election fraud conspiracies have percolated for him. and he s someone who can help tell that narrative. it seems he was actually a cooperative witness on thursday. it wasn t a total surprise that he would show up. but the fact that he did testify for what seems like it was an hours-long interview, the fact that he appeared to be a relatively forthcoming witness, that lawmakers afterward called valuable, this is an important thing toward the committee and it could be a step toward unlocking the testimony of ivanka trump. you ve got the department s investigation in which we have a better picture in the way it s been expanding. and the attorney general has been under pressure to do something about it. he spoke yesterday. michael, i want you to listen to this, and then i want to talk about it. the only pressure i feel and the only pressure our line
12 years later looks a whole lot different. you and i covering the trump campaign, the frequent refrain was repeal and replace obamacare in 2016. of course most republicans now not echoing that anymore. a few maybe still. largely it has been viewed as the law of the land. hearing a story about the affordable care act but also hearing a story about build back better and the stalled legislative push out of this current white house. obama said a few things that struck me. he said we didn t get everything we wanted, but it wasn t a reason not to do it. he did mention the political courage that it took. it felt to me like as much as obama was talking about the work that was done on the aca, he was also talking to lawmakers who are currently right now still grappling with if what could end up in a revised build back better package is enough for them and what might get over the legislative finish line there. it struck me when he said we re
you look at the people around him, he had his oligarchs, he had his intel people that he has jailed. he realizes his military people have been stealing billions of dollars, they re a third-rate military. oligarchs aren t going to be pleased. i will say this. again, people it is kind of like talking about dick cheney, it is a different dick cheney than i knew before the heart attack. no, it wasn t! he had 9/11 after the heart attack, and dick cheney said i m not going to let this happen again. it wasn t a heart attack that changed dick cheney. it was 9/11 that changed dick cheney. here vladimir putin wasn t if you look at his decisionmaking process, to him in a cold blooded way he s very rational. you get to go into georgia. you don t really pay consequences. you get to go into crimea. you don t pay consequences. you go in ukraine, you shoot down a commercial airliner, no
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