in regard to the pier review being conducted by the american public administration, which was requestedboard in december, as i reported last month at the board meeting, the kickoff meeting was held, and the workshops were held march 11 through march 13th. and we expect a final report to be presented to the board next month. director chang has requested we pro vie the provide team with an afta report once the draft is completed. i hope to be able to do that-within the next two weeks. moving on to operations, we continue to make progress in our leasing efforts. at this time, i would like to ask martha valez to provide you with an update on the leasing efforts, as well as the tenant improvements progress. martha? >> good morning, directors. i'm going to give you a brief update on the leasing and tenant improvement updates. martha valez, facility director. this slide is familiar to you. it depicts the activity on the ground level and various stages of discussion. and if compared to last month, you'll see movement of prospective tenants as they are rearranged for f-fit. as example, the inter

and this has been a huge distraction for the american public as well as this administration that tries to tackle these problems. >> he didn't say there was no evidence of collusion because that's not a legal term. he said he could not prove conspiracy. but the president's lawyer said he thinks its okay for republican candidates to welcome support from a foreign advers y adversary, from russia. do you feel the same way? would you welcome support from russia in your campaign? >> no, and i don't believe the trump campaign did. so, again, from my standpoint, this issue is over in terms of collusion. now, i was one of the people briefed by the obama administration when we were told about russian interference. that was back in september to20. the whole point of that briefing in a secure situation was we have this covered. we want you to go out as members of the congress and say the elections results would be legitimate. that's what they wanted us to say. but then the wrong person got elected and all of a sudden we have this whole russian collusion story. it has been a big hoax. it's been a w

i do think the american public is worn out with this administration. but, having said that, we are citizens of the united states of america. we have a responsibility to get to the truth. >>> can you stick around a little bit? speaking of truth, we'd like to get to the truth of the conference call between nancy pelosi and democrats. we are going to take a lookout. it is something affecting our lives. the weather i don't phil, i can tell you there is no proof the russians have had anything to do with our weather. certainly not this marine layer this morning. look at the view above san jose. low grade clouds. a quick overview. how widespread. san jose, you are waking up to them. they won't last long. definitely over the pay. if we look at another camera's haven't taj point, this citizen land. this is just on the edge of the central valley. the coast would be this way behind me. in fact, that is mount diablo out there in the distance. the coast is over there. the clouds are blanketing much of the inland parts of the valley. here's your low grade blanket of

i think what is so important to note especially to the american public here as the trump administrationthe mueller investigation over the past two years is that mueller's investigation and his findings and all of these details that really illuminate chaos and pedaling of a lot of falsehoods come from trump's own staffers. former trump loyalists and people who were many the room with the president during these times. these memos were written for a reason and now what you're seeing the president do is, i think, the report provides a retaliatory road map and the president seems to be going after that. after don mcgahn specifically. there's this one instance that every one keeps referring to when the president in an attempt to maintain control of the investigation as he did over the past 700 days is tried to apply pressure to don mcgahn to deny that the president wanted to remove mueller from his position as special counsel. mcgahn refused to do so. uncomfortable with that pressure and documented it as a lawyer is supposed to do. this is trump fundamentally misunderstanding the role of whit

to protect all americans, my administration declared the opioid epidemic a nationwide public health emergencybig step. since then, we have secured a record $6 billion in new funding to combat the opioid crisis, and that is the most ever, and we are going for even bigger numbers this year. [applause] pres. trump: last year, we provided $90 million to prevent youth substance abuse, and i signed the support for patients and communities act, the largest ever legislative effort to combat a single drug crisis in our nations history. it's the largest ever. following the recommendation of my surgeon general, and many the overdose reversing drug naloxone increased by over one million units. pretty amazing stuff. to expand access to treatment, recovery, and other crucial activities and services throughout our nation, we have given opioid response grants to states totaling a record $2 billion. we are now allowing states to use medicaid funds to pay for residential treatment facilities, and they are being built all over the country. in my first year in office, the number of patients receiving medication

american policy. again, i am hopeful because i am ignorant. [laughter] gerry: the extremism of the trump administration has opened more space for debate within the american public. raef: i see that. gerry: more divergent abuse today about where the u.s. should be on u.s.-palestinian issues than five or 10 years ago. raef: if we want to see good signs, israel wants a consensus between democrats and republicans. administration, it is becoming that it is not that way anymore. israel is more associated with republicans and democrats slowly are becoming more ready to voice their opposition to israel he policy. -- israeli policy. it is not what he thinks that is important but it is important he thinks he can say that and get away with it within the american public. or at least with the democrats in this country. thoughtfulhave been 10 years ago. happening.mething is gerry: we will see. let me ask people in the audience if they want to ask a question. if you would state your name and affiliation when we call on you. i am a palestinian journalist. you said we are moving forward as a geopolitical unit but not there yet. why are we not there you? -- there yet? have --sti

needs release as much of that report as fast as he can before the american public further turns on the justice department and this administration. >> i want to ask if you agree with that assessment. and i want to ask if you think we'll ever learn what was so great that robert mueller insisted do not exonerate. those words were in there. as i understand it's a declination letter. he stopd before he issued any verdict on donald trump's criminality in the obstruction case. will we ever find out what happened from the time the football was handed incomplete to barr and barr exonerated him? >> i suspect we'll get a window into this at some point and the way you lay it out is just right. as a prosecutor your fundamental job is to make decision. do i indict this case or decline the case? and there are a number of reasons you might. weaker insufficient evidence and that's not what mueller did. instead he did what people have characterized as punting. but what i suspect is far closer to a practical recognition of the the fact that he did not have the power to indict a president because of existing doj pallacy and so he left the decision

pattern in the past and when there has been an islamic shooter, the outcry from the administration and from the american publiclaw enforcement earlier today about what we do with the rise that we are seeing in this country of white nationalist attacks like this that now can'tjust be dismissed as one bad apple, but have to be seen asa one bad apple, but have to be seen as a much more coordinated movement in the united states. and the consent from them is that unless the same tone is taken from the very top about those incidents as it would be taken against attacks by muslim attackers, you miss the opportunity to treat this as seriously as it needs to be treated. there has been this uptick in anti—semitic attacks in the united states, and it does need to be taken seriously. that is not to downplay the phone call that he made to the rabbi. and as you say, they got on well. the former us republican senator president trump, who played a leading role in dismantling weapons of mass destruction at the end of the cold war, has died in virginia. he was 87. he represented indiana in the senate until 2013, when he was def

to protect all americans, my administration declared the opioid epidemic a nationwide public health emergencyce then we have security record $6 billion in new funding to combat the opioid crisis, and that is the most ever. and we are going for even bigger numbers this year. [applause] last year we provided $90 million to prevent youth substance abuse, and i signed to support patients and communities act, the largest ever legislative effort to combat a single drug crisis in our nation's history. it's the largest ever. following the recommendation of my surgeon general and many others last year, the distribution of the open overdose-reducing drug, and the locks, increased by over 1 million units pretty amazing stuff. to expand access to treatment, recovery, and all other critters crucial activities and services. we have given response grants to states totaling a record $2 billion. we are now allowing states to use medicaid funds to pay for residential treatment facilities and they are being built all over the country. the number of patients receiving medication-assisted treatment at community h

american leaders to get blind and support venezuela. which is critical. the trump administration's levels of public approval are very low in the region now. >> sreenivasan: secretary pompeo was placing responsibility on china and russia's feet.th what doe mean? >> well, the problem is that russia sent twoplanes three weeks ago and unloaded military equipment and 1,000 russian troops, and that really is a show of force in support of maduro and against u.s. policy. and then there's china whichas lent at least $16 billion to venezuela. so what the u.s. is is to demonstrate that these are rescue partners and it's unfortunately citing monroe actrine of 1823, which goes a long way bac doesn't have a pleasant history in atlanta america, but it is very woried that this possible regime change in venezuela has taken on a scale of geopolitical dimen rsis wisia and china now, and the u.s. does not like having china and rulia medding in its own, if you will, what it considered its backyard. >> one of the leads they're trying to pull is the purchase of 5g equipment d ether these countries purchase from china or

american public." the senate was skeptical. members did not act on that skepticism. nor did congress want to challenge the administration. ess stop questioning the war once the troops were committed. acceptance of the war became a rally around the flag. the american public was largely apathetic. they were too busy in their daily lives. the war was far away in a jungle. it was better to trust the leaders. i emphasized that in terms of trusting the leaders. the key lesson of the vietnam war, he says, is to educate ourselves as citizens and to demand of our leaders that the military option should be a weapon of last resort. the middle scholar is marilyn young. the late marilyn young, professor of new york university, has written numerous books, including one entitled" the vietnam wars, 1945-1990," dr. young has said, what leaders should have learned from vietnam is that advanced technology and military force cannot solve political problems. those that aroused during and before the old colonial era when europe ruled the world. she posed the question: if the concept of credibility had entered the discussion, with the usb a sup

the administration has authorized on seven occasions transfers of this nuclear know-how to saudi arabia. in the past, when these transfers were approved, they were made public so that the american public and congress could exercise oversight on which nations in the world are being given nuclear technology. but in this instance, and possibly others in this administration, the approvals were kept secret. why are they secret now? we know that saudi arabia is intent on building a nuclear program. that's well covered. but they haven't agreed to the nonproliferation rules that would prevent the development of nuclear weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation treaty is a bedrock principle international law that the united states has sponsored for a very long time. and the principle is simple. we would not want countries get nuclear technology unless they give us guarantees that the technology is only for peaceful use, medical research, power production but not to produce nuclear weapons. we are transferring this technical know-how to the saudi arabian government secretly without yet requiring that they sign on to the important safety protections in the npt. it's only logical that congress

release as much of that report as fast as he can, before the american public even further turns on the justice department and this administration. >> joyce, i want to ask if you agree with that assessment. i also want to ask you if you think we'll ever learn what was so grave in the report on obstruction that robert mueller, while he didn't charge the president, insisted that do not exonerate, those words were in there, as i understand it it's called a declination letter. robert mueller didn't go so far as to do that. he stopped before he issued any verdict on donald trump's criminality in the obstruction case. will we ever know, will we ever find out what happened from the time the football was handed incomplete to barr, and barr exonerated him to? >> i suspect that we'll get a window into this at some point and the way you lay it out is just right, as a prosecutor your fundamental job is to make a decision. do i indict this case or decline this case? if you decline a case there are a number of reasons you might check. weak or insufficient evidence or no federal offense evident would be some of the major reasons. that's not wh

american space race. fdr, and whatk to fdr did well goes beyond social security, fdr built the tva and the grand coulee dam. eisenhower had the highway system. kennedy's thinking, what is my administrations big public -- what is my ministry in's big public works thing? modern aviation starts kicking jack kennedye renzi 1960. there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time there -- by the time he is killed in dallas there are computer classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways. people are flying more and more, hub airports are being developed across the country, so it was the jet age, the space-age. kennedy grabbed onto it and made that the cornerstone of the new frontier. 8:00 easternht at on c-span's q and a. house economic advisor larry kudlow. he sat down with her reporters to discuss china, brexit, and humanitarian aid for venezuela. he also talked about president trump's threat to close the u.s. southern border and steps the u.s. government might take to ease any economic strain. the christian science monitor hosted this event. let me guess, we are on the record?

in terms of public administration as you saw him a few slides americans and russians still don't seem to have much room to negotiate especially in crimea and they are at the same time there is no domestic pressure in either country to change the current environment and there are interesting internal differences with republicans being more willing to cooperate with russians and democrats and people who support putin and having differences on crimea and generally majority of each country's each other as a rival and that their influence and power should be maintained. so it is not even though we have endeavored to be a peaceful cooperation and move to improvement is a pretty depressing reality of where we stand. >> okay. on that cheery note. [laughter] i will open it up to questions. we have a little more than half an hour. let me start with a couple brief observations and maybe things to kick off the discussion. to start with the last point there i think one of the challenges in the us russian relationship has long been lack of for better term called ballast that lack of the colors on e

as i said earlier, the american public is excited by the administration's enthusiasm for space exploration, and i certainly look forward to helping achieve all of these very, very exciting goals. and then i think i've got a little time left. last month the chairwoman and ranking member sent a letter to the commissioners of the fcc expressing concern about its proposed radio frequency based on feedback from the scientific community, the letter highlighted the need for interagency consultation among affected scientific agencies and the consideration of unintended consequences on areas such as weather forecasting before the option could move forward. can you explain to the committee what nasa's role is during the interagency consultation process and concerns that you have about last month's auctions? >> great question. so nasa works with the ntia which is the government kind of arbiter of spectrum issues and ntia ultimately represents nasa to the rest of the government. when it comes to, you know, spectrum auctions and that kind of thing. i will tell you that the 24 gigahertz spectrum that is

federal authorities, but now as you understand and as all of the american public knows they are being rebuffed at every turn by trump administrationfficials. we could officially effectively rather avoid a constitutional showdown by new york providing those returns to the congressional house and ways committee. >> do you worry about the politicization of the tax process here even at the state level in new york? >> well, let's be clear. the state department of taxation and finance in new york has cooperated with other states, with the federal government and other governmental entities in providing the tax returns of new yorkers for decades, so this in one respect is nothing new. what is new is that we would be working with congressional investigative committees to provide those tax returns to them. >> what are you looking for, the president's actual net worth, where his money comes from, if he's paid the proper amount of taxes? what would you be interested in? >> well, i think, you know, we're all taxpayers so we all want to know that the man who holds the highest office in the land is not benefiting personally from his business ope

by the way, gives that edict to everybody in his administration, that's not about disrespecting congress. that's about disrespecting the american public that wants answers and wants accountability. >> and what has it done today to your colleagues in the house? what are you hearing? has this, i mean, i know you're on recess. it's not one of those days where you can all get together. are you getting a sense the president has changed the dynamic today? >> i think all the president did today was he made democrats more determined to get to the bottom of all of these inquiries and continue in a very steady and diligent and deliberate way to try to get the facts. and we're trying to get those facts so we can put them in front of the citizens out there who are the ultimate jury when it comes to this president. we want to equip the country with the facts that they need to go make a judgment next november. i mean, the president will need his political maker on november 3rd, 2020. he was made by this electorate and can be unmade by this electorate particularly if they have good information at their fingertips. we're even determined today based o

american people. that's, after all, the job the attorney general, to provide public confidence in the administration of justice. >> senator, we did pay for 22 months' worth of work. and on behalf of the democrats who are demanding the clean version of this report, the folks watching tonight know how leaks work in washington. and they're worried that perhaps information we don't want in the public realm might get out. >> i think that's a fair concern. but i do think one of the things that is going to end up governing this going forward is going to be mueller's loyalty to the hard work of the law enforcement professionals that did this work. we know that bob mueller is somebody who has deep and abiding respect for the rule of law. i think he took his job seriously. they didn't leak. they did their work. and i think he's going to want that work to be respected. so if barr goes too far with redactions, i think barr probably knows that mueller -- that's when mueller would be, i think, willing to push back. he doesn't want the work his people did to be dismissed behind a lot of green shading, red shading, ye

restore public trust released an open letter to american ceos last weekend encouraging them not to hire former trump administrationthe letter includes a long list of administration alums and part of it read, quote, regardless of when they leave they should not be allowed to seek refuge in their boardrooms or corner offices. the theme crosses into academia. on wednesday former minnesota republican congressman mark kennedy got news he was the only candidate to become the next president of the university of colorado. now several student groups on campus are raising red flags about kennedy pointing to his career in congress where he stood against same-sex marriage but this afternoon kennedy released a letter on the university of colorado webpage to address the controversy. he wrote, quote, like many friends and colleagues on both sides of the aisle in congress my position on marriage -- what i vote the same way today? know. my record in supporting the lgbt community reflects a deep respect for the dignity of each individual. the regions in colorado is concerned about kennedy's past position and said there's a 14 day v

american public. it's not about us. it's about the american public. from that sacred podium to give in information that's wrongful, to -- people are not going to be able to trust her or even this administrationven bigger than sarah at this point. it's now the president. it's now his minimum ons. can you trust? and the answer is no. there are big questions today. >> all right. mark. >> let me be the one to say i'm not surprised by anything that happened in this report because we have known about it all along. . all we have seen now is it's with being quote unquote reported by somebody else, in this case federal investigators proving what has been written over the past two years happens to be true. >> yes. and we can still home everyone will read this this for themselves. because as i said it's very readable. and very important. >> ratchet. >> thank you all very much. and next he spent millions of dollars of his own money to push for trump's impeachment. does mueller's report give tom steyer more urnlts outfront next. and his name was mentioned hundreds of times in the mueller report. hundreds of times. can you imagine if that were are your name? tonight the president takes aim at the man in t

something that's going to be a sticking point for this administration, they're going to repeat that line over and over again that the american public't care and that this is a democratic party that's out on a witch-hunt to get them. the question is how much will the public care about the democrats focusing so much on this issue given that we know they have a whole array of other topics they want to investigate as well. >> so kind of seems like the idea then for the white house is delay, dla delay, delay see if this goes away, chairman adam schiff put it this way, when the law is on the your side, pound the law, when the facts are on your side pound the facts. if neither the facts or law are on your side pound the table and then there is whatever this is. what is this? >> this is where we are today. this is how we got a president for the first time in decades whose tax returns we had not seen, the american public, the voters had chosen to overlook that and that is something that republicans and probably rightly so are going to be honing in on, the fact that this is a democratic party that wants to focus on something that the majorit

administration? >> one of the things that merges is a complete breakdown in the american public's trust with governmentnment and i'd like to point to the example of african americans who see this and who seen richard nixon resigning and see his presidency for good or bad as an example of the ways in which privilege and power continue to be corrupted and abus abused. that's something important to look for. >> also, liz, it's fascinating the breakdown and institution, the break town adown and trust institutions, i don't know if there say hopeful aspect to it that that came back somewhat, i guess, after nixon and obviously it's being broken down again or did it never really come back? >> the trust in government never really came back. there were a couple moments after 9/11, a lot of trust in government but no, in fact, what happens after dramatically and it also there was a time when they would respect and trust the president regard lole of the party. after nixon, people will trust government only if their party is in the white house. that's a major shift that occurred. >> immediate change is the attitude

american people. that's a big number. >> i think so. he is a political actor. everyone in an administration is aware of public opinion on the big issues that they have to decide. he said he's going to release the report, right? so that poll the democrats, like nadler, sending all these letters and putting the daily pressure on him, that has to weigh on him in terms of the decision making and redactions and how much to show. whatever he redakts, there is going to be a fight from the overwhelming majority of people up on the hill and from the media who want the whole thing out there. so he has to be aware his redactions have to be on solid, factual and legal grounds because they're going to be challenged. >> do you think democrats are asking. didn't you say something. we shouldn't see or members of congress shouldn't see some of the things in the report? >> i think members of congress should see the whole thing. i don't think the public should see classified material or certain grand jury information. >> you think democrats will be satisfied with a version that is redacted? he's indicating he has to do it. >> i

to protect all americans, my administration declared the opioid epidemic a nationwide public health emergencyew funding -- billion in new funding to combat the opioid crisis, and that's the most ever, and we're going for even bigger numbers this year. [applause] last year we provided $90 million to prevent youth substance abuse and i signed the support for patients and communities act, the largest ever legislative effort to combat a single drug crisis in our nation's history. it is the largest ever. following the recommendation of my surgeon general and many others last year, the distribution of the overdose reversing drug naloxone, increased by over one million units. pretty amazing stuff. to expand access to treatment, recovery and other crucial activities and services all throughout our nation we have given opioid response grants to states totaling a record $2 billion. we are now allowing states to use medicaid funds to pay for residential treatment facilities and they're being built all over the country. in my first year in office the number of patients receiving medication asassisted com

administration? >> one of the things that emerges from this is just a complete breakdown in the american public's trustvernment. and i'd like to point, you know, to the example of african-americans who see this and who see richard nixon resigning and see his presidency for good or for bad as an example of the ways in which privilege and power continue to be corrupted and abused, and i think that's something important to look for in the present. >> it's also -- liz, it's fascinating, the breakdown in the institutions, the breakdown in trust in institutions. i don't know if there is a hopeful aspect to it, that that came back somewhat, i guess, after nixon, and obviously it's being broken down again or did it never come back? >> the trust in government really never came back. a couple of moments after 9/11, there was a lot of trust in government, but, in fact, what happens after nixon is the trust in government drops dramatically and it also bifurcates. there was a time where americans, democrat or republican, would respect and trust the president, regardless of the party. after nixon, after vietnam and

administration the trunk administration has done is very extreme but i do think that there has been a there is a. document sort of tendency was in the greater american. public sphere to really distrust international system the international system and multilateral organizations and to really pursue and to distrust the u.n. . and to pursue a kind of. special road and it is very individualistic and exceptional last position until. we are running out of how to do want to bring in rina from d.c. here from our other guests you have heard let's say cautious optimism this is a good resolution however we're very disappointed in the u.s. as language and we hope the u.s. language changes i just want to ask you very quickly do you think this administration is capable of wheeling this back and it will change its mind or do you think this is set in stone i think as of right now because of the way the political winds are shifting in this moment there's no change there's no going back they need this when donald trump is on the dollar twenty twenty this is a political chip that they will say we got she something the evangelicals are not happy despite getting two justices o

the american public is be focused on a bigger picture of an authorized surveillance and on conclusion, they were determined to be prosecutable. there's clear precedent under the nixon administrationit's not true at all. the only clear side is that both sides have to give of it and so certainly there's no moving forward in terms of the lawsuit over the reaction other than that legislators should be during their jobs. >> you ordered a book, how america is on the shores. what is going on, you want them, you can have them. we've got all of them, as you say in full freak out mode. is it legal for him to do this? i can't imagine why not. didn't bush and obama sent a bunch of somali refugees to minnesota? if they decide where to send people? >> under that program, state department and collusion, redistributes all of these refugees to cities that don't get a vote about it. there's no say. the fact is people forget and i reported on this, breaking news story five years ago but the obama administration was shipping illegal aliens from the border to the interior of the country to air force bases. oklahoma, ventura county, california and obama ask permission. very fun to imagine all those pl

it's not as cut and dried as the trump administration and the attorney general would like the public to believe. >> that's right. it's a fundamental concept of americanat mere presence, mere knowledge of a criminal or a crime is not itself a crime and what -- the way i read the mueller report is that it describes all of this activity. this gleeful -- this happiness of the russian hacking, knowing about it, having special knowledge about it, all of those things while morally questionable might not rise to the level of a crime. but in reading between the lines it feels like mueller concluded that they went right up to the line in knowing about the hacking. being happy about it. reporting on it internally. all of those things are not quite enough for criminal liability. but just a little step further and they might have walked right over the line into conspiracy or attempt. >> but the trump administration just wants people to believe the bottom line. and the bottom line's -- the judgment of the bottom line of what the attorney general put out there in the four page memo despite everything that's been laid out in the 400 plus pages. >> that's right. even

american administrations and professionals have made choices over time. so in a sense, trump was asking the right questions, i just think he's supplying the wrong answers. because if you look at the publice state department in the intelligence community in the military, they are deeply patriotic, committed, they have enormous amounts of expertise that you need to draw on, not disdain. and when donald trump was asked last year about whether he was concerned of the number of senior vacancies in the state department, his response was, "not so much, because i'm the only one who matters". that is not a prescription for playing an effective american role in the world. so those were the right questions, any elected president would have had to address them. but i think what he's supplying are the wrong answers. we are hollowing out our ability to compete effectively on a landscape which is far more competitive and contested today than it was when ijoined the foreign service. let's talk about that new landscape, it seems to me the one challenge we haven't talked about, the one that matters more arguably than the others, is china. that's certainly true. do you think it's time to confront, co—oper

american citizens. >> reporter: rosenstein blamed critical decisions involving election interference on the obama white hse. >> the previous administration chose not to publicize the full story about russian computer hackers and social media trolls. >> reporter: president donald trump claims the mueller report cleared him olu colsion while also suggesting that the entire investigation was an attempt to remove him from heoffice. >> t tried for a coup, didn't work out so well, andne i didn' a gun for that one, did i. >> hans, there was a bizarre moment during friday's event in indiana, what happteed. >> repor as the president came on stage at the annualnra meeting, someone threw a cell phone on to the stage. it was a rare breach of security, an event where thousands of guns were on sp dilayr in the convention cente just next door. later the man was arrested. had peter b n on white house duty on that day or as we call him, captain america, that cell phone never would have left that man's hand. >> glad everyone wasfe. thank you very much. >>> the race for the democratic nomination is kicking into another gear today. president trumpro and f runner ji joe biden taki

administration, when they count these things. what do you hear biden doing there? >> i'd note, also, remember, the american public did not find donald trump honest and trust worthy when they elected him president either. i don't know if that'll be the most resonant message to win back voters, or if it'll be more on an economic appeal, which joe biden spent much of the speech yesterday doing, alisyn. i mean, this was sort of a piece, a pillar of his campaign, about his vision for how to rebuild the middle class. when he said that if a democrat is going to win back the white house, it is going to be right here, i mean, this is why i think he is getting under the president's skin. i think the president is keenly aware that joe biden may have a unique appeal in this field of 20 democrats to actually win back some of the very voters that delivered the oval office to donald trump in pennsylvania, in michigan, in wisconsin, that he may have a unique appeal to bring some of the people back into the democratic fold. >> let's let people see the numbers once again. joe biden at 39% in a field of 20 candidates, it is a big n

administration. my guess is a lot of the rank and file democrats and frankly many of the american public are not going to find particularly persuasive hilary clinton's take on where we should go from here. liz: her campaign and the dnc was found to have sent money to fusion gps via the -- that's the allegation -- via the law firm perkins. here's the question, we know the doj, inspector general michael horowitz is investigating the roots of the trump russia controversy and the probe there, the question is, do you think that steele dossier, which now even bob woodward and the new york times admits is fake, do you think that that was a distraction from the multiple clinton foundation pay to play probes? >> you know, it's a good question. i think there certainly was a lot going on behind the scenes during this era at the justice department. you know, you had all these investigations you mentioned, and then you get the steele dossier thrown in the mix. i think it is useful that the inspector general is conducting an investigation and just trying to get a lot of answers because we still have so many unanswe

administration get involved with russians? american people need to know. and there e's no -- we're adult and i think the american publica right to that information, and obviously trump doesn't want the american public to know, just like he doesn't want people to know about his taxes which involve his finances and possible connections to oligarchs, just like he doesn't want people to know his grades. the stable genius has threatened the schools if they release his grades with penalties and legal action. there's so much he's hiding mg he's not adequately morally intellectually and passionately to be president of the united states. >> in a letter to lawmakers you feel barr is the president's fixer, but his former fixer michael cohen, his attorneys say they found a hard drive with millions of doumds. they're asking congress to help delay his prison sentence schl that something that's in congress's purview? >> it seems like pruzen is getting closer and closer for michael cohen. he's going more desperate to keep him out of prison. it's an awful prospect. it's not something we generally get involved with with a man or woman w