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What s going on, hard to get him to input information from experts and other people who in traditional administrations advise the president to move towards smart decisions and away from bad ones. this president does not have a lot of advisers. a lot of his advisers are people that he calls outside friends, people that he talks to during executive time, and people that he listens to on the television. phil drucker has joined our merry gang here, white house chief from the washington post. he covers a lot of these days, alexi, you and your colleagues have reported on. phil, let me read you one of these schedules. i think i talked to you on this day, january 18th n thick of the government shutdown. the president had two 30-minute meetings and seven hours of executive time. on november 7th, the day after the midterms, which i believe is when the schedules start, this is when he was figuring out how to fire jeff sessions. i guess he needed time to think about it. he only tweeted about i ....
He had one 30-minute meeting and seven hours of executive time. and as we noted already, if things were going beautifully, you could argue this is a brand-new way to run the united states government. but your incredible reporting from the weekend with your colleagues, this is a white house in crisis. this is a white house at the low point for historically unpopular presidency. yeah, just first, nicolle, a couple of things from the executive time and some of the others on the panel have touched on this but i think it s important to underscore that trump makes a ton of phone calls. yes, he s calling friends and all sorts of random people like lou dobbs or sean hannity or people like that but he s also calling a lot of republican senators during the day, he talks to business ceos, he conducts some sort of business. it s not formal meetings with intelligence chiefs or various cabinet secretaries but there is some bit of work that goes on in addition to the tv watching and newspaper rea ....
Keep it is because i want to be looking a little bit at iran because iran is a real problem. whoa, that s news. you re keeping troops in iraq because you want to be able to strike in iran? no, because i want to be able to watch iran. all i want is to be able to watch. the beginning, i m sure a lot of people agree with the assessment of iraq. but to say in an interview you want to keep troops, soldiers deployed in iraq to spy on iran, i called the former national security official and said what do i do with that? he said i ignore him. i said that s news. if you tell me you would have ignored that, where are we? he s the commander in chief. he said something on television what troops should do in iraq vis-a-vis iran. and at the same time in baghdad there s growing frustration among senior officials in the iraqi government with u.s. presence there. we re seeing high-level people say they don t feel comfortable with the u.s. using it as essentially a potential launchpad for espiona ....
Ugliest chapters of japanese interment camps. why doesn t anything happen? because the children are not white. but they re babies. but in this country black lives matter is a hash tag. that black lives matter just as much as other lives. not that white lives don t matter, right? if all lives matters we would all be storming the capitol because these children matter as much as every other child, as a person of color and someone that thinks about these issues a lot, i think it is uncomfortable for us to all think about we re not all protesting and storming the capital when you see a 17 month old child being reunited with her mother after a month. the baby feeling like how could you leave me, mom. those are the types of images that 40 years if now we re going ....
United states. it takes a lot for deutsche bank not to do business for somebody. this is a bank that s been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for not doing more to stop russians from laundering massive sums of money through its bank. another deutsche bank thread we often overlook is the fact this bank sold financial products to the mercer family. these were multi billionaire conservative mega donor family that played a key role in getting trump elected. a senate committee affirmed or assessed the mercers used this money to dodge paying more than $6 billion in taxes. that s larger than the gdp of some countries. they used these products in part to do that. now according to the bloomberg report, the mercers have been in negotiations with the irs about how to potentially settle that tax debt. those negotiations are done entirely in secret. obviously, tax issues are supposed to can be confidential but this is something where trump s political appointees in the irs have access to very ....