Dispute. Now turning attention to the ron johnson letter if i may. Yes. On august 31st, Senator Johnson is getting ready to travel to ukraine on September 5th with senator with murphy. And he wanted johnson wanted the aid released so he calls the president and sought permission to be the bearer of good news. Right. The president said im not ready to lift the aid. They had this Senator Johnson, he writes a tenpage letter, very detailed, and he gives some remarkable detail and i would like to read it. Its on page 6. I this is Senator Johnson speaking, he said i asked him whether there was some kind of
arran arrangement where ukraine would take some action and the hold would be lifted. Without hesitation, Senator Johnson says, President Trump immediately denied such an arrangement existed and he started cursing. He said, no way. President trump said no way. I would never do that. Who told you that . And Senator Johnson goes on to say that President Trumps reactionnt here was adamant, vehe
a staggering 90% of their deposits are uninsured. that s an, nomly compared to both banks in this country. what s happening is a lot of silicon valley vcs have reached out to me pushing a narrative that it would create a bank run in america if silicon valley bank isn t bailed out and they re trying to create a fear of one and that could become a cell-fulfilling prophecy which is dangerous. it had exposure to interest rate-tethered securities that they could have hedged. a normal bank would have done that and sill son valley bank did not. i don t think we should reward that bad behavior and bad mismanagement and companies that put their money in a concentrated way into that one bank and i don t think we should be rewarding that in a bailout. i was against the student loan bailouts that president biden from posed and you can t talk out of the silicon valley bank should be bailed out while
alternative is less palatable for the respondent. you issue a subpoena and you re trying to get documents, one technique you can use is try to talk to the a document custodian or somebody in the function about whatom documents exist. chairman chaffetzs during his eraur used to have document production status hearings where you bring in officials and get the lay of the land. officials nomly are supposed to be directly responsible serving the interests. you can saber rattle, legal to saber rattle about holding somebody in contempt. oftentimes witnesses who are reluctant to cooperate and come forward when you attach a contempt proceeding or a prospective contempt proceeding to their name a lot of times that changes the outcome and
russian parliament pass add law in 2006 that nomly at least makes it three for vladimir putin to order the murder of anything on everybody providing he believes them to be a threat to russia tore a terrorist. when duma passed that law we saw a urd inner of alexandr lifnenko, ex-russian spy killed by dropping radioactive material into his tea in a london hotel. with those assassinations, and others in britain, both attempted and completed and others in other parts of the world maybe putin and russia never feared what the american consequences or international consequences might be are tracking down people and murdering them, but offing this new guy in berlin in broad daylight, in germany s capital city literally just down the block from angela merkel s
learner who had been a big never trump strategist in 2016 and that definitely got the president s attention. he certainly wasn t happy about that. the difference is that normally you would have in the west wing staff president s staff someone who controls the political operation. and that s just not the case. nomly you do have those people. but as we mentioned at the top constantly shiving each other. full circle. alex burns, john avlon, thank you very much. now to this a cnn investigation prompting uber to make some big changes designed to protect passengers. we have the latest details for you. your company is constantly evolving.