precious metals. when you say $20 billion, over six months? is that what you re saying? right. you re saying gold and precious metals. why is that a big deal? the reason this is a big deal is because this is the way they can barter for other things. they have done this with other nations before. they have been trying to get around sanctions using the barter system and they have done it with other ways, having, you know, more money on one side, trading they have tried all different ways to get around it. now it opens up their ability to barter in gold and precious metals. this is a huge pressure release valve for them. and not talking about that worries me. we ought to know what the facts are of the deal. so if it s a good deal, i m not talking about trying to sell the deal. you expect the white house to do that. but we ought to argue about the facts of the deal and what it means and what we didn t get so we relieved pressure which they needed desperately, and we got really no
place? are there plans to open even more gates? right now, the way that it s designed is we open gates to maintain a certain amount of pressure and take some pressure off. it s a pressure release valve for the same system. it takes it out of the main stem system. the gates will be opened in a phased process, and new orleans district is going to make that decision based on what the river is doing and what kind of pressure is on the system. but as you probably saw in the footage yesterday, 10,000 cubic feet of water coming through one gate each, it looks impressive, but when you consider there is 1.5 million cubic feet per spekd on the main system, we re holding back basically 15 times what passes over niagara falls per second. the system is doing a fantastic
obstruction case. i don t think we really know what he s going to ask he s not going to be bound by any agreement as to what he ll ask. he s going to go where he thinks he needs to go, within the four corners as to what he s to investigate, and he s not going to be restrained. i don t think we can really figure out what s going to happen in that session. the backdrop of the new details we re learning about today is the president s twitter tirade against mueller. i think it s important to remember, this is a pressure cooker. last night we were talking about karen mcdougal and stormy daniels, now this, the putin phone call. donald trump says he likes to operate in chaos, he thinks the best ideas come out of that. i think what you see, twitter has always been his pressure release valve, it s the thing no
obstruction case. but, don, i don t think we really know what he s going to ask, and he s not going to be bound by any agreement as to what he ll ask. he s going to go where he thinks he needs to go. he s going to go within the four corners of the general charge he s got from the deputy attorney general as to what he s to investigate. and he s not going to be restrained. so i don t think we can really figure out what s going to happen in that session. and the backdrop of the new details we re learning about today is the president s twitter tirade against mueller and the investigation. that s the backdrop here. yeah. and i think it s important to remember, don, this is a pressure cooker. last night we were talking about summer zervos, karen mcduougalc and stormy daniels. now this, the putin phone call. donald trump says he likes to operate in chaos. he believes that s the way in which he works best. he thinks best ideas come out of that. but i think what you see is twitter has alway