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you d actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. but it was interesting. in that senate primary, that republican senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. he called himself a former pentagon expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. he said, quote, i think a lot of people, i m not sure they understand the history of russia. you go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. it actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. this whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. that s russia s business, not anybody else s. and this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. he went on in some detail, carter page also turns up in the indict ....
why is that? is he couldn t ihe couldn ting. he seems to be the person that makes donald trump the most nervous. all of those stay strong, he drnt wadidn t want to fire him. but i think that is looming out there. so you have this committee that is chaired by jeff sessions where the gentleman who was in charge of it recruits in papadopoulous and he is now actually also talking to at least the senate committees and probably to mueller s team as well, you have this team that now seems to be kind of in low customer of the contacts with russia in addition to trump jr., to kushner and others.locust of russia in addition to trump jr., to kushner and others. but carter page overnight is now saying that shortly after his trip to russia to meet with russian officials in july of 2016, which we now learn he did meet with russian high official, not just university officials or whatever he was trying to say before, but shortly after the trip, he sentd an e-mail to one aide describing insi ....
chance to be briefed by the u.s. pacific command and made his way over to the pearl harbor memorial with the first lady. it will be interesting to see what that conversation was like after they had a chance to sort of absorb all that. now, at the top of the agenda, of course, is lots that the president is going to try to get done here as he makes his way through asia. a number of important stops along the way and north korea and the threats they re posing, and south korea. the president will be in search of a united front before going to china where he ll try to get president xi to get together on pyongyang. ivanka trump batting leadoff, giving a speech in tokyo on friday before having dinner with the prime minister of this country shinzo abe. that s before the president s visit and the stops won t overlap, but white house officials acknowledge that hers is a value added element to the trip especially as she keeps the focus on women in business. now, elizabeth. you made an imp ....
why rob portman is hopeful. mick mulvaney is warning. and steny hoyer is fighting mad. they re all here and only here. we begin with blake burman with the latest. blake? it s clear here in the halls of the capitol as house republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. there s a host of issues to work through. earlier today, the club for growth, an influential republican group put out a note saying they have issues with four different things on the individual side of this house republican plan. here they are. top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low million dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45%. they take issue with a portion of pass-through profits would be taxed 25%. growth. you had big deficits. it wasn t tax cuts that did it. cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil: but you left out ronald reagan. i know. deficits didn t grow with him. the first two years ....
It a range of 50 nautical miles, all of which promises to make waterborne transport a whole lot cleaner and a whole lot greener. normal boats consume an awful lot of fuel and are extremely inefficient compared to land based transport. this is because the boat is wrong to push its wake through the water and much resistance? exactly. a lot of resistance. and you can use batteries on ferries if they are done very slowly, but if you want to go a bit faster in a big longer, the whole thing collapses because you could of course put in more batteries, but at the end, you re putting in so many batteries the boat will think. the boat will sink. you have a fiscal limit that you can t get around. gustav says that one hour of charging will allow this ferry to run for three hours, meaning a good service communities during the morning rush on one charge to be ready for the afternoon peak after being recharged at lunchtime. there s another advantage to being almost entirely out ....