schiff took that call and told the it was a spoof call and said you ve got dirt, i want the dirt, i ll have my staff follow-up. i want to know if he knows the whistleblower, who the whistleblower is, how many times did he meet with him. how many times did his staff meet with him. did his staff work on writing that whistleblower report? why did the cia change the rules and allow hearsay? because we know now they don t have enough hearsay to get anything to stick so they are he a beginning to wiggle around and try to find something else, obstruction, intimidation, bribery. neil: in the meantime with marie yovanovitch s testimony yesterday, the president s been criticized for tweeting about it in the middle of her testimony and adam schiff then using that to say in real-time the president was tampering with a witness, and all. what did you think of all of that? even ken starr said it was probably not the wisest thing to
final version. as soon as we were made away, we updated it to include the proper citations. doug, you first, jason. this is a mistake. it s not a big mistake. but candidly, you re running for president, you ve had troubles with plagiarism in the past and you re the front-runner this, is the last thing you need. that being said, given his lead in the primary and the lead over donald trump, i don t think this is a fatal problem. but this is bad staff work. given the past, he needs to get things more buttoned down if he s going to win this nomination and election. jason, final word to you? well, yeah. it is that staff work. but it s bad work by joe biden. he was first elected in 1972. a lot of questions are going to be why is it that you have to pick up somebody else s plan. why is it you didn t think of this while you were in office for the decades that you were in office. if you have this problem of plagiarism and you keep doing it repetitively, it s more than
if you re under strain, if you can t feed your family, if you re worried about being able to pay the rent or the mortgage, it can legitimately make you sick. and if they take something, they re not considered fit for duty, right? they can t go in they re called disqualified. they re disqualified. normally they would do staff work, but that s furlough work, that s furloughed. you have to stay home. so that s what we re seeing happen right now. it s just it s a tremendous amount of stress on a tremendous amount of people who already have so much stress in their work environment. they re highly trained, highly educated officials to deal with the stress and their work environment, but not in their home environment, not paying the bills, not putting food on the table for their family. this week your organization along with pilots and flight attendants wrote a letter to congress and the president warning of the potential dire impact of the shutdown. part of that was in a risk averse
have any recollection of. i m not sure if the president thinks that people physically take rakes and go through the whole forest floor to clean it out. it s unclear exactly what he is picturing there. then to be standing amid the wreckage, you know, of the town that had been completely decimated and having to be reminded by reporters of exactly where he was standing and where he d visited. i think it s an indication, number one, of some potentially shoddy, you know, staffwork of them not making very clear to him exactly where he was, repeatedly, but also this example, once again, of the president kind of finding ways, it just seems to be the way that he approaches things sbri intrinsical intrinsically, finding ways to nitpick and criticize and mistakes he makes that prevent him from being able to bring people together in these moments of tragedy. indeed, the president of finland said they never discussed the cleaning and the raking of the forest floor. people of finland, though, can
that it s suffering while citing a conversation with finland that nobody in that country seems to have any recollection of. i m not sure if the president thinks people physically take rakes and go through the whole forest floor to clean it out. it s not sure what he is picturing there. then to be standing amid the wreckage, you you know, of the town that had been completely decimated and having to be reminded by reporters of exactly where he was stand and where he had visited. you know, i think it s an indication, number one, of some potentially shoddy, you know, staff work of them not making very clear to him exactly where he was repeatedly, but also this example once again of the president finding ways it seems to be the way he approaches things intrinsically, but finding ways to knit pick and criticize and mistakes that he makes that prevent him from being able to bring people together in these moelts of tragedy. indeed. the president of finland said they never discussed the cle