Mr. Eisenberg, he told me to take my concerns to him. And, theres a period of time in it wasnt that long a period of time, but it was enough time for me to enough time to talk to someone who you want i will assume it is, right . Ive been instructed not to, representative jordan. Hes what im getting. He told you not to talk to any of the people and you interpret that as not talking to your boss. But you talked to your brother, you talked to the lawyers, you talked to secretary kent, and the one guy adam schiff will let you tell us who he is. Is that right . Representative jordan, i did my job. Im not saying you didnt. All im saying is the instructions from the lawyer where that you shouldnt talk to
anybody, and you interpret that as dont talk to my boss, but im gonna go talk to someone that we cant even ask you if that individual is. That is incorrect. I just read what you said. I shouldnt talk to any of the people. The time of the gentleman has expired. Im sorry, mr. Chairman, that seq
with just democratic voters. schumer s point is if you re waiting for republicans, you re waiting until you re blue in the face, they re not going to be for any voting law changes. schumer is gearing up for a necessary defeat, meaning he s going to lose, he understands that. he sees it as a long term policy prerogative that he does this now. i will say one other issue, katy. there is a bipartisan group that s talking about a scaled-back voting package that deals with things on a much narrower scale, that if this fails, when this fails later today, they might be able to get some energy around that. i want to talk to you about what that package would look like and whether these packages address what vaughn is going to report on. vaughn, tell us what you re seeing in michigan in terms of these new voting laws to restrict access. so at the same time now you re seeing that action at the state level by gop-backed efforts here. right now the election board of canvassers here in michigan a
search of taxicabs, were unscathed on that point. they both said that they were, in fact, nonpartisan. and that they were there to serve the country. there was no evidence introduced that would suggest these are people that were out to somehow diminish or, you know, smear the president of the united states. in fact, they back dolomite both said that the policy prerogative belongs to the president exclusively. but it s up to the president to make the final call. in addition to that, i think the republicans made a big effort to say you saw this at the very beginning, in terms of the minority leader s statement to go after the press in a suggestion, did other stomach either view lead to the press? both indicated they did not. these are not people leaking to the press, they are not people who are never trumpers. these are not people of dual loyalties were stream loyalties. they are not out to smear.
handled this moment in the proper way. i m curious what you think, congressman, costello. you consider yourself a fiscal conservative, leading along with paul ryan at the end of this. i wonder what you think how he leaves the republican parties and does the republican party that you are a part of the fiscal conservatism part of it exist anymore? it does. i think the speaker has served admirably. he laid out a vision in so many iterations, and tried to fulfill the vision. so why couldn t he get it done? he needs enough vote in the house for every single, very challenging, frankly very difficult policy prerogative. cutting spending is not easy. he will be the first person to tell you that.
was put out in september. couldn t he just say well, there s a lot of government waste and a lot of government programs that we don t need and start cutting out federal programs? i mean, government waste alone can t get to you those kind of numbers. there are programs that you can take the moral, you know, and policy prerogative and say this is what i would get rid of. he doesn t do this in this document. he doesn t say how he would make that happen. this is familiar territory. we ve seen these kinds of plans that don t quite work out. they re trying to tell you what they would like to do and what their aspiration is. the tax policy center saying it is impossible. everyone would get a tax cut. rich people would get the biggest tax cut, and you d have to figure out how to pay for it. i will say almost all of the candidates tax plans result in more red ink, you know, they all do. and there s not a lot of details in some of these plans. you know, you ve got to wait till you get furth