about. she was tough, she was smart, she was not afraid to push back. and most importantly, she was nonpartisan. i interviewed a lot of people about fiona hill, a lot of her good friends. not one of them could tell me what her politics are. and i think you saw in her very sort of clear assessment of what was happening inside the trump white house. you also write about her decision to serve under president trump and you talked to friends who frankly seemed a little surprised by this decision to do so. and you write that she got off to an uncertain start. president trump wants mistook her for a low-level of support staff. this morning the president distancing himself from a lot of the people that testified, saying he barely knows them. what do you make of her relationship with president trump as it were when she was in the west wing? frankly, i m not sure she had much of a direct relationship with president trump. she is somebody who was asked to go into the trump white house.
their brand to succeed back in their sort of blue and purple states. and i think even voting to convict the president is a very difficult vote for them. one of the things that s been rumbling around in washington circles has been could there be some bombshell before this ends up getting to articles of impeachment and could john bolton be the one dropping the bombshell? because he is really involved in a lot of this based on the other witness testimony. he sent a cryptic tweet this morning. he s been off twitter for a couple of months. he came back on and said for the back story, stay tuned. the president was asked about this tweet and i want to play for you what he had to say that caught a lot of people right in the ear. watch. john bolton has just gotten back on twitter. his account was frozen for two months. did you guys freeze his account? no, of course not. of course not. no, i actually had a good relationship with john. we disagreed on some things and some methods, but i act
jobs and they re going to hurt people who are adults who are trying to get off cigarettes and onto something more healthy. the vaping industry portrays their product as a great transition product for people who are trying to cut cigarettes. that s the debate that s going to take place, is back and forth between those people who are concerned about children s health examine those people who are concerned about jobs and the health of people who are adult smokers. the wildcard is the president and the first lady. the president attributed a lot of his sfw interest in this to melania trump and he referred to baron as being someone he was concerned about. so there s a question over whether they ll be there or send somebody. the ce of of juul, along with people, as you mentioned,
boehner and adam served as deputy chief of staff to former senator harry reed. we ve seen a dozen witnesses, five days. what i hear from my sources in and around the white house close to the president are, so, yeah, this wasn t all great, but none of it really ended up moving the needle. is there a greater truth to that? i do think it s a disingenuous spin. i think they will say nothing moved the needle no matter what evidence comes forward. if the needle is number of republicans that will vote to impeach the president. i m including them in that category. what will herd said yesterday, even the moderate republicans have probably already decided that they re going to vote to acquit the president. it doesn t matter what facts come forward, they ve already made their decision. so they re going to tell anybody who asks that nothing moved the needle. this is exactly right. if you look at this from the
she s a russia expert with a harvard ph.d. she had written a 500 page book on a profile of vladimir putin. it was a surprise to her friends that she would even go into the white house. because trump has spoken admiringly of putin and he has refused to accept the idea that russia meddled in the 2016 election. so when she went in, she was going in with a purpose to try to advance russia policy, probably to try to make sure nothing bad happened. and that was, i think, how she viewed her role, was to advance u.s. foreign policy interests and to perhaps put a check on this president s worst impulses. john, as somebody who knows fiona hill, your categorizing her testimony in sort of three different ways, what she said, who she is, and how she delivered it. explain what stood out to you the most. well, in terms of what she said, i think there were three things that jumped out at me. first, she was the only witness