Postelection standoff between the Trump Administration and the Biden Campaign. Day and it 8 45, leo shane discusses the fallout from the defense secretarys firing. A week ago this morning, the results of the 2020 election were unknown. By saturday morning, joe biden had garnered enough electoral votes, and was declared the winner. President trump and his republican allies have been contesting that, but states are standing by the results, and legal efforts so far have yielded no change in votes. Good morning. It is veterans day, november 11, 2020. This is washington journal. We will talk about the continuing standoff in this first hour. We want your calls this year. If you are a supporter of joe biden and Kamala Harris, the line is 202 7488000. Supporters of donald trump and mike pence, 202 7488001. All others, or if you did not vote, the line 202 7488002. Also, send us a text if you would like. It is 202 7488003. Tell us your name and where you are texting from. Andwitter cspanwj faceb
You tweeted about that, saying the curious thing about the memo is it does not accuse the fbi or justice with any particular law. There are legal standards for warrant applications, but it does not reference them. Why is that important or do you think this memo is just meant to make a statement . Mr. Heath i do not know what the intention is. I am wary of anybody, including the authors of this memo, who are trying to make assessments about peoples motives. But it is interesting to me that there is a pretty clear Fourth Amendment standard. There are hundreds of fairly recent cases on this about what kind of information the government has to put into a warrant application. And the memo does not really say how, leaving out the fact that steele was a paid opposition researcher would violate the standard. It is a hard thing to do. The memo talks about what was left out of the fisa application, but not what was included. We do not know what other evidence the fbi had. Do not know what the fb
Is a clear thinker, a straight talker, and says what he thinks. He is, i think, serving the administration and the country extraordinarily well. The format we are going to use today is questionandanswer. Im going to lead off with a question or two for kevin and then hes kind enough to be willing to accept questions from the audience. He has a hard stop at 1 30 p. M. So lets keep that in mind. Please join me in a round of applause for our panelist this morning. [applause] whether its charlie rose or david rubenstein, dont want to talk about that. Let me start, kevin, with a very broad question. On the recent tax reform bill. What in your view are the three most important changes that that bill accomplished . Mr. Hassett thanks so much and let me begin by thanking john for his leadership for all these years. I think it mightve been that i wrote a paper for the very first meeting, but if it wasnt the first, it was the second. Mr. Samuels we take credit for your career. Mr. Hassett four co
What does the release of this memo mean for the overall House Intelligence Committee investigation into russian interference . Mr. Heath it is hard to know. It is hard to assess whether this is a legal or political document or something else, and it is hard to assess the claims that it makes. It is saying this is surveillance that was legally questionable, but it does not really say what the Legal Standard was or what law might have been broken, and it is not clear as a reader where that comes from. You tweeted about that, saying the curious thing about the memo is it does not accuse the fbi or justice with any particular law. There are Legal Standards for warrant applications, but it does not reference them. Why is that important or do you think this memo is just meant to make a statement . Mr. Heath i do not know what the intention is. I am wary of anybody, including the authors of this memo, who are trying to make assessments about peoples motives. It is interesting to me that there
Good morning, we meet to receive testimony on the situation in afghanistan, i am pleased to welcome general john ,icholson back to the committee we thank you for your many years of distinguished service and leadership of u. S. And allied forces in afghanistan at a critical time. We would ask you to relate to the brave men and women fighting under your command how appreciative and how proud we are of their service. At war ins been afghanistan for more than a decade and a half. It is always worth remembering that American Forces went to afghanistan because that was where, under the century of the under the taliban regime, now counted planned and trained for the september 11 attacks that killed 3000 innocent civilians on american soil. Our mission was to ensure that afghanistan would never again be a safe haven for al qaeda or other terrorist groups to attack america or our allies and partners, that mission has been successful for 15 years but it is not over. American forces are carrying