trying to handle these things one at a time. so today there was this big announcement regarding kushner and whatsapp and ivanka trump. the white house responded to a letter from several weeks ago today, regarding the putin meetings. so they re sort of moving through this in sort of a slow and deliberate way, which you could also call slow walking. the white house is responding slowly and saying, you aren t going to get what you want. you re certainly not going to get it right now. and elijah cummings in his letter today, the oversite committee chairman, the line unrelated to substance, the line that really stood out to me from that letter, is elijah cummings saying, in this congress, the white house has not produced a single document, not a single page.
one at a time. so today there was this big announcement regarding kushner and whatsapp and ivanka trump. the white house responded to a letter from several weeks ago today regarding the putin meetings. so they re sort of moving through this in sort of a slow and deliberative way, which you could also call slow walking. the white house is responding slowly and saying, you aren t going to get what you want. you re certainly not going to get it right now. and elijah cummings in his letter today, the oversite committee chairman, the line unrelated to substance, the line that really stood out to me from that letter is elijah cummings saying that in this congress, the white house has not produced a single document, not a single page. and that is by design. yeah, that gets your
and whatsapp and ivanka trump. the white house responded to a letter from several weeks ago today, regarding the putin meetings. so they re sort of moving through this in sort of a slow and deliberate way, which you could also call slow walking. the white house is responding slowly and saying, you aren t going to get what you want. you re certainly not going to get it right now. and elijah cummings in his letter today, the oversite committee chairman, the line unrelated to substance, the line that really stood out to me from that letter, is elijah cummings saying, in this congress, the white house has not produced a single document, not a single page. and that is by design. yeah, that gets your attention. and slow walking is a time
documents related to president trump s communications with the russian president vladimir putin. democrats investigating whether trump or his associates try to miz represent trump s meetings with putin. the white house is saying, well, you re never going to know, because guess what? we re not kbgoing to be telling you anything. calling the white house arguments and stone walling disingenuous. now, this kmaz as the nation s top general joseph dunford warns russia is working on new missiles, ships and aircraft aimed at making it harder for nato to operate, as in harder for the united states to defend its european allies. out front right now steve hall, retired chief of operations and jack weiss. so the white house refusing to hand over these documents. obviously, you know, coming on the same day we re hearing from general dunford. these putin meetings, do you
policy implication? well, first of all, as has been said, it s very critical we protect this mueller investigation. here we have a situation where, you know, mueller is investigating russian meddling in our elections and now you have a situation where russia is trying to distort, if not our legal system, certainly the perception of our legal system. so we, in congress, need to make sure we are doing everything to ensure the credibility of the mueller investigation, in terms of what ultimately will be brought to courts, but also in the court of public opinion. right. let me get on these newly exposed putin meetings. this is where colleague versus power. your colleagues talk about subpoenaing the translators who were in some meeting. the new one, apparently no transcript at all. listen to secretary of state madeleine albright on this. i think it s totally unusual and really, really dangerous. so this is kind of operating in a parallel universe that makes it very difficult to know w