minorities help persecuted minorities. i was prepositioned because of my training, we vetted people, got them ready, overcame a bunch of hurdles to get these christians out of iraq, out of isis territory where they were being persecuted. they faced the choice to convert to islam or die. we had to get them out. leland: this brings up an important point. folks who leave the agency, leave other dangerous parts of the american government service, go on to do lots of things. you went on to help these christians. you did work in the middle east. you did work in montemay grow. ienegro.is there an expect thats government protects the guys who gave so much for so long, even if at times you re doing things that people may not really like? i think the united states has an obligation to be a beacon of democracy and supporting the rule of law and we have seen countries, like our allies or
has been following the trial. were you surprised by gates testimony? was that well-played by the mueller team? did they expect that? did it go as planned or no? the gates testimony from somebody who has been in the trenches 33 years actually played out the way a lot of cooperators play out. i ll repeat the basic fundamentals. a cooperator is sun who is involved in someone who is involved in the conduct. the government would argue i would have loved to take the first grade librarian but we take the witnesses where we find they ll. he did get beat up. he pled guilty to lying, embezzle moneed money from the defendant which you don t always see and was met with i m not going to use the word coached or rehearsed, met with the government 20 times. the owns to that question the answer to that question is usually five times. 20 meetings seemed to jump out. the good news as you heard repeatedly is that the plea
doug prosecutor, du doug bur. your take on the delay on friday, were you surprised? i ve seen delays many, many times but not necessarily five hours. that did seem to kind of jump out as a very lengthy one. there s been speculation, we don t know for sure, it may have had something to do with a juror. what typically happens is in good faith a juror will say somebody in the hallway came up to me, said something. usually don t take five hours so it is hard to handicap. as you guys were discussing, the government has twice actually called out the judge, once the judge criticized the government for allowing a witness to be in a courtroom when the judge said that would be okay, because with government agents by the way, the regular exclusion rule doesn t apply. the second issue about why don t you goat a loan that actually closed, the government is right on that, because just because a loan doesn t close doesn t mean there could be some other theory. the dust-ups may have created
i think johanna is right is that there is difficulty and honestly they went to a rough patch in 2009 and 2010 but part of that is because of what they were doing. when you look at what the democratic agenda was, the government takeover of healthcare had a galvanizing effect on people because it was something that negatively affected their lives and made the motivated to go to the polls and vote out the democrats who supported that legislation. now, the galvanizing piece of legislation above is pushed is a tax-cut that helps 85 or 90% of the people and it s across the board. this is a good thing that happened is that of a bad thing. elizabeth: get johanna s response. yes, racine tax-cut wage growth but inflation may be challenging seen those benefits. that s exactly right, elizabeth. here s the problem.
more. there were unexpected delays. president trump took to twitter this morning to comment on the ongoing mueller probe. first asking why the fbi isn t handing over andrew mccabe s text messages to government authorities and then ask whether the fbi will ever regain what he calls its, quote, stellar reputation. this as andrew miller, former aid to roger stone during president trump s campaign, was held in contempt for defying a subpoena to testify in court earlier this month. meanwhile, across the river in alexandria, virginia, the fraud trial of paul manafort rolled into its ninth day. democrats tying that hearing back to president trump himself. as fa there s no honor among thieves. you don t know who to believe. you don t know if you can believe president trump, rick gates, paul manafort, stone. you don t know if you can believe any of them. this is one of the things where we have to trust the jury system and see what comes out of it. manafort s trial got off to a late start