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We know that the former ambassador arrived about a half hour ago. our colleagues in that hallway staking out the room have told us that congressman mark meadows and jim jordan have entered the room to watch the proteceedings even though you have staff deshs. wait a minute. i thought it was a staff inquiry with volcker. the staffers are the ones taking the deposition but lawmakers are allowed to walk into this proceeding and watch. we saw that yesterday with jamie ras kin when the state department i.g. met on the senate side and he was there and briefed reporters after the fact. we expect to hear from jim jordan after the deposition happens and we ll have to see what if anything mr. jordan has to add to the record here. here s what i can tell you we expect that kurt volker is telling the investigators and this is based on people familiar with his thinking and people familiar with his role when he served as the special envoy to ....
was this a one-off or are you concerned more could be happening? well, i hope not. ithink it was most likely he said that it was a staff inquiry and some kind of a misunderstanding, and i ll take him at his word. but it was a really odd development. and i think what really got people concerned, the reporters there, including cnn reporters, what got them concerned was there have of course been push back at reporters at white house briefings and the president calling reporters names. i am the daughter of a reporter, a long-time reporter, my dad. he s now 89. but for years he wrote for the a.p. and then he wrote for the local minneapolis paper about anything he wanted as a columnist and before that as a general reporter and then for a while in sports. and so i believe that reporters have a job to do and we are not always pleased about what they do, but you have to get to the bottom of things. we need to have shared facts and the only way we do that is with ....