after weeks of mounting pressure from democrats and the witness himself, the house intelligence committee voted today to release the transcript of their november interview with glenn simpson, that man would be the cofounder of the company behind the infamous trump/russia dossier. simpson s firm was first hired by a conservative publication in 2015, then later by the dnc in 2016, to dig up information about donald trump, including his business dealings and relationships, as mr. simpson put it to the committee, quote, we threw a line in the water and moby dick came back. with me now, adam davidson, staff writer at the new yorker, who s written extensively about donald trump s business dealings, and betsy woodruff, report for the daily beast, who has a piece up right now called fusion gps: kremlin purged suspected spies after trump dossier released . let me start with you, betsy, with about what jumped out to you from the transcript that we got. the piece of this i found most fascina
stories about the older people that voted for trump who are very low income or sustainable by fixed income and they start not having the ability to get care because it s so expensive, that s going to be on you. right now it s just politics. secretary price saying the cbo, they shouldn t be in this, and newt gingrich saying get rid of cbo, and the guy running the cbo is price s pick, and the white house estimates, the ones that will not have insurance is 26 million, higher than the cbo estimate. i think you have to explain to the american people why they disagree with the numbers. i think a lot of the numbers are fantasy. hold on a second, steven. if that number is fantasy, again, politico has a piece up right now that anybody can go and read, the white house s own internal estimate is more severe
where the interviewer was just plain hostile. they weren t being an interviewer, there being an attacker. after having a long career in this business, the news media has gotten worse, just as the academic community has gotten worse, they are more left wing, they are more monolithic and they are more angry. eric: mr. speaker, you have a piece up. what you mean? eric: mac he s actually doing what he campaigned on. nothing to be worst if you re a left-winger than to have president trump actually behave. i think the list of executive orders tells you more is coming, is coming fast, his declaration was to eliminate more than 75%
plain hostile. represented the left-wing world view. they were totally argumentative. they weren t being an interviewer, there being an attacker. after having a long career in this business, the news media has gotten worse, just as the academic community has gotten worse, they are more left wing, they are more monolithic and they are more angry. year-by-year. eric: mr. speaker, you have a piece up. what you mean? he s actually doing what he campaigned on.c: this has been an extraordinary first week. you look at the steps he has started to take. nothing can be worse if you are a left-winger thanpr to have president trump actually behave like a candidate trump. i think the list of executive orders tells you more is coming, is coming fast, his declaration
some of us say, gosh, so many hundreds of objects and modern technology and ships going through and why has no one been able to pick a piece up and say what it is. i love one of the stories and one of the tag lines that chad spoke about earlier, if you think about the sea state and how stormy this area has been and his term, it sticks in my mind. he called it bubble bath. if you think about the foam and the debris and just the way that the waves can be churned up, you know, if you go to the beach, you ll often see this. a satellite, you think of it 450 miles up in space. you can often see objects or reflections of things like foam that may look very bright by contrast to what the background of the water is. that can complicate the search, as well. at the end of the day, this is a difficult search because of the expanse of the area, as well. obviously, we know if this were to be debris from an airplane, arthur, it would have we re at 20 days here, it would have moved. so, even if th