for not being as obsessed as some new york and washington types are with this gentleman named preet bharara, give us the thumbnail sketch of who he is, why he s in the hearing roomnd why it s important? preet bharara was the prosecutor for the southern district of new york, very important area that includes wall street, that includes terror threats and includes trump tower. we was asked in a very unusual one-on-one meeting or several meetings at trump tower during the transition to stay on as prosecutor and then he was informed he would be fired with the u.s. attorneys which is a lawful right any president can exercise, but he unlike most of the others, insisted on staying on until he was certain he was being removed because it contradicted his prior messaging from the president himself at the time the president-elect. secondly, what we now know is a pattern of at least two, is that preet bharara was concerned about the president s repeated efforts to have direct phone call communica
into some of the players a bit later, including the format. opening statements, volleys of questions and so on. our justice chief correspondent pete williams along with our players in the lead-up coverage. pete, we have some experts assembled as well to talk about sally yates. give us the thumbnail sketch. who is sally yates and what about her assignment today, what she can and can t talk about, is going to be difficult? former career prosecutor in georgia then became the u.s. attorney nominated and confirmed by the obama administration. then she became deputy attorney general when lore rhetta lynch attorney general. so she s had a partisan and nonpartisan role in the government. she was asked to stay over by the trump administration to be acting attorney general until jeff sessions could get confirmed. that didn t last, because after she said justice department lawyers should not defend the trump travel restrictions, the
done it. we have a timeline for doing this and we have not changed that and we are on schedule, and we have to do obamacare first because the law is collapsing so fast, and the insurance companies need to know what the lay of the land is going to look like in 2018, and if we waited to end obama in the summer, you would have people with zero plans left. we feel because the law is collapsing, there s an urgent nature and that s why obamacare is first. then in the second budget, which you need budget to do tax reform n. our spring budget, that s where we do tax reform. the way our budget process works, we pass the budget and we go to the policy and that takes you into summer, and spring and summer is tax reform, and winter and spring is obamacare, just to give a thumbnail sketch of the plan. when you go to a town hall meeting about the people that enjoy the benefits of the affordable care act and they are
joining us. we re so happy to have you because you can bring us the facts about what these refugees go through in terms of vetting. i know you described it as torturous for the refugees. can you give us a thumbnail sketch on the steps they go through. certainly. so especially from the 7 particular countries but for all refugees most of them have to register and after that they have biometrics done and then they go through an international organization and that dpensd on the country they re in. in turkey it s the international catholic migration commission. in nairobi it s church world service and then they continue to do more interviews and more vetting with all of the family members. they collect all the documentation that the refugee
western together and at that point we turned back to explorerrer s guild. let s write the become i said you write the book. so that s that s actually how it started. john, what s the thumbnail sketch of it? well, it s world war i 1 and there is secret society of explorers covering the globe trying to find a mythical city. we learned the war and fate of civilization are both tied in with this city and secret. it s critical that it s t. be found and found by the right people. just as important to prevent the wrong people from getting there what is the city, can it be found who is getting there first and do we know who should find it and who shouldn t. we don t know until the end. i love even the pages. where did you find paper like this? it s like amazing. the drawing are amazing. the idea was to go back in time. when we are talking about trying to get somebody to read the classics to our kids. you have got to read mark twang and kipling and jewels veteran. we are reaching back i