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Camps meets refugees who were kidnapped in libya this is they were tortured by people smugglers who promise to take them to your. Just to have your company. The u. S. House Intelligence Committee has released of adapted version of a whistleblower complaint that prompted an impeachment inquiry against President Trump acting director of National Intelligence mcquire is due to testify to congress about that report today it has to do with a phone call between trump and ukraines president the issue at stake is did the u. S. President abuse his power by urging ukraine to open a corruption investigation into trumps political rival joe biden and his son. Not for the 1st time on a difficult day in new york donald trump was forced to defend his conversation with ukraines below to me as a lenski using a familiar line which arent continues but theyre getting hit hard on this which arent because when they look at the information its a joke. Impeachment that i didnt do it to take a look at that call
When and in our politics a lot of these legal questions that may be best directed at somebody else but i feel like you have a perspective when does a well see office of legislative Legal Counsel Legal Counsel scuse me guidance override the laws passed by congress. The office of Legal Counsel does not override laws passed by congress what it does is it passes legal opinion for those of us who are in the executive branch and the office of Legal Counsel legal opinion is binding to everyone within the executive branch. Good copy and i have 2 final questions im asking together to give you the time to answer them both. What is your assessment of how intelligence operations in general are going to be impacted by this latest episode and when i say episode im referring to the media circus the political circus the technical issues that are related to this whistle blower revelation you alluded to it in some of your previous questions but i would i would like your your assessment of how this can i