i need you. i need you to get vaccinated when it s your turn and when you can find an opportunity. and to help your family, your friends, your neighbors gets vaccinated as well. here s the point. if we do all this, if we do our part, if we do this together, by july the 4th, there s a good chance you, your family and friends will be able to get together in your backyard or neighborhood and have a cookout and barbecue and celebrate independence day. that doesn t mean large events with lots of people together, but it does mean small groups will be able to get together. after this long, hard year, that will make this independence day something truly special, where we mark our independence as a nation, but we begin to mark or independence from this virus. president biden announcing last night his goal of 100 million shots in 100 days will be met and beaten. when i came into office, you may recall i set a goal that many of you set was kind of way over the top. i said i intended
they were very public. they were telling people to arm up and come to washington with, quote, paramilitary gear and supplies. roger stone didn t have any sort of plausible explanation for not knowing precisely what was going to happen that day. tell me how much these subpoenas suggest that premeditation and conspiracy and how far the tentacles go into trump s inner political circle. how much do you think that is in focus, reading these letters? you know, i always shy away from predicting, speculating, suggesting that which i cannot publish in the newspaper with the standards of the washington post, very high standards, but i will say that your sniffer is very attuned. i see behind this as an investigative reporter an effort on the part of the committee to tie and investigate the potential ties to the president and especially the former
messages, emails, texts, that showed the truth of what happened in 2016 that he had many written records that could help the committee establish what had actually happened. but roger stone didn t do that. he didn t even come close. instead he repeatedly lied to the house intelligence committee. he did it because if he had told the truth, as he said before, it wasn t pretty, it would look bad. and so instead he told these lies. roger stone did all of this to obstruct an investigation by the house intelligence committee into russian interference in the 2016 election. the committee was undertaking a critical investigation about an important moment in our nation s history. the house intelligence committee was trying to learn the truth about what had happened in the 2016 election, and roger stone, he was doing his best to stop it. and that is why after you ve listened to all the evidence in this case and you ve examined the documents and heard the witnesses, we are confident that you will r
because it s important people have been asking lots of questions. the president never sat down for an interview with mueller. but he did submit written questions and sources are telling cnn that the president claimed that roger stone didn t tell him about wikileaks and never informed of the 2016 trump tower meeting. we don t know if mueller believes the president told the truth or not, do we? no, we really don t. given the doj s policy given indictment of a president, i think the lack of an indictment doesn t mean anything and the devil is in the details of the report. i will say i find it very unusual that mueller concluded the investigation without interviewing the president or at least trying to seek that interview so one thing that s interesting is to find out what steps mueller took to get a sitdown interview with trump and why he ultimately decided he was not going to pursue a subpoena or try to compel the testimony and maybe he had enough
congressional investigations and stuff in the southern district looking at more closely trump finance issues but the idea that we ll see some kind of russia conspiracy collusion charge just doesn t seem no, that s not going to happen. when i say the next phase, the next phase for us, this is what we re talking about now, will it be released? is in the report? will congress subpoena for information? that is the next phase for journalist and what people want to know. the democrats are saying we want it all out there. so they will fight for it even if it takes a subpoena. they want robert mueller to testify. let me get back to the questions because it s important people have been asking lots of questions. the president never sat down for an interview with mueller. but he did submit written questions and sources are telling cnn that the president claimed that roger stone didn t tell him about wikileaks and never informed of the 2016 trump tower meeting.