anymore-up in what trump associates refer to as a perjury trap. if you answer these questions to me now why not answer them to robert mueller under oath? because they were looking to get us for lies, for slight misstatements. i looked at what happened to people and it was very unfair. you didn t answer questions on obstruction? wait a minute. i did answer questions. i answered them in writing. not on obstruction. i don t know, i answered a lot of questions. they gave me questions. i answered them in writing. not on obstruction. look, george, you re being a little wise guy. okay? which is typical for you. just so you understand. very simple. it is very simple. there was no crime. there was no collusion. house democrats want to hear from mcgahn and mueller for that matter in person before the judiciary committee, which will hold its second hearing on the mueller report next thursday. democrats were handed something of a setback today in their oversight efforts. we ll ex
perjury trap. if you answer these questions to me now why not answer them to robert mueller under oath? because they were looking to get us for lies, for slight misstatements. i looked at what happened to people and it was very unfair. you didn t answer questions on obstruction? wait a minute. i did answer questions. i answered them in writing. i answered a lot of questions. they gave me questions. i answered them in writing. not on obstruction. look, george, you re being a little wise guy. okay? which is typical for you. just so you understand. very simple. it is very simple. there was no crime. there was no collusion. house democrats want to hear from mcgahn and mueller for that matter in person before the judiciary committee, which will hold its second hearing on the mueller report next thursday. democrats were handed something of a setback today in their oversight efforts. we ll explain this. the justice department today said the treasury department doesn t have to gi
answer to any of those logical well-reasoned whys. director mccabe is right that the attorney general should want to know if he s focussed on national security or the rule of law or the integrity of our electoral process, if on the other hand he s mainly concerned with defending donald trump like he s a defense attorney, then he probably doesn t want to know. unfortunately when he look at the attorney general s recent actions there s no reason to have confidence in his ability to represent the united states as opposed to the president. just with this incident with the tax returns, the the justice department wrote a memo that said that the that the treasury department doesn t have to turn over the tax returns. that s in direct conflict with a memo that we now know a treasury department employee wrote that said that the treasury secretary doesn t have a choice. he must turn over those records.
not only new sanction, enforcement of alleged sanctions, treasury department doesn t have enough people enforcing the sanctions in place. it s a question of political will. does president trump have the political will to impose sanctions on the backers? so, yeah so that would mean putting pressure on china through sanctions that are you suggesting to get them to enforce the sanctions that exist on in,? absolutely. is america prepared to go that far? i don t know. you would think not. we haven t done that in the past, we haven t done it in this administration t. sanctions are severe. it could be cut off the trade with china. that s probably not financial to happen, what would u could happen are sanction on chinese banks, large fines or designations as money laundering concerns. is this action by the trump administration strike you as something is that would compel north korea to come to the table or to give up its nuclear
if there were a deal to come out of the talks that is the beginning of a difficult process. it s good news they re meeting but it s no cause for any great hope unfortunately. that makes me want to run from the room actually because the president has said he ll accept this deal, this temporary deal with no republican provisions. how is that negotiating, jason? it is in a way. there s a new york times article, talking about the president says the republicans want me to implement romney s platform and pretty much resign. he s not saying can we at least get the debt ceiling fixed or we don t take the economy but not for his presidency but every presidency over the next two generations if this apores to be a good negotiating tactic we ll never get it back. he s trying to fix that. the main issue is trust. senator collins was talking about the effects of not raising the debt ceiling. she says that republicans some republicans are skeptical because the treasury department