group, american oversight is now publishing nearly 100 pages of state department documents obtained from a public records request. they may it shows a clear paper trail between rudy giuliani, president trump and mike pompeo. here s a glance at some of it showing a couple of calls between the secretary and rudy giuliani. the president s personal attorney back in march. that s about a month before the former ukrainian ambassador marie yovanovitch was called back to the u.s. and removed from her post. no response from the state department just yet, but we are here with founder and executive director of american oversight. before starting that, he was a senior counsel at the state department in the obama administration. great to have you with us, austin. we just went through a couple of weeks of public impeachment hearings and didn t see any of this. how did your group get these records after all of that? i wish it wasn t so simple. we filed an open records request and we filed a lawsuit
terrorism tends to dominate, but it may be the issue you will be dealing with the most in your first term and trump has sort of alluded to that conversation and said he was surprised and, of course, here we are now. you know, he s changed quite a bit, donald trump, on this issue. remember, during the campaign he had this sort of very simplistic view that the chinese could unlock this problem and solve it for the united states very simply. he met with the chinese president recently and he came away from that meeting saying being a little bit surprised and saying that the chinese president explined to him that it wasn t so simple, that they don t have as much influence over the north koreans as donald trump had believed, and that, you know, unlocking that problem would take diplomacy. so i think one thing that s come out of that conversation is perhaps the administration is a little bit more intertwined with the chinese view on this and maybe a little more interested
it was this land is your land, this land is our land . reporter: there s the irony. it is. my mom would never let us complain. she would say your job is not to show them how you re different. your job is to show them how you re similar. reporter: she went to get her accounting degree at clemson, marry her husband michael a captain in the south carolina national guard and raise two children. her daughter reena now a freshman in college and her son nalen who is 15. along the way she credits two women with her interest in politics. your role model you frequently say is margaret thatcher. yes. if you want something said, ask a man. if you want something done, ask a woman. love that. reporter: but the woman who inspired you to go into politics to run was a democrat. yes. named? hillary clinton. reporter: one day she went to hear her speak. and she said for every reason people tell you not to do it, that s for every reason that you should.
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we need to have money in the bank and stuff like that. here s a little snippet. his answer ran 17 minutes. my question is, though, in the economy times that we have now, is it a wise decision to add more taxes to us with the health care because we are overtaxed as it is. well, let s talk about that. and the final point is that the cost of health care, setting aside anything we did in reform, i mean if we just allowed the current trajectory to go on is out of control. number one. we ll have the basic principles that everybody gets covered. point number 2 is we ve got the strongest insurance reforms in history. boy, that was a long answer. i m sorry. but i hope everybody but i hope i answered your question. 17 minute answer. yeah. to a simple question. the question was about taxes. and he covered everything but taxes.