congress requestedded it, the irs didnt care and didnt go the extra mile to get thosement you testified last week that you knew there was a problem, february 2014 with lois lerners emails. I was advised there was an issue. In midmarch, the irs, according to your testimony, learned additional facts about her mysterious computer crash. Thats correct. Then you testified at this committee at the end of march, and you promised this committee, dowdy, gordon issa, everyone, get us lois lerner emails, you said, yes, well do it. You never mention, you never disclose that there were real problems about whether you were in fact going to be able to turn over those emails. Correct. At that time i did not know there were real problems meet what you told dave camp. In february
The senate . And that a significant number, i cant remember the exact number, was actually voicevoted out of the house. I think they call it consent in the lower house . What do they call it . Consent . Unanimous con sernt. You would be surprised at the number of unanimous consent. So i guess the point im perhaps making poorly is that whats different now. Wha im saying, i think there are some things we can do. There are some tweak that is can be made. Im just wondering, what is it about this moment in history that we dont think we can look at a problem. And some of us think its not that big a problem, and then make changes so that our businesses can compete for business abroad. I mean, im frustrated over the fact that it would seem to me that there are issues that need to be addressed. They can be fixed. Has there been anything discussed here today that cant be dealt with if we sat down and worked . Congressman, im a businessman for 20 dwreers in the private sector. We are constantly l
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. We havent seen that in a while. So unlike this white house really. Any chance well get answers to any of these big russiagate stories making headlines today . Well, we got plenty of questions on those topics. Its likely Sarah Sanders, particularly as it relates to the personal opinions on the mueller investigation, whether he will do an interview that she will kick that over to his outside counsel, Rudy Giuliani who has spoken to nbc news in the last several hours. Giving us a sense of where things stand. Effectively saying there was a letter from muellers team to the legal team representing the president. And there will be some narrows of the course of the topics, but they will still focus on collusion and obstruction of justice. I think it was last in may when he said it, walking on the south lawn that hes open to talking about all of this with robert mueller. That new reporting for the new york times, insisting