and there was for a time some bipartisan agreement on really the core elements of this. many months later it s done. how disappointd are you and what s the path forward? listen, i m not disappointed at all. i m a realist and i never believe that this thing is going to pass. tim scott said from the beginning that qualified immunity was a nonstarter. he did talk about holding an agency accountable without individual officers. we ve heard just lip service. the president and his vp have forgotten the people who put them in office. look what they re doing on the border, sending out flights of haitians, seven to nine a day. it s disgusting how, you know, they are treating us and how they are feigning that they want something done. everyone is clutching their pearls. but the attorneys representing the family named this bill after george floyd understood with this the $27 million history breaking settlement after that and a chauvin conviction little
regulatory overreaches that he pulled back on. and he s made the left crazy at the same time. but he doesn t play a lot of the washington d.c. games. he doesn t like the media and doesn t need the media attention. that s another way to be successful in this administration. not to seek a claim for what you re doing. time for trump cabinet liabilities after year one. molly? it has to be attorney general jeff sessions. there were high hopes of someone of his caliber to lead this department. i don t know what caused him to recuse himself. he seemed to not be aware that he was turning over the department to people that would not hold the agency accountable for criminal leaks, for they refuse to turn over information to congressional investigators. they re not holding their own agency accountable. he really donald trump really needed someone that was strong and understood the political winds and the opposition and how they would work through that department. so his stepping down
another $5.6 billion. i guess i would be more draconian about it. i think the civil service laws i tell commissioner koskinen you ve been in there since december of 2013. enough. out. go. i would start firing people. it s not fair to the american people. i appreciate with your i agree. trying to create a solution and it might be clever. the american people are at the point of off with their heads. nobody in private enterprise would keep a job whether it s the united states congress or people at the irs. people are having federal employee unions because it makes it very difficult. the civil service laws make it very difficult. we understand why they are there, but it also makes it very difficult to get rid of some of these employees that are not doing their job. so therefore, one of the ways that congress does have that they can hold an agency
broken codes. there are arguments that they suspected this all along. the question that jill abramson told me she gets all the time is who are you to choose? who are you to get to make that decision to publish? we re talking about the demand side of the leak equation. why do journalists get to make this decision and not the government? we depend on journalists to make decisions like that all the time to decide what is news and what s not news? to gather as much truth as they possibly can in a very careful way, report it as carefully as they can and quite honestly if not a journalist, who? because if they re not out there asking questions every day and reporting them to the public so that the public can make informed decisions at the ballot box and elsewhere, there is going to be no ability in this country to hold anybody that we ve elected to congress or appointed to an agency accountable. this is all about accountability. one thing that strikes me is