what do you think of how the media are doing? doesn t focus on one or two individuals, excluding the others? are there ways to improve coverage? here is a chance to let your thoughts be known on media coverage campaign 2016. hear us out you can call us. (202) 748-8000 for republicans. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats and (202) 748-8002 for independents. it imposed on her facebook page at facebook.com/cspan. you can e-mail us, too at journal@c-span.org. highlighting those that will not dissipate in the debate facing polls, with donald trump leading those polls with 22% of those polled followed by jeb bush and wisconsin governor scott walker. for those who did not make the cut and who will appear earlier in the afternoon, the former governor of texas rick perry also former senator rick santorum governor bobby jindal, and others. the first debate is sanctioned by the rnc. when it comes to the process that is used, it was done on polls. usa today c
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i like to say that we are in a highly constrained environment here in washington, d.c. i think we can all agree to that. is there more that you can do? if there were more funding, is there more that you could do or are you at a point where you recognize the reality that funding is in short supply and the chances of maybe getting more is not so great at this point? what is your sense of that? one thing is to do more with less. for instance, in the area of designing educational curriculums, we have our own in-house studio. we create the content that we use. we don t have to use third-party vendors. i can be expensive. we leverage our partnerships with various companies. they service the distribution platforms. where we need to be further engaged is getting in front of the schools on a nationwide basis, not on a community by community or even state-by-state, but on a nationwide approach because we have the age-appropriate messaging. it is not a one-size-fits-all. and we can tr
house democrats on the judiciary committee said two things. they don t believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. if he did, they point out the political ramifications. that it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. these are two key consideration the white house will have to pay attention to as they look forward. as you noted, we don t have an answer. the day before comey appears, the deputy attorney general will also testify. reporter: that s right. separate hearing, separate focus. the big question is, what can members of get out of both deputy attorney general rod rosenstein but everybody else on the panel? the acting fbi director, the cia director and the director of the nsa. all of these individuals have played some role one way or another in this russia investigation. the reality is, what we have seen over the last couple weeks is all questions will be deferred to the special counsel, bob mueller.
the president himself has talked about the conversations publicly on twitter and in a letter that he and james comey had. basically, as it stands, there s a lot of question whether he could or not. the white house is reviewing this issue. house democrats on the judiciary committee just released a letter saying two things primarily. first and foremost they don t believe on the merits should the president try and invoke executive privilege it would work. if he did, they point out the political ramifications. that it would look like he was trying to obstruct the testimony. these are two key consideration the white house will have to pay attention to as they look forward. as you noted, we don t have an answer yet. the day before comey appears, the deputy attorney general will also testify. reporter: that s right. separate hearing, separate focus. the big question is, what can members get out of both deputy attorney general rod rosenstein but everybody else on the panel? the a