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Events at issue in this case i asked her what trump is going through right now, look, it just really sucks to be in court to be a defendant. It is just one of the stressful things you could possibly go through and of course trump being who he is, everything takes on an extraordinary nature. But for anyone to be in that seat, its one of the worst things you can go through and your entire life david, i think really importantly, we should note here for people who may say, why is this guy testifying and revealing all this information . He has an Immunity Agreement prevent exactly with the government. So hes been involved, if interestingly, going back to about approximately 2017 he has been involved in these investigations into whether this was criminal conduct, these Hush Money Payments. This was first something that was primarily investigated at the federal level or the manhattan district attorney, the state investigation took took a little bit of backseat as they often do when youre deal
This opinion which has never been confirmed by the fact expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power. And the sec relies workings of the prevailing Economic System. He has repeatedly condemned idolatry of the market and has said in the speech to which president carter referred to in bolivia when capital becomes an idle you get pain, and death and destruction and the stench of the dung of the devils. These are strong words. I would like to make the case the popes critique of freemarket ideology is traditional, systemic, ethical and finally anthropological. It is to grimsley traditional, Pope Benedict xvi said the conviction the economy must be autonomous, shielded from influences of moral character has led man to abuse the economic process and a thoroughly destructive way. Pope john paul the second said the state of inequality between individuals and nations not only still exists, it is increasing. It is obvious a fundamental defect or series of def
Absolutely not. I just hope that you will stay on this because, as you know, better than any of us, if you dont have good intelligence, youre not only going into the battle blind, if its cooked intelligence, youre going into the battle with one hand tied behind your back. So i just am extremely concerned about this issue. This is a question for the record. You use the term progress in your statement a number of times, progress here and progress there. Not now but for the record i would like a very specific list of what you consider progress, where we are where we are succeeding because generally it doesnt look like that. It looks more like a stalemate. I would like a onepager on where you think progress has been made. Id be happy to provide that, sir. Well get that to you right away. Thank you. I think from a broad question of policy and this comes off of a lot of the other discussion weve had, assad and isis are evil twins. Isis largely came into existing in reaction to assad. And in
From manchester. Speakers include five president ial candidates, former secretary of state hillary clinton, vermont senator bernie sanders, and lincoln chafee, former Maryland Governor martin omalley. Saturday at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. Cspan campaign 2016. Taking you on the road to the white house. At the oversight role of congress and u. S. Intelligence and National Security manners matters. David sanger of the New York Times moderates this discussion. And welcomemorning to day two. We continue our examination of the state of u. S. Intelligence thosehe perspective of who provide oversight from congress. Congress plays a Critical Role in ensuring the health and operation of intelligence. The house are meant select Community Committee on intelligence [indiscernible] we are pleased to have congressman devin nunes and the ranking minority member congressman adam schiff with us this morning. They represent the great state and have long and distinguished r