Questions about conversations he had after he left the administration and the people who played no role in the administration, have never been in it. There is no plausible claim of privilege that can apply to those circumstances. What is more, the only questions he would answer questions that had been scripted for him by the white house. As set of 25 questions that had been written out for him, to which the answer to each was be no. Must be no. Whenever we probed beyond the four corners of the specific wording of the question, he refused to answer. That is notnot how executive privilege works. There were questions along the lines of, did you ever meet with x . With the answer was invariably no. When we asked the question did , the answer was yes. The question was mislead the committee asked whether any communications existed between mr. Bannon and another individual. To answera refusal any questions that would have brought out the full facts. That is not have privilege works. That is h
Welcome, everyone. It is really tremendous to see so many people in the room for what is a really important issue. It does not get enough tension. For the next hour were going to focus on the peculiar way we choose or president. Not by direct selection of our people, but indirect manner. Electors who then go through process to select our president. Louder. Okay. Can you hear me now if i speak like this . Okay. The election of duty experience that was disheartening in other ways with our panelists will get into, but it was not an election aimed at the entire country. It was an election aimed at about a dozen battleground states if you did not live in a battleground state. You were essentially a bystander in the election. The experience has led many people to ask why. Why do we continue to have this system and what are the processfect proces prospects of doing something about it. Im going to speak about the Electoral College. The constitution sets the rules of the college. To become pres
Abandoning all the Peace Process and we do that but you really have to find a new International Alliance palestinians seek a new Global Partner to help mediate peace with israel plus this is no street party people are out in force in a brazilian city to protest against a military move. A u. S. Retailers criticized for sitting close marketed towards muslim women. Syrian Government Forces and russian air strikes have killed at least one hundred ten people since sunday in an intense bombardment of eastern go to the rebel held enclave has come on increasing fire in recent days local observers believe the attacks are the beginning of a major offensive the United Nations is calling for an immediate end to the targeting of civilians in the area near the capital damascus it says the humanitarian situation is spiraling out of control according to the union of medical care and relief the bombing has destroyed five medical facilities nearly four hundred thousand people remain trapped in eastern g
This shutdown is difficult because it wasnt quite clear what would happen. Even though shorter time we still had about one third of the National Park units shutdown. Yet reports of graffiti and looting. In todays we so many things happening inside parks. With one third of the parts closed many a shutout. When that happens are there no staff to help with the guides or safety or things like that . The guides are not considered essential. Bathrooms are close. Youll have a patrol person. It was so parks are 2 million acres, theres no way you can guarantee safety. Its a small crew that would be there for safety. As far as food and money collected that was affected two. No fees were collected in the Visitor Centers are closed and interpreters can to their job. People were on their own. We did see intrusions into the park snowmobiles and things like that, impacts to parks happen just in two days. That would continued it wouldve been very serious. How do they prepare for this . The information
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