it with you. we will not we will respect that code. all of you are quite disciplined about it. can i ask, was it a taped deposition, like all the others have been? yes. so, that tells us we can look to hear from him in the future. i want to ask, i mean, we went back and looked at every public hearing, including the one you led, people have defend about cipollone in every single hearing that you have showcased. can you just characterize how important it was to all of the sworn testimony you ve already shown the public to speak to him today? well, you know, i don t know that i can characterize it in that way. obviously, he was an important figure in the white house. many of the meetings that he attended, we have information from other participants, so it s
and unfortunately, i think sometimes politics gets in the way of that. but i m an advocate of an independent commission. and i guess the final thought is, given all that has happened politically and the investigation and the way the white house has responded to robert mueller, how confident are you that the intelligence agencies including the one you led are still independent in their analysis and able to speak truth to power? i have great confidence in my former colleagues at cia, fbi, nsa and others. i think the rank and file are continuing to do the work. but it is critically important that the leaders maintain that type of independence and are nonpartisan and apolitical. and i m hoping that the individuals who head up the cia and office of the director of national intelligence will put their partisanship behind them and really lead these agencies so that they speak proverbial truth to power because frequently it was very inconvenient, the truths that i would bring to the policy
and more to the point, they ve sent millions to the west. there s an awful lot of research on the subject and all the numbers tell the same story. why are they being ignored? our leaders like to boast to believe in science. they let data and hard evidence drive their policy. they are lying and never more obviously than in this case.ar they don t want to see the numbers. they actively suppress them. if you really cared about. america, you wouldn t want it to become europe. dangerous, divided, unstable. you wouldn t import a massive muslim minority into your country because it made you feel open-minded and virtuous and then hope for the best. that s a faith-based approach and it s nuts. we know exactly what will happen if we do that because we re watching this live on television from manchester right now. if you really cared about the country you led, figure out how to make sure that every person you imported of any religion
currently serves in the u.s. senate. in an op-ed for the hill, writing, immigration reform isn t just a la teen or or border state issue. matters to all, asian-americans, pacific islanders and all states. democrat from hawaii joins me from capitol hill. a pleasure to see you. how are you? how are you, jose? so glad you led with that intro. well it s true and it is about all america. exactly. there are more than one in three hawaiians that are from asian dissent. what would you like to stress as we sit down with the president tonight? let me emphasize as an immigrant myself my mother brought me to this country escaping a terribly abusive marriage in japan and had a vision for a better future for her children and that is something so many immigrants millions of immigrants who came to this country and who are here now hope for also. so what i would like to see is
their feet then america as w know it is going to fundamental fundamentally change. we just can t let that happen. and the people of massachusetts last night, i ve got to tel too many folks who stood there in the rain holding a sign too many folks who knocked on doors to say, we re better than that. we can build a country together that works for our families again. i believe thbarnicle. senator-elect warren t again, barnicle. isn t thatñ amazing? i love it. senator-elect warren. it s been many months since i encountered you in washington when you were just leaving the consumer bureau. and we talked about you running for the united states senate. i think you talked about it. yeah. mm-hmm. but you know, i think you d be the first to admit, admit teaching at harvard law school you led a within what have you learned aboself during the course of one of the greatest processes a person can go through, a campaign and like