Choice for secretary of state. Iwobi question thoroughly if hes the nominee and all the allegations and talks about his closeness with Vladimir Putin will come forward. Reporter as the ceo of exxon mobil he worked closely with Vladimir Putin. They could put the confirmation in jeopardy of trump selects him. China criticized president elect Donald Trumps comments critical of the one china policy. That policy acknowledges china as sovereign over taiwan. Chinas Foreign Ministry Department Says without one china there is no relationship between the two countries. Shares of Lockheed Martin fell today after president elect donald trump tweeted that making f35 fighter planes is too costly and that he will cut billions of dollars from military purchases. The 379 billion, the f35 Program Makes up 20 of Lockheed Martins total revenue. They say its open to answering questions from president elect donald trump. Face marched from the Justice Department to the white house and called on president oba
And the white house asked congress to act to raise the debt ceiling. President obama is nominating Channing Phillips to be the new u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia. Legal observers say that phillips will be asking prosecutors if they have a case against him and bring it. If not wrap it up which is now in its 5th year. D c is the nationals capital. Channing phillips is counsel to loretta lynx and a former prosecute. Phillips will start after the probe of the vincent campaign in mayor. If you participated with jeb thomas, i urge you to come forward now. Other staff have taken plea agreements. Vincent gray helped to illegally spend 600,000 of thomas money to help get gray elected as mayor. Gray has rejected any wrongdoing. What am i going to plead to . It has been five years that the federal prosecutor and then his replacement acting u. S. Attorney Vincent Cohen have not brought a case against gray. Was defeated by marion bowser. Channing phillips is dedicating a new Housing Pr
Friends with Valerie Jarrett and who is a behindthescenes adviser to her husband in a way that is quite different because in many respects, michelle behaves toward her husband as though she knows better. He said in public that shes the boss. He often sounds like a henpecked guy i must say. I know thats very you know radical to say that but i think theres a lot of truth to that. These women, both michelle and valerie, have enormous influence over his policy decisions. Another concrete example bill daly was the chief of staff of the obama white house, he said after he resigned that he and obama would come to an agreement and then Valerie Jarrett would go upstairs to the residents that night, spend the evening up there talking to barack and michelle and the next morning the president would come down and contravene and throw out the agreement that he and daley had an daley resigned because he said he couldnt function without kind of white house. Host we talk about a variety of topics and t
From the state department but from Valerie Jarrett in the white house who is essentially a political adviser not a policy person. I think that says volumes about how this administration is run. Host mr. Klein the cover of your book features but cut coupled bill and Hillary Clinton and michelle and barack obama. Talk about how they Work Together as a couple but also in the political sense. Guest how they Work Together . That would take us a long time but basically i would say that as quickly as i can say this, that the clintons have a marriage that is somewhat similar to the marriage of Franklin Roosevelt and eleanor roosevelt. Its essentially a working relationship. They have gone their separate ways in many ways. They dont live together often. But they are colleagues and collaborators on policy as eleanor and franklin were. On the other side, excuse me. The obama side, we have a first lady in Michelle Obama who is best friends with Valerie Jarrett and who is a behindthescenes adviser
Until noon of january 20, 2017. And jay john szob . Jeh johnson . Our book is on the Justice Department. Yeah. I cant really answer questions about him. [inaudible] i dont believe so. So those folks, i could tell you from experience with them and people we talked to, they dont make the transition to be government lawyers. When you leave private practice and you go to work for the Justice Department you have to transition into being a government lawyers whose job is to represent it public as a whole. I can tell you the people that come from those organizations, they just now think they are working for those organizations but they have the governments power and resources to do what they want. But Christian Adams and i, a couple years ago, we did a foyer request for the resumes of all the career people that have been hired in the Civil Rights Department since the start of the department and hundred percent of the people hired were clearly hired on the bases of their politics and their ide