angeles is a city of latinos. you could see that line influence everywhere you go, right down to the street lights. and if you have something to do with colonization, you re right. the indigenous tongue bought into much people lived in the l.a. basin for centuries, it was claimed by spanish conquistador s, juan rodriguez kadyrov in 1842. in 1821, this land became a part of mexico until the end of the mexican american war in 1848, when mexico seeded 55% of its territory, including california, to the u.s.. but trust me, los angeles still loves offense mexican, and i couldn t think of a better person to welcome me to the real l.a. then this iconic mexican american, native angeleno, george lopez. and guess what? he s taking me to east l.a., and we are eating at his favorite spot. yes, sir.
questions. mr. chairman, ranking members, thank you for the opportunity to address the house permanent select committee on intelligence with respect to the activities relating to ukraine and my role in the events under investigation. i ve dedicated my entire professional life to the united states of america. for more than two decades, it has been my honor to serve as an officer in the army, infantry officer with multiple overseas tours and i was deployed to w e for combat places. since 2008, i have been a foreign officer. i served in the united states embassy in kiev, and moscow. in washington, d.c., i was the political military affairs officer for russia, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff where i drafted the armed forces global campaign plan to counter russian aggression and made line influence. and in july 2019, i was asked to serve at the white house national security council.
man whose job it was to be sort of a conduit to a number of foreign countries. seems like he is smarter than donald trump jr. and walked into a meeting and didn t understand maybe what was going on. seems like everyone there thought they were coming for a different reason than what theity meeting was essentially about. they got them there to push the mag newtski act. after the meeting what was in steve bannon s inbox? more about that act. have aet mooing, dangle a return, something like damaging information on the clintons. this is the ground influence of russia, which we haven t talked about as much as the on line influence that we have covered. you can t just look at this in a you believe about. we just had a primary day. and there are more mid terms coming up. do these documents feed
91-year-old bush criticized dick cheney and donald rumsfeld and blamed his on son for allowing cheney to gain too much power saying mr. cheney built his own empire and asserted too much hard line influence within george w. bush s white house. mr. rumsfeld he said was an arrogant fellow who could not see how others served the president badly saying the biggest mistake was letting cheney bring in his own defense department. he meant his son. the buck stops there he said. in response to his father s criticism george w. bush released this statement today. i am proud to have served with dick cheney and don rumsfeld. i was fortunate to have him by my side. led the pentagon and was an
had built his own empire and asserted too much hard line influence within george w. bush s white house and pushing for the use of force around the world. bush 41 was even harsher about secretary donald rumsfeld. according to the times, i think he served the president badly, mr. bush said. i don t like what he did and i think it hurt the president having his iron-ass view of everything. i ve never been that close to him anyway. there is a lack of humility, a lack of seeing what the other guy takes. he s more kick ass, take names, take numbers. i think he paid a price for that. he added rumsfeld was an arrogant fellow, self-assured, swagger. but bush didn t let his son off the hook saying it ultimately rested on w s shoulders calling chen a good man who pushed boundaries too far. i think they overdid that but it is not cheney s fault. it s the president s fault. by that, he meant his son.