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A standard of imminent threat. They had to leave pretty quickly, so about 10 to 15 attending senator scott to ask questions paid many others did not yet to ask questions. But based on the presentation was made, it does not meet to be what i consider an imminent threat. Reporter [inaudible] [indiscernible voices] senator menendez i went into this briefing today with some critical questions that i wanted to hear the answers to, the eminence the eminence he of the threat, the nature of the threat, the intelligence that would lead us to understand that delimiting that eliminating soleimani alone would eliminate the threat, and i walked away unsatisfied. It draws real concerns for me that we do not have the type of information that is critical for members of the United States senate. Dont feel bad, that is what they did to us as well. They closed the Briefing Rather quickly. We have more questions than we have answers, at the end of the day. [indiscernible voices] just a quick history lesso
A lot of them, targeted at one donald trump. Reaction from Fox News Contributor Rachel Campos duffy. Nassau county democratic chairman, and Washington Examiner susan ferrechio. What do you make of these protests, under democratic and republican administrations alike, they devolved into political protest, whatever the political dejury. For dem these protests are good thing. They excited their base. We see he how an excited base can change Election Results in recent special elections where democrats had much better turnout, that what matters comes to elections. The turnout. Helps democrat with their own momentum issue. They were stumbling around after losing to trump. The base being excited like this, given them more of a footing. Emboldened them on capitol hill from spending fights to Health Care Bill. Overall, it has been a winwin for the democrats. I think for republicans they havent quite figured out a way to answer back to this in a powerful way, in articulate way. They say nothing.
Of the democracy project at the bipartisan policy center. This is a second thing of our day on the release of a report selecting a Vice President come advice for president ial candidates. A report of the bbcs working group. I have announced the members of the working group in the beginning and introduces them. We had some on the first panel. We have more here today with maria cino and Manny Rouvelas and Benjamin Ginsberg but we are joined by one of the countrys leading expert on the vice presidency. Professor of law at st. Louis university and the author of several books and many articles but also the author of the book that is just come out come the most recent off the press, the white house life presidency, the path to significance, mondale to biden. I recommend this book. It is worse or outside. The are many, many virtue purchf this book about the vice presidency itself, a history of the Selection Process. It might be the only book about the vice presidency that does not mention joh
The federal bureau of investigation provided the same checkin i was one partys vetting process. Some campaigns wouldnt be comp triple being given a choice that was offered to them so you have a process to do a completely new and you dont know whether the course of the process issues will develop. I can think of an example a number of years ago where a medical issue arose. It required an adjustment in the process and so this is a responsibility and it cannot be rushed. We basically look at the possibility that the parties might find one or the other and that could happen for at least one the parties this year that the nomination procedure the nomination would be in doubt all the way to the convention and a they hurried lastminute process for selection of the nominee is a disaster given the recommendations we have made for components of the wellstructured process. Charlie do you want to weigh in on this too, the core process . The other thing out there of course this year might be an unu