calls? well, i think the operating assumption is the latter, that donald trump was using either his cellphone or the cellphone of anybody around him who might have just handed him a phone in the moment of crisis. this was, you know, fairly well-known habit of his to talk on his personal cellphone or on the cellphone of anybody else around him when he needed to get hold of somebody. this shows the pieces the committee has and the pieces they still need. you ve got the knowledge they have of all of the people who have spoken out publicly or interviews in committee about the conversations they had with the former president. they re going back and saying, wait, this wasn t on the log, this wasn t on the log. there s the possibility the national archives has more material they ve not handed over to the committee, so that might fill in the missing pieces. but it does speak to what i think is the biggest challenge, going all the way back to the impeachment here of filling in exactly what th
the russian foreign minister, one? and two, how does he talk to someone who lies repeatedly, whose boss lies repeatedly? how do you make progress under those circumstances? how do you trust a word that they say? well, we don t trust, chris. i think that s our operating assumption. and we have plenty of reason to operate with that principle in mind as do our ukrainian partners. you heard from the foreign minister before he took part in the latest round of diplomatic discussions with his russian counterpart today in turkey, that they had low expectations for this round of diplomacy. we are on precisely the same page with those low expectations. i think as of this morning, it is unclear to us whether even those low expectations have been met. at every turn before the invasion and now during this war of choice, the russian federation has engaged in something that we call the pretense of diplomacy. that is to say that russia goes through the motions, sometimes
playoff elimination after blowing a 26-point lead at home and losing game five of the series against the atlanta hawks. this after the sixers coughed up an 18-point lead in their game four loss. ouch, john berman. it was almost mathematically impossible for the sixers to lose. they had a 99.7 win probability i m told. not only did atlanta beat the sixers, but atlanta beat math. someone has to be in the 99 percentile. doesn t happen often, but, yikes. you ve lived there your whole life. after four years of obsequious deference to donald trump, republicans say it s joe biden who is soft on russia. john avlon with a reality check. the big lie is now the operating assumption of most republicans. lie big, lie loud. and assume the base won t know or care as long as they get their quick fix of confirmation.
here s where i think the breakdown is. i think it s a deeper point and that s this. when i was a federal prosecutor doing criminal cases, i was permitted to go to federal judges to get the search warrant and i went in what would be a secret proceeding in a sense that as the judge points out, no one from the other side as they are. but operating assumption in the equation is that essentially there s a prosecution not only known but given to defense lawyers for the people who are accused who have a powerful incentive to investigate the case, and discover it, if i have said something that was misleading to the court. so we obviously hope that we get honorable people but, what keeps
snap a six week losing streak. the s&p 500 closed 6/10 of a%. the nasdaq also higher. investors turning their attention to the may jobs report. that comes out in less than three hours. april was surprisingly strong. economists estimate 185,000 jobs were added in may. and may s report could be a key factor in the federal reserve when it considers interest rates when it meets in two weeks. there is an operating assumption that the president s trade war if the muhurts the american economy could result in what the president wanted all along a cut in interest rates to boost the economy that he is hurting. go figure. is four years of college still worth it, the federal reserve bank of new york says yes. the new york federal reserve finds the average college graduate earns $78,000 a year compared to 45,000 for a high school graduate, a difference of more than 30 grand. a college degree is still a good investment. the college degree has a 14% return on investment. the report finds the overal