we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. the panel has not yet revealed who that potential witness is or what they may testify to but it does signal the panel is acutely aware of what donald trump and his allies might do to try to stifle their investigation, which has shown the lengths to that donald trump went to to stay in power. yesterday we learned of a late-meeting at the white house, four days after states certified their election results, which should have been the end of the line according to attorney general bill barr s testimony. inside the oval office was a group of outside advisers. liz cheney called them the, quote, crazies, including rudy giuliani, michael flynn and sydney powell and patrick burn. they were there to pitch donald trump on executive order to seize voting machines and appoint sydney special counsel. the group was alone for ten to 15 minutes before white house officials like pat cipollone intervenes. what followed wha
so this was not unheard of in any i mean, it s horrible and potentially illegal theoretically, but it is actually it seems in this investigation to be somewhat commonplace by the former president s allies. so, barbara, our friend chuck rosenberg sent a note out pumping brakes on calling it witness tampering. he said there s more that needs to be known to definitively call it that. from a legal standpoint, what would your assessment be? well, i agree with that. you d have to show not only that trump reached out to somebody but that he had the intent to interfere with their testimony for a wrongful purpose. and the mere fact that someone placed a call alone probably isn t much. but i do think there are facts that matter here and so further investigation is the appropriate thing to do. is this a person who ever received calls from donald trump in any other context? he s never called me before but suddenly on the eve of my
have more products in the warehouse. that could spiral the wrong direction in the other direction. maybe that ll help with inflation. there are signs of it in certain places but still unclear of where things land. . > the federal reserve is expected to raise interest rates. when do you expect to do that? everybody is expecting it and it is out there as an expectation. how fast do they do it and as you know they raise interest rates, loans become that much more expensive for everybody. that s their way of pumping brakes. we want to actually decrease demand which is an unusual thing for the federal reserve and politically for anybody to do. we are actually making it harder for people to borrow money to buy things. to our point, andrew, people are out there, they re buying stuff and traveling and doing
mark: welcome back. congressman michael waltz. is ukraine allowed to win? a great question. particularly within this white house. what happens if zelenskyy s counter offensive, shea they should be launching in the coming days, what happens if he starts driving russian soldiers back. a lot of assets that russia is using to pound ukraine are in russian territory or crimea. the white house start pumping brakes on zelenskyy? on a truly military victory it could be the down fall of putin. zelenskyy is getting support of the world, it is after
mark: welcome back. congressman michael waltz. is ukraine allowed to win? a great question. particularly within this white house. what happens if zelenskyy s counter offensive, shea they should be launching in the coming days, what happens if he starts driving russian soldiers back. a lot of assets that russia is using to pound ukraine are in russian territory or crimea. the white house start pumping brakes on zelenskyy? on a truly military victory it could be the down fall of putin. zelenskyy is getting support of the world, it is after