we re meeting in my office and this is what i like in my office. i get trying to raise his profile and be a household name and go on a speaking circuit one day when there are such things again but it just seems kind of pathetic to me. i agree with you. and that was really what made me so upset and why you knew i had to to tell the story. nobody would have known if he wore a massk in my office. our governor today came out and defended him of course. didn t say one word about high cancer and, by the way, his wife also has breast cancer, didn t even mention my name. he couldn t even call me the senator. he just said they and he was talking about how the surgeon general offered other options, which is going outside or in the hallway instead of wearing a
one-to-one basis, you hope doctors are decent human beings, although a lot of them have lousy bedside manners. you would hope on a personal basis someone would be a decent human being if anybody says would you please put on a mask, we re meeting in my office and this is what i like in my office. i get trying to raise his profile and be a household name and go on a speaking circuit one day when there are such things again, but it just seems kind of pathetic to me. i agree with you. and that was really what made me so upset and why i knew i had to tell the story. here we were in my private office. nobody would have known if he wore a mask in my office. it s not going to hurt his credibility with the maga folks. i don t know why he couldn t do it. the compassion is gone. our governor today came out and defended him of course. didn t say one word about my cancer. and, by the way, his wife also has breast cancer, didn t even mention my name. he couldn t even call me the senator. he
leading, they are following. they are doing they have views, maybe, that are at odds with their constituents but they re so afraid of losing their seats in primary elections that they capitulate and they re fundamentally abdicating leadership. i think he s trying to be critical of them. i think we do know there are some instances where there are literally members of congress who are afraid in the sense that they think their lives are in jeopardy, with some of their crazier voters, so there s that. but i think it definitely lets them too much off the hook because i think even though george is being critical of them, george will is being critical of them, i think it s not it s not, you can t by using the language of terror, it makes it sound like it s okay. well, of course, you capitulate to terrorists because it s like they have a gun to your head. they don t have a gun to your head. all they have to your head is the threat of voting you out of office and that is nothing. that s a
list. the only way we ll hear from them is if we go to their speaking agent and pay them thousands of dollars to speak because bolton is on the speaking circuit which is incredible when you think that perhaps the most consequential thing the congress could do is weigh impeachment and he won t talk to them but will give speeches for money. and the democrats have made the decision and i understand it. i m not sure it is the right decision, that it will take too long for the courts to resolve it. even if they think they re going to win. and they are right, that you re talking months not weeks to resolve these issues. and they feel like impeachment has to be done on a pace that simply doesn t allow that kind of delay. that is the choice they made. which means no no bolton, no mulvaney, no giuliani. david, what are you looking and think is going to happen as these hearings continue? listen, i think today was the high water mark for democrats presumably. you put your best people on, th
a drone strike that the administration believes, according to bolton, according to this attendee, that was carried out by iran on a nato convoy in afghanistan. according to this attendee who was in the room, wolf. john bolton had some very scathing things to say about the president and the trump administration just days after departing the administration, wolf? he s going to be lively, i suspect. and apparently there are reports out he s getting ready to write a book, do tv, go out on the speaking circuit. so we re going to be hearing presumably a lot more from him, as well. jim acosta over at the white house, thanks very much. we re also following a rather tense standoff right now, pitting america s top intelligence official against congress. the acting director of national intelligence defying a subpoena to hand over a secret whistleblower complaint. let s go to our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju, who s up on capitol hill. manu, the refusal to turn over the complaint