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Biden. A member of my staff asked ambassador sondland what President Trump thought about ukraine. Mr. Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of biden, which giuliani was pressing for. Reporter the information comes from an overheard call from u. S. Ambassador to the eu and the president after trumps call with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. Democrats believe the president used his office to extort ukraine, including withholding 300 million in aid. It was not just the white house meeting that was dependent on the investigations. He said it was now everything. It included the security assistance. You didnt listen to the call . You never talked with chief of staff mulvaney . I never did. Reporter the republicans pressed the witnesses on what they call second or third hand information. They say the president did nothing wrong, becaus ....
Policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not for janet yellen or anybody else at the fed. And cliff linsen is our colleague here. I have asked each to say pretend we had a president of the United States who has a short attention span. And pretend that he ran for office saying i want to spend a lot more money on infrastructure. Pretend for a moment that this tax credit thing was something thought up and will never resurface again, what would you tell him about how to wisely spend the money . I asked each to give us the seven or eight minute spiel that they would give in the oval office and then we will have interaction. It is putting a lot of pressure on ti ....
Cspan3, a conversation from Brookings Institution on potential increased Infrastructure Spending. During a president ial campaign, donald trump said he wanted to spend more on roads, bridges and airports here in the u. S. Were a little behind schedule so im going to talk fast. Im really pleased that what we wanted to do was bring together people who have done work in the area of infrastructure to talk about where there is evidence, where there is not evidence, where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute f ....