tonight with the context. from edinburgh, alex massie scotland editor of the spectator. bill browder, the ceo of hermitage capital management and long time critic of vladimir putin. and joel rubin, who served in the obama administration as assistant to the secretary of state. welcome to the programme. whenjoe biden spoke to vladimir zelensky on this day last year, there wasn t much confidence in washington he would be president for much longer, nor indeed that kyiv could be defended. yet here we are, a year on and not only is zelensky still there, but the us president was today standing alongside him, in kyiv. plans that involved extraordinary subterfuge and secrecy. on sunday night, as is usual, the white house issued the president s public schedule for monday, on which we were told he was leaving for warsaw at 7pm tonight. in fact, he was already in poland. air force one took off at 4:15 sunday morning, the press pool was left behind. and by late evening, the president was
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the whole name of the game is to have these offthe record conversations so you can try to figure out and piece together what s happening inside the white house. at bedminster, it depends where the press stays, they stay at different hotels. you try to get together and have these conversations. what s unique here is not these dinners happen, they re fairly routine across all administrations. what s unique here is she shared something of personal detail according to nbc news, the new york times is saying a family matter. we still, nicolle, and this is truthful, we actually don t know what that was. given as you re alluding to this is a friday in late august and you probably have a lot of bored reporters around, i suspect we may find out just what that is. we re also going to talk to the president in about an hour if he talks before he leaves for camp david on the south lawn. maybe that s my fist question, why did she abruptly resign. just to sort of pull back the curtain even more, t
position given he s clearly on television voicing his views on the mueller investigation and how we would handle it if he were in the position? that s something the ethics people are looking at right now. remember, jeff sessions recused himself from overseeing the russia investigation because he campaigned for the president. now, that s explicitly one of the reasons why in the justice department regulations a person has to recuse. if you campaign for someone who is under investigation. whether there more broad lisa conflict of interest, that s another thing. the ethics commission is looking at whether public statements while you re not in office there he is up there with sam clovis. well, that s a separate question. i m not sure that presents a conflict. as to what your fist question
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