the [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. welcome to the national press club, the place where news happens. maybe andrea snyder, part of bloomberg s breaking news desk and vice president of the club. before we get started, would like to remind everyone to please silence earphones. for viewing and listening ideas, please feel free to also follow the program on twitter using the hashtag add-in pc life. it seemed to introduce her head table guests. i would like to ask you to please hold your applause until all the guests are introduced and i would like each of you to please him briefly as was announced. from your right we have sarah riordan, reporter for a magazine. fatah chief strategist in npc have letters member, currently mcwilliams for the senior advisor to the fda commissioner, marine, washington correspondent with use site today, jennifer rodriguez, commissioner for affairs of the u.s. pa. the medicine and health editor, kathleen quinn, senior adviser to the fda com
the breadth of that claim of executive privilege is breathtaking, and insupportable, and indeed at times it was laughable. mr. bannon not only refused to answer questions about meetings he had attended and conversations he had had during that time after the campaign, but it went so far as to refuse to answer questions about conversations he had after he left the administration, and with people who played no role in the administration, had never been in the administration. there is no plausible claim of privilege that could apply to those circumstances. what s more, the only questions he would answer were questions that were literally scripted for him by the white house. a set of 25 questions that have been written out for him, to which the answer to each must be no. whenever we saw to we sought to probe anything beyond the four corners of the specific wording of the question, he refused to answer. that is not how executive privilege works. to give you an idea of the self-se
year. dr. shulkin testified before the house and veterans affairs committee. a congressman, who called for the secretary to resign, spoke with reporters after the hearing. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the committee will come to order. thank you all for being here to discuss the president s fiscal year 2019 budget submission for the department of veterans affairs. holds 19.8 6equest million billion. that is a huge number. it is even more striking when you compare the growth in the be a budget to the overall federal spending and the economy. it illustrates his point. since 2006, the v.a. budget is up 175%. overall federal spending increased by 54% and gdp grew only 40%. given the aggressive expansion of the a resources, i appreciate the secretary s testimony. the department must stay focused on the core mission
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