Was central in his federal role as trump gate keeper inside the white house. sara murray is live for us with more on that. what was the broad takeaway from the argument, as we said, that meadows and his lawyer want theed the judge to hear. it s a gamable to put a criminal defendant under oath, but that s what they did with med does because they wanted to drive home this notion that everything he was doing, even if it seemed political, was part of his work as white house chief of staff and should be moved to federal court. so calls involving rudy giuliani, who was then trump s personal attorney, that was part of his official duties. the call to brad raffensperger, where trump asked him to find the vote, that was part of his official duties. voter fraud suspicion were a road block to the peaceful transfer of power and he was lie
Korea. they stop their missile test in exchange for food, fuel, some kind of diplomatic initiative longer range. but also let s take care of south korea. south korea doesn t want a military strike, a preemptive strike. but they do want theed th thad missile, the ballistic missile. this is a chance for the vice president to reassure our allies, japan and south korea, that we re behind them. the president, and i m talking about president trump, has given delivered very tough talk, so are the members of his administration saying that the nuclear sorry, the military option is not off the table here. not the sort of talk we ve grown a s accustomed to. so is this tougher stance in the minds of the north korea? will it be effective or could it actually, i don t know, prompt them to do something rash? well, with the north koreans, you don t know what kim jong-un is going to do.
This is going to add to the growing chorus about the president s kir coupcircumventi. i was going to let our viewers know the white house says it s deeply disappoint want theed in the decision although they were going to honor the decision. i think it s worth noting that the president s viewpoint, saying he used his constitutional authority, exercised his executive power to put these three people on the national labor relations board because republicans were holding up the nomination and stopping the work of the government. that was the white house argument during all of this. interesting to note this really could lead to more gridlock because it could hold up nominations going through. i want to play for you what the iowa senator chuck grassley