though at this point so much of the criticism from republicans is not on the substance as we talked about, is not on the alleged quid pro quo, it s on the process and how this is going down. i think that that is the key point here, hallie. the move that you just mapped out by senator graham fits into this broader strategy that we are seeing play out by the white house, by republicans on capitol hill. they are trying to fight this battle on process. that is how they re trying to win over the court of public opinion to say wait a minute, this has not been an open process. that s why you saw that tactic yesterday on capitol hill a delay tactic. important to point out eventually we anticipate and house democrats are signaling they are going to start to hold hearings out in the open, but yesterday was really an attempt to say wait a minute, we disagree with how this is being carried out. so stephanie grisham, white house press secretary on the airwaves today saying that the president like
played yesterday. we ve always been very public about the fact that the inquiry will go through a number of phases, the phase that we re in right now requires, you know, some discretion in order to make sure that process has integrity. by the way, it s a process that has included all of the relevant members of the committees, democrats and republicans in the process. 47 of them, yes. it s a stunt intended to introduce more chaos because they believe the more chaotic this thing looks, the less credibility the outcome will have. it s always been the plan, of course, to have pluublic hearin and do this work in a public fashion. it is my view we should move with some hayhaze. we are getting the information we need to proceed, i think others may need more, but we are at the point where i think the public s view of this being fairly well formed.
how permanent that cease-fire may be on the ground. a new investigation into commerce secretary wilbur ross. the national archives looking into his use of personal e-mails for official government business. in court filings the doj said the commerce department should not be required to search through the secretary s personal accounts even though searches found four accounts with 280 work related e-mail chains over a year and a half. as many as eight current and former trump administration officials have been reported to use personal e-mail at some point for business, including the president s daughter, her husband and senior adviser jared kushner as well. and save in more ways than one. for small prices,
president trump has lifted the sanctions on turkey. and i want to know, if you believe that was the appropriate or correct move given that we haven t seen significant action from turkey at this point on that cease-fire? do you think it was too early or the right way to go? i don t have the benefit of all of the insight the president does in making those decisions. i will say i do think there needs to be consequences for turkey s actions not just in syria but the desire to purchase the aircraft system from russia. in a lot of ways beyond just syria turkey is not acting like an ally of the united states of america and they should not get all of the benefits that allies get when they don t act like an ally. that doesn t mean that we should keep tens of americans between armies of tens of thousands who have been fighting one another since the end of world war ii and will likely be fighting each other for quite some time in the future. those are tough words for turkey. do you believe th