that's not covered by citizens united if they are not a u.s. individual or a corporation. however, foreign money could take over domestic corporations, as you were suggesting before, and then money could be channeled through this citizens united loophole directly into the political system. is that something that you think we can tighten up as well? >> yes. definitely, you know, regulation has in many ways not caught up with citizens united even though it was several years ago now. a corporation's ability to spend unlimited amounts on politics either directly or through superpacs requires dealing with the problem that even a domestic corporation which can wholly owned or controlled by foreign powers. and that should be tightened up. one of the ways would be to, as proposed, set some kind of percentage, ownership percentage by foreign nationals or foreign governments and say above this even a domestically cite corporation can't spend on politics. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i yield back. >> i recognize myself for five minutes. this question is to everybody on the p

but if you really want to change for the american people max we've got to get rid of citizens united and change how we fund politics in this country. it was that i just came from boston filming the great american pilgrimage of stephen baldwin will be airing on r.t. in november and in seven hundred seventy three the colonists decided in a brazen act of hostility to stage the boston tea party as an act against the crown set the stage for the revolution they tried every avenue to make some kind of compromise with the crown and with the monarchs it failed they staged a revolution how are we not at a similar inflection point in american history where we've tried every appeasement to the fascists to the monarchs to the entrenched aristocracy how are we not at yet again that point in time when we need to say enough is enough declare independence from american fascist corporations and restart hit the reset button do whatever it takes to hit the reset button and to save democracy or live like slaves to the corporate fascist randy that's why i'm saying when we get a man up well when people sto

establishes a deficit neutral reserve fund to allow for a constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united and reform our broken campaign finance system by moving toward the public funding of elections. mr. chairman, in my view, the republican budget we're discussing today is patently absurd. it gives massive, massive tax breaks to the wealthiest people in this country. it makes horrific cuts to medicare and medicaid. it forces about 30% of middle class families to pay more in taxes. and it also allows for massive cuts to education, nutrition, and environmental protection. now, why would anybody want to like proposal a budget this? i think it has a lot to do with an article that appeared on june 26 in the guard -- in "the guardian" newspaper. let me quote the article. quote, at a weekend donor are-treat attended by at least 18 elected official the koch brothers washed that time is running out to push their agenda most notably, health care and tax reform, through congress. one texas-based donor warned republican lawmakers that his dallas piggy bank was closed until he saw legislative progre

definitely the regulation has not been with citizens united. the ability to spend unlimited amounts on politics they require a viewing with the problem that even the domestic corporation can be domestic by foreign powers and that should be tightened up. one of thes ways would be as you proposed set some kind of percentage. and say about thisay even domestically in corporations they cannot spend the politics. this question as to everybody on the panel. you can elaborate.on just don't take too long if you are going to elaborate. i will start with you. for the mccain feingold and the supreme court case lake citizens united should those cover all political advertisements. yes i think our campaign finance regime at the heart is about transfers of money designed to influence politics. whether that means buying a political ad there are different ways that they can play out in detail. >> opinion is protected. that is not just a slippery slope. what it is about with candidates and actual advocacy against the candidate then clearly that falls within thos

that's not covered by citizens united if they are not a u.s. individual or corporation. however, foreign money could take over domestic corporations, as you were suggesting before, and money could be channeled through this citizens united loophole directly into the political system. is that something that you think we can tighten up, as well? >> yes. definitely, you know, regulation has in many ways not caught up with citizens united, even though it was several years ago now. corporations' ability to spend unlimited amounts on politics either directly or through super pacs requires dealing with the problem that even a domestic corporation can be wholly owned or controlled by foreign powers. and that should be tightened up. one of the ways would be to -- as has been proposed, set some kind of percentage -- ownership percentage by foreign nationals or foreign governments and say, above this, being even a domestically cited or incorporated corporation can't spend on politics. >> mr. chairman, thank you very much. i yield back. >> i recognize myself for five minutes. this qu

oregon citizens united.i have my opinions but we are in a situation where politicians don't campaign in just fund-raising may deal a special-interest. we are doomed to fail and we have to recognize that. my final point is we have to recognize that the american ideal is at risk. we have to recognize that our position locally is eroding. numerous commentators have spoken about numerous political leaders. you guys we have to deal with the new reality. i think that's fair and i think that's wrong but i think it's fundamentally a reversal. i also think as we sit here today and i will stop in the second president nixon would have approached this very differently. looking at his record as i did in the nixon factor thinking about america and the age of trump, president nixon would have tried to find a bipartisan solution to each and every problem. he would have called congressional leadership and, democratic and republican and he would have crafted bipartisan solutions. the other thing the president would then, pres

but unfortunately as a result of the disastrous citizens united supreme court decision, the american campaign finance system has been totally corrupted, and we now have a situation where billionaire families can spend unlimited sums of money to help elect candidates who protect their interests. and not only can they spend that money, that is exactly what they are doing. mr. president, there was a very interesting article in "the boston globe" just the other day, october 14. and this is what the article says. headline -- the koch brothers and their friends want president trump's tax cut very badly. and this is what the article says. the message from the billionairy a word about the koch brothers. not everybody knows who they are. the koch brothers are the second wealthiest family in america. they are struggling to catch up to the waltons. not quite there yet. they are only worth $90 billion. struggling, but they are getting by, happy to tell you. and with that $90 billion, what they are doing, along with a few of their friends, is spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars

the reserve fund is to allow for the constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united and reformthe broken campaign finance system on moving towards the public funding. mr. chairman come in my view of the republican budget theater discussing today is heavily absurd and gives massive tax breaks to the wealthiest in this country. it makes horrific cuts and forces about 30% of middle-class families to pay more in taxes and allows for the massive cuts in education for nutrition and environmental protection. why would anybody want to push a proposal budget like this >> i think it has to do with an article that appeared on june 26 in the guardian newspaper. at the weekend retreat attended by at least 18 elected officials, they warned that most notably the tax care reform through congress. it is the legislative progress to get obamacare repealed and replaced and tax reform passed and open it back up. they said that the policy and politics is between 300 million to $400 million. a few minutes ago we talked about the estate tax and in my view the absurdity of giving tax breaks tens of bil

as a result of the disaster citizens united supreme court decision, the american campaign finance system has been corrupted and we now have a situation where really near families can spend unlimited sums of money to help elect candidates who protect their interests. not only can they spend that money, that's exactly what they're doing. there is an interesting says, the koch brothers and their friends what present trump tax cuts very badly. this is what it says. the message from the billionaire and i should say a word about the coke brothers. they are the second wealthiest family in america. they're struggling to catch up to the waltons, not quite there yet. they're only worth $90 billion. struggling, but getting by. and with that 90 billion, what they are doing along with a few of their friends spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars every campaign cycle to elect people, in this case republicans who support their agenda. that's what the article said. a message for the billionaire lead coke brothers and the republican congress that help to shape couldn't be more clear. pass

has been upheld by the supreme court and repeatedly i wouldld go to many people forget in the citizens united physicians by ann h.-one-vote the supreme court upheld the disclosure. they've done that repeatedly in terms of political campaigns and elections and that area not in all of politics but when it comes to campaigns and elections they bought into the notion sunlight is the best disinfectant and we need to arm both our citizens most importantly to be able to have this information and then we can start to have a good robust discussion but too know who the speaker is. >> host: the first call comes cs from david and clinton township michigan you are on the. go ahead. >> caller: thank you. i just have one question. i was wondering could twitter site and real donald trump be a russian trolling sites? sites?guest co. the honest answer to that is that relies on twitter to determine where and how they verify where the sites are that i think in this case they seem to be coming from the president who confirms he is doing it, so i think again, this legislation we are talking about doesn't get into

i know many people forget in the citizens' united decision by an 8-1 vote actually the supreme court upheld disclosure. they have done that repeatedly in terms of political campaigns and elections. in that area, not in all of politics but when it comes to campaigns and elections they have really bought the notion that sunlight is the best disinfect ant and we need to arm both, you know, our citizens most importantly, to be able to have this information. and then we can really start to have a good robust discussion. but know who the speaker is. >> first call for you comes this orange from david in clinton township, michigan. democrats line. you are on with meredith mcgehee with issue one. go ahead. >> caller: thank you. i have just one question. i was wondering could the twitter site @real donald trump be a russian troll site? >> well, the honest answer to that is that really relies on twitter to determine whether they -- how they verify where these sites are. but i think in this case the tweets seem to be coming from the president, who confirms that he is tweeting. so you know, i thi

socialist, rather extreme liberal side, who has no prosecutorial experience and is funded by a citizens uniteduper pac by george soros. we get the politics we deserve in philadelphia. this is a dichotomy of candidates that is really disturbing for me. when you look at the issues, and i think black lives matter is a great example -- for some people, and i think krasner's one of these people, black lives matter means police brutality and police shooting of unarmed men. and i think that's true, and i agree -- black lives matter. "black lives matter" also matter around, are they getting the right educational opportunities? are they getting the right jobs? are we doing what we can around our poverty rate? he hasn't done anything on any of those things. he doesn't have any experience working on any of those things. "black lives matter" need to really matter every day -- when they're kids, when they're not in contact with police, when they're in school, when they need resources. let's make black and brown lives matter in philadelphia. >> and you at home, remember, rich did run during the primary seas

are actually allowed personhood and so if you take the personhood issue and connect it with the citizens united issue this is a key reason why we have the problems of our country and why i agree with you we probably are at an inflection point you know at some point the people are going to realize that yes they're being looted and it's not something that's the republican issue or democrat issue it's an issue of certain elements in our society that have decided that they don't respect the masses and all they think of them as consumers and folks that we can take from us in other words rachel maddow m.s.n. may say she can't really criticize corporate fascist in america because under the personhood fourteenth amendment they are talking about they can claim that they're being discriminated against and their feelings are being hurt well i mean it gives them the rights the rights to privacy so you see in some of these cases were corporations do things that are deleterious to the public good to the commons they come in and say you know we have the same rights as max kaiser so you can have one regional r

and what you preference the super pak with those court decisions including the supreme court citizens united we end up, step of having contribution we have a world with no contribution limits to the super pac which is therefore funded to litter the by a handful of people. 7880 percent of the money from the super pak came about from 100 americans those are the major players always seems we need to look at how '02 diversify the funding to make those officeholders less reliant on the whims of a couple of rich people and instead find a way to finance those elections, much broader base to compete with the of millionaires. >> to girl from the point of where the money comes from after never having run for office before but the difference between individual contributions and at 1.during the campaign during the general election cycle to show about 80 percent of funding in come where my opponent came from associations and facts those fund-raising groups. so of we were to have this cambers -- conversation it would be little different. and everybody probably knows to the penny but the exact average dura

kennedy: citizens united, go eat it. >> there was grassroots and social media and trump on social media. bannon is in a greats position. he descronlts to execute on anything because he was in the white house and didn't do anything there. he can just complain about stuff and say we need change. you can have all the open warfare you want. the scoreboard is bannon 3, mcconnell nothing. he has flake out, cork out, and luther strange. he doesn't have to do a heck of a lot and doesn't need a lot of money to do it. kennedy: the mitch mcconnell sides of this is personal for bannon. question you are stalking about people having to fulfill some litmus test saying they are going to vote against mitch mcconnell as majority lead per because steve bannon hates him so much, that's one of the things where voters can say what's in it for me. >> the president himself has been supporting more of the bannon candidates. he wants that majority to be intact. kennedy: and he wants to back candidates who will win. >> if you look sat flake and corker, they didn't look to be in strong positions and the began noon

but they don't literally believe in any factual way that's open to argument that united citizen of the so in that way i saw that same craig can occur in the obama administration. >> in that familiar cycle of the counter and the notion that you say the illusion of a progressive american history that brought obama to power, there is this notion that his election was part of a progressive forward notion that would probably indicate that america has changed forever. >> americans and their eyes looking at the end of history moment where we conquer all the problems that have plagued us only to find that history always wins. and with the election of barack obama there is a very much that feeling. i try to look at how easy that was to get caught up. this is a moment that is i say in the book, some enslaved black person on thomas jefferson's plantation were on george washington's plantation new in their heart of hearts that they were smarter. and i'm not being rhetorical about this. read this biography of thomas jefferson who is the father of this notion of government balancing its budgets, he

religious and financial interests to an extent i never thought possible what happened because of citizens united and the determination of a small group of right-wing billionaires to basically destroy our government and use it only to make themselves richer and richer. it is wrong. it's bad for america so yes it is our politics but it's also the policies they are pursuing. >> are there people that are doing it right that you can say yes he or she is -- >> i don't know because i only see what is in public and i have no access to the fights that they are waging to you by day. >> he says this is reassembling of the shrunken and beaten richard nixon and "the chicago tribune" says you take responsibility for the mistakes and proceed to blame everybody else. in the book is also quoted the news columnist. there are many more positive reviews by a longshot and the reason is this is a very balanced about. i take responsibility. i blame myself. i was a candidate. my name was on the ballot but if that is all there was to it, i wouldn't be writing a book. i wouldn't be talking about the continuing challenges

that's why we are against the dark money that came from the citizens united decision.ome from. of course in california we have laws about this and in the rest of the country. usually when you see a commercial, you see who paid for the ad on tv. why wouldn't you see who paid for the ad, at least $10,000 on social media. but again, all of a sudden this revelation occurred, and it's a big issue. and i think it requires a big conversation. but the proposal that senator warner and senator chloe by cher put forth is a modest, i think, approach to it. but it's an approach -- >> well, money not the subjectivity which she originally brought up how do you decide what is real and what is fake? >> if we were as congress to say we're going to reveal these ads, which we may do. we're going to show these ads because people should see -- it's very interesting. it's very dangerous. but if you would see these ads, but at the same time we would have a responsibility to protect. >> right. >> people who are being used in the ads as well. so it isn't -- this isn't a frivolous thing. and man

didn't believe barack obama was a legitimate president because they didn't believe he was a citizen of the unitedwas maybe this could be representing an actual birth certificate. but they don't literally believe in a factual way open to arguments that you are a citizen of the united states. they believe it because they have to believe it. i saw that same cry again and the obama administration. >> and that ran counter to the notion of the progressive american history that brought obama to power there was this notion that it was a part of a progressive notion that would indicate america has changed forever it wouldn't be turned back. >> this is the moment we conquer all of the problems and you find that history always wins. there is very much that sort of feeling and how easy it was to get caught up this was a moment of that sum enslaved black person on thomas jefferson's plantation or on george washington's plantation do in their heart of hearts that they were smarter than george washington. [laughter] i am not even being rhetorical about this. so he's the father of the notion of this balancing an

we have president of citizens united david bossie. what do you think for all of this?ow the obama campaign linked to this report? >> it is an amazing day. on both sides. paul manafort, rick gates' indictment and continuous roll out of information who was paying the perkins law firm and what money of that, that they were getting was being used to pay fusion. now what really is interesting is that the dnc and the leadership of the dnc today and in prior chairman claims no knowledge. no one inside of the obama campaign has any knowledge. it is just, no one knows who did it but we do know it was done. liz: so the democrats seem to be slicker than the republicans about stuff like this. >> well -- liz: you have worked on political opposition. i remember you when you were working on whitewater. you had the whitewater document. >> sure. liz: about hillary clinton. hillary clinton said you reported out a vast right-wing conspiracy. were these payments legal? >> first of all, there is nothing that in their appearance that makes them illegal. it is what the democrats were doing a

i think there's lots of money and both parties now, especially with citizens united and so what we have our politics to become more accountable to donors. why was the republican party in washington supporting a health bill that only something like 12% of the american people supported? because they were answering, they were being pushed by the freedom caucus, funded by these donors and answering to this donor network, not to their own constituents. that's buchanan's ideas, change the incentive, make it so they are afraid to be primary and they will answer the donors instead of their. [inaudible] we are partly led this way by our culture, how many conversations have you been in the last year were people are talking about politics and they say will be hillary and we all have to learn these lessons that it's about the rules. it's about power and the democrats in washington were so focused on washington that they didn't even notice they were losing all of the states. again, this is a strategy that is informed by virginia's economy and enforced by the coke donor network. they now have trifect

they are behind david bosse, an old clinton foe, citizens united guy. they funded that.art, on and on and on. what's the significance of them being a part of the probe? >> they have to look at oh potential avenues of collusion. i would add i've seen a lot of digital marketing companies you'ver overstating. cool words in that description of cambridge analytic ka. and analysis. you don't have to collude in all of this. if russians set the pace and hacking materials dumping it on the internet hypervalues any political campaign. take the information, watch the influence and don't have to coordinate, just replicate. that's what we'll ultimately see. >> could russia have done what they did to the. tent without someone on the u.s. side helping them figure who to target? >> clint seems to think, and processes this could be done. all right? but i take a different view. i really think that somebody had to be at the pointiest end of the stick. we call these people targeteers. the people wdetermine down to te precinct level what data would really work? russians are well verses in pr

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of religious doodad extent and never thought possible because of citizens united a and the determination of those billionaires to destroy a government to make themselves richer and richer it is bad for americans and also the policies they are pursuing. >> to say yes?. >> i don't know. i only see what is in public and i have no access to the fights. >> some of the critics say hillary clinton is from the shrunken in a beaded richard nixon to take responsibility and blame everybody else but a lottery pay what you said. [laughter] simic there are many more positive reviews by a longshot so i take responsibility and i blame myself. i was the candidate. renee was all about it. so to talk about those continuing challenges from misogyny. and that is one of the reasons that i lost because and then to stop those republicans from that shrinking electorate. with that of unprecedented intervention. so-so of my critics don't like what i say and i understand that but i've been dave follow those shiny objects they after day with the research that shows to have a big half of trump and reality tv tactics.

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we are looking at a campaign finance system which as a result of citizens united is corrupt, allowinge looking at republican governors trying to suppress the vote, making it harder for poor people and people of color, for young people to participate. and i think of all of the enormous issues and problems facing this country, making sure we fight to protect and revitalize american democracy and take on all of those people who want to undermine what men and women fought and died to defend, that is our major task. >> seth: that's very important -- [ cheers and applause ] i think news like today and certainly it seems like there's news every week that, oh, here's a story about how something's going wrong for the trump administration but obviously they're accomplishing much in office. bringing down regulation, dangerous things. do you worry sometimes these russia stories can to the left provide a excitement of, "oh, this is almost over," when in fact it will probably go on forever and they need to focus on the ballot box as opposed to mueller? >> yes. i mean, i think we've got to work in t

unfortunately, as a result of citizens united, we have a corrupt campaign finance system. what this legislation is about is not for the working families, no matter what senator cruz may say. it's about benefiting the wealthy and the powerful and those who make large campaign contributions. >> you know, there's a pattern you see of democrats which is, they try to scare monger. their lets a villain is the koch brothers and they say money and politics is what it's all about. john adams said facts are stubborn things. you look at 2014. of the top 20 groups that gave money to politics, i guess listening to bernie they were all republican, no? that's not the case. 16 of the top 20 gave primarily to democrats. the top six, tom stire and the new york city, the nea, gave almost exclusively to democrats. where did these mysterious koch brothers fall on the list? number 59. democrats do great with rich people. in the last eight years under obama, rich people got richer. you know, the most stunning thing, gosh republicans don't care about young or old people or people who are struggli

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when you look at citizens united. how do you take that next step. >> one of the things that helps me a lot is my family. my daughter and my son and now four grandchildren and two step grandchildren. they help me through both of my cancer bouts. mother is realizing the importance of what i'm doing. i can't give way to any kind of burn out. i can stop for a moment. i read a chapter of a book. listen to a recording. before i was on the supreme court, i would take a walk by myself. stop far while and go back to it. you realized it's very important that if you done it right. >> that it the last answer by the justice. i do want to present you with a bouquet from my favorite art -- artist in kenya. these are beaded flowers, hand beaded flowers. you represent so much and you're a thing -- a woman of beauty and strength and inspiration. we hope these will help inspire you on those days when you need inspiration. so you will stay there forever. [laughter] [applause] [applause] >> thank you all for coming. >> members of congress

world of super pacs where a result of a couple of course decisions including the supreme court's citizens united, we have ended up where instead of having contribution limits on what can be given to candidates and, therefore, spent, we have a world with no contribution limit to the super pacs which are therefore funded literally by a handful of people picky to look in the last election, 70, 80% of the money to the super pacs came from about 100 americans. and those become the major players. so it seems to me what we need to be looking at is how to diversify the funding, how to make officeholders, candidates and officeholders less reliant on the whims of a couple rich people, and instead find a way to finance those elections from a much broader base and provide alternative sources of money to compete with the millionaires. >> i was just a tee off on that. the point about where the money comes from. .. after never having run for office before but the difference between individual contributions and at 1.during the campaign during the general election cycle to show about 80 percent of funding in tho

religious and financial interests to an extent i never thought possible but happened because of citizens united and the determination of a small group of right-wing billionaires to basically destroy our government and to use it only to make themselves richer and richer. it is wrong, it is bad for america. so, yes, it's our politics, but it's also the policies that they are pursuing. >> are there people in the bush white -- in the trump white house that are doing it right? people who can say, yes, he or she is doing a good job? >> i don't, i don't really know because i only see what's in public, and i have no access to what the fights are that they're waging day by day. >> from the book, dave weigel, some of the critics, he says this bitter memoir is resembling of the shrunken, beaten richard nixon and john cass saying you take responsibility for your mistakes and proceed to blame everybody else. and you also quote a new york post columnist and i won't repeat what he said. [laughter] >> there are many more positive reviews by a long shot, and the reason is because this is a balanced book. i take

up destroying people here you have the liberals in the conservatives at times squawking about citizens united what about this kind of politics to take there are new shows after new shows and hosts after hosts who. took this as gospel and ran with it as the quote breaking news it also that's the point it says so much about our mainstream media the fact they were able to accept this hook line and sinker just like every other part of russia gate i mean do you see this changing it seems like russia gate is falling apart before our very eyes and they're still running with it well is it changing let's go to the very top the buck stops at the top is a t.n.t. going to get rid of jeff zucker jeff zucker allowed his people to go out only air with unsubstantiated information reported to the american people in june of this hatred towards trump gin up the sacred towards russia make them the bogeyman and they couldn't prove it they took a paid political document and used it as a news story and use it as reference jeff zucker should be fired if anybody's got any guts on the border. they ought to check that

look at citizens united and some of the other cases that are your ng when we read dissent. how do you go on, how do you next step? >> you are an inspiration to so of that le, the weight does that affect -- justice ginsberg: one of the lot is myt helps me a family. my daughter and my son and now four grandchildren and two step grandchildren. they help me through both of my cancer bouts. another is realizing the of what i'm doing. i can't give way to any kind of can stop for a moment. i read a chapter of a book. listen to a recording. before i was on the supreme court, i would take a walk by myself. [laughter] justice ginsberg: stop for a while and then go back to it and realize that it's very important that it be done and be done right. judge williams: so that is the last answer by the justice. want to present you, justice, though, with a bouquet my favorite artist in kenya. ustice ginsberg: oh, how beautiful. judge williams: these are beaded lowers, hand flowers. you represent so much and you're a thing -- a woman of beauty and strength and inspiration. we hope these will h

what do you see is a potential -- as a potential impact on citizens united? mr.aun: when you look at the banking space, the regionals are domestic players. there is very little we can do in terms of the global companies in the s&p, make sure the revenues that there -- that are jurisdictions, so they have lower effective tax rates. we take it on the chin. the blended rate for regional, mastic/regional is 31% or 32%. tax -- few taxew programs we invest in, like low income housing credits. if you saw the rate actually reduce from something like 35% that is 20's, say 25%, a meaningful change in terms of our after-tax cash flow, eps, and return on tangible equity. not only are we in favor of that because it benefits us directly, but i think corporate america is waiting for that, and that will help unlock some analysts bureaus and pick up the economy and long demands. we would also benefit in that regard as well. ,carlet: bruce van saun chairman and ceo of citizens financial. thank you for joining us today following your third-quarter results. white house press secreta

that was before citizens united. that was before that decision am amped up industry power to the point where it can now ram through conflicted and general candidates with as happened this morning unanimous republican support. not one republican senator on the committee would voice an objection. when senators asked questions for the record in the environment and public works committee nomination hearing on wearum and dorsum these captured nominees played dumb about the sensitive programs they will oversee if confirmed. i asked dorsum if he agreed that the tobacco industry manipulated and obfuscated scientific research into the dangers of smoking for decades. end quote. dorsan, who conducted scientific studies designed, reviewed and paid for by the tobacco industry and whose name is all over in hundreds of places, the discovery records of the tobacco industry's denial operation replied, i do not have firsthand knowledge to comment. i do not have firsthand knowledge to comment. the president's selection to run the offic