so, jeff white, housing program manager. and i'm here to present the results for fiscal 18-19 of the housing program and for ocii's major development project areas. you probably recall just a few months ago you saw an annual report. we were delayed due to changing the format of the report and we should be back on track. keep in mind the results that you are seeing are for as of june 2019. the report is in draft form so to the extent you have comments or suggestions, we're open to hearing those and when we get incorporated to those comments we'll get the draft circulated to interested parties and then post that on our website. thank you. >> so i'm going to go through in the same format report so overview of the housing program and the projects areas and the fiscal 18-19 results including marketing outcomes and then more specifics on housing completions and starts and projects and construction. a quick overview on sir tive kit of preference highlights. and then the small business enterprise and workforce highlights. here is a

. >> jeff mason, reuter's white house correspondent, a former federal pros c prosecutor. jeff, you wrote an article last week saying these hearings are consequential but dull into what if they're dull? they need be exciting to make a difference? >> they certainly don't and the fact that this week is going to continue with some witnesses specifically in touch with president trump means it is not moving into the faze this week and a key piece was the fact that there is hearsay involved. and they had not had contact with the president. and that will not be applicable this week. >> let's stay on that. the first two people testifying tomorrow will on that july 25th phone call. that being the case, what does that do to the remember argument? >> it really sends it crashing down. i think they have a great opportunity here for people on the call. and we have to remember we have not heard a recording of the call, and we need to confirm what was said. so there is no room for people who said what they said. >> ambassador, if people who are directly involved can defend the president's

. >> i'm joined now by democratic congresswoman mary gay scanlen, jeff bennett, white house correspondent for nbc news, michael mcfall, former u.s. ambassador to russia. congresswoman, your faith in television, how is it going right now? do you believe the fact when you're going to see people like bill taylor and vindman and the rest of them all trooping before cameras in hours of testimony publicly before -- we don't know how many networks are going to be covering this. is it going to change the voter? are they going to open their eyes to the significance of this scandal? >> i certainly hope so, and i would think that they would. this has been an investigation we haven't been able to put before the american people up until now. but we finally have the patriotic public servants who have been willing to come forward and talk about what has been happening whereas you said the president has been using -- abusing his power to impact our national security for his own private reasons. >> what's the difference between people readsing as they have the last several weeks about this damning testimo

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white supremacy story. whether or not you have use those to your benefit. jeff: the whiteness thing, yes, because it was all about identity. it was this idea that you are fighting for your tribe or something. if you were involved in the because ii'm in this hate other people and i want to hold them down. even in some of my speeches, i would say we are like the men on the alamo. we are standing up to the last line of the white race. these are things i would say up there to inspire people, to get them motivated and that. i think a lot of people see it -- brad was say acceleration. they see it as an attack on whiteness. as an attack on their solidarity, an attack on their people rather than the countermeasure of -- i hear very few groups in the white nationalist movement saying we want to hold these people down. we want to bring back slavery. that is something that a bunch of drunken guys at a backyard barbecue might say some thing like that, but that is not the real concern. there is going to be bigots and hateful people in every stage. they see it from a larger p

about the reaction at the white house because again this is something that we had seen sort of pieces come out about but this reversal from gordon sondland, this clarification as jeff bennett has laid out is significant because it is somebody who was very involved in these conversations with people who are key players inside and outside the white house, ali, and that you have a lot of folks reading this very carefully. i think you said 386 pages i believe this is. >> looking at it now, it's very lengthy and very detailed. i think the sandwich analogy is brilliant because people do seem to get caught up on what a word means but fundamentally this is a concept, an idea of what we're discussing and perhaps if we get the word out of the way it may e help. hallie, thank you, and jeff, thank you for your condensing these 300-some pages. >>> with all the damning evidence that investigators are gathering, what case or cases could be made for the articles of impeachment. joining me now, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, and jill winebanks, msnbc contributor. what hallie said -- the penny dropped for me and that is we think about these words and we think abo

it is november 26th, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennet, we begin with a court ruling that took a hammer to the argument that the president is using to stone wall the impeachment investigation a federal court judge has rejected the white house argument of absolute immunity. ruling that former white house counsel don mcgahn must testify in the impeachment investigation. now, the house judiciary committee subpoenaed mcgahn earlier this year for testimony on possible obstruction of justice on the mueller investigation. when the white house blocked his appearance, the committee sued and yesterday a federal judge sided with congress writing in her opinion, quote, this, stated simply, the primary take-away from the past 250 years of recorded american history is that presidents are not kings. this means that they do not have subjects, bound by loyalty or blood, whose destiny they are entitled to control. >> the judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler says mcgahn should quote appear promptly before the committee but an official tells nbc news th

reuters white house correspondent jeff mason. and "wall street journal" columnist peggy noonan. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. if republicans were hoping for a robert mueller like disappointment, that didn't happen. indemocrats were looking for that galvanizing watergate like moment, that hasn't happened either. still, the witnesses at last week's impeachment hearing shows a president more interested in his own political fortunes and engaged in intimidation, even committing the unforced error of attacking a witness during her televised hearing. ambassador sondland may feel the need to revise his statement again. perhaps most important, last week revealed just how consumed president trump is with the hearings, despite his respeeted claims to the contrary. how much will it all matter? there's little indication that republicans or democrats in congress were moved to change their minds one way or the other, but it is possible wh

jeff, any reaction from the white house? >> not just yet, katy. but generally, the reaction among republicans writ large is to rally around the president. even as you saw some of those republicans suggest that president trump's interaction with his ukrainian counterpart is inappropriate, if not wholly impeachable. so the strategy generally from republicans heading into this week's hearings is to introduce confusion, to introduce as many extraneous and dubious arguments as humanly possible really. to take this ukraine investigation down as many rabbit holes as they possibly can. one reason why we know that is because of the republican witness list that you referenced at the top of the show. so on wednesday, we can expect to hear republicans introduce hunter biden's name ad nauseam to give the effect of basically launching the kind of investigation in that hearing room that democrats allege president trump wanted ukrainian officials to launch into the bidens. but republicans will have their work cut out for them on wednesday and friday and here's wh

white house in 2020. former new york mayor actively planning to move into the race. attorney general jeff sessions is in entering the senate race and doing his first interview tonight leaving the trump administration. plus, sean spicer has been triggering resistance and now down to the quarterfinals of "dancing with the stars." here's his rate, hear his reaction to donald trump jr. and an epic showdown from everything from his defense to the abc whistle-blower. hello and welcome to "fox news at night," i am shannon bream with and a whole lot of breaking news right now. >> this is definitely an 11th hour attempt to put feet to the fire specifically those affecting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. by issuing this late hour subpoena of the house committee is heading up the impeachment inquiry and are now signaling that they badly want to hear directly from mulvaney before the investigation goes public next week. the house committee had already subpoenaed him back in october but that was for documents. now, they appear to want an answer as to whether mulvaney carried out the presiden

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>> reporter: as far as we know, jeff has not advised the white house or talked to president trump at hich is not surprising. the two men are not exactly on speaking terms. the timing of this is certainly interesting. this is jeff sessions' choice to make that announcement later today, we're told. he's going to jump into that republican primary. his fate is somewhat in the president's hands. he was just signing the paperwork to be on the ballot here, and the vice president was asked if he planned to jump in or campaign for his long-time friend jeff sessions. he said, we will let the people of alabama decide this race. that is pretty much an open question if president trump will let the people of alabama decide this race, or if he will put his hand on the scale and try to support another republican nominee. we are told by republicans close to the white house that president trump is angered by this, he does not want jeff sessions to run for senate, so it's hard to imagine him sitting on the sidelines watching all of this play out for him. jeff sessions wants his job back. he liked being

jeff sessions. he did not leave the white house on the best terms with donald trump. there are a lot of questions.ch mcconnell saying the people of alabama will figure this out. we want to get that feedback and i'm hopeful we will. does jeff sessions give them a better or worse chance to get that feedback into red territory. >> it gives a worse chance. you heard lindsey graham talking about i don't think he should do this, he was trying to be real pc about it. the president will not come out for him. shannon: we will plan that so people know what you are talking about. >> the whole campaign will be about what trump said about sessions. kind of ugly. the president is pretty out there when it comes to the job he did as attorney general. shannon: that is part of the risk for sessions clearly. >> in addition to that every republican and alabama which is pretty much everyone but the democratic senators from alabama is going to be pro-trump. donald trump has the highest approval rating in the state of alabama throughout the nation so it nobody will be on the right helping jeff sessions and i say thank y

jeff bennet at the white house, garrett hrkaake on capitol hill. how is each side preparing. >> they were looking at their star witnesses pointing out these are public servants, folks that served overseas often in dangerous places for long and highly credible careers. they want to make sure that the public trusts these witnesses and the stories they will tell about corruption. also getting away from the latin. democrats want to tell a story about bribery and extortion with these witnesses through the course of the week. republicans have a task here trying to separate president trump from these stories. republicans will make the point that neither one of them every spoke to president trump, rudy giuliani, or any of the other comments. they want to keep the president away from these proceedings. and the witness list that republicans would like to call. almost none of these people are liable to appear, but the fact that hunter biden is on this list, another board member, the still anonymous whistle-blower. those things will not happen but it shows the

i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennet. new information connected to the impeachment investigation a white house review of president trump's decision to freeze u.s. security assistance to ukraine has turned up hundreds of documents that reveal efforts to justify the hold after it was placed, according to three people familiar with the records. nbc news has not obtained copies of these documents. the post reports that quote in the early august email exchanges, acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney asked acting office of management and budget director for an update on the legal rationale for withholding aid and how much longer it could be delayed. trump had made the decision, according to white house officials, the prior month, without an assessment of the reasoning or legal justification. according to the post, ox omb staffers were arguing whether it was legal, and there were protests. and people familiar with the review telling the post that it was legal to hold the aid as long as they deemed it a temporary hold.

true and that is the big change from the first year to the second and third here of the trump white house and jeffknows better than i do with my observation has been you've had an evolution of the white house moving to the point where trump may be trump and we are now at the point that he can't be and is just that he's the press secretary communication advisor, national asecurity adviser, that's the y he ran his business and so it shouldn't surprise anybody that is the wayay he wants to run the white house. we can debate whether that is a good thing or badr thing for a long time but i think that is a factual observation. >> and that is one of the points in the book is leaving the title acting chief of staf chief of sg fill in the blank makes him more powerful than matheson. his supporters would argue he's getting things done so what if he's breaking the china. >> they see that as a badge of honor that it is a non- politically correct president who's coming and is getting things done. >> may be pulled off some of the layers in washington. >> following promises he made. if we have the broad discussi

, and that is the big change from the first year to the second and third year of the trump white house and jeffknows better than i do, but my observation has been that if you had an evolution of the white house moving to the point where trump could be trump and we are not nt the point where trump can be, and he has based this he's the national security adviser, that is the way that he ran his business and so it shouldn't surprise anybody that that is the way he wants to run the white house. can debate whether that is a good thing or bad thing but i think that is a factual observation. >> host: leaving the title acting chief of staff, acting fill in the blank makes him more powerful in the sense. his supporters would argue thats getting things done. >> guest: she sees that as a badge of honor that it's a non- politically correct president that has come in and is getting things done and following on promises he made. if we have the broader discussion about while the base of her potential believe and i don't think that and if they were to dwindle it wouldn't be because of this language or some of

how will all this play out to the race in the white house, jeff is here one of two democrats who votedo oppose the impeachment inquiry. the investigation impact on 2020, all that and a lot more as we look ahead on sunday morning features. ♪ in the public hearing in the impeachment inquiry will continue this upcoming week with eight officials are scheduled to testify. including u.s. ambassador to the european union gordon sondland whose name is come up so far. they heard testimony from william taylor and george kent, the dippy assistant secretary of state for europe and eastern europe. neither could answer this key question from john macklin. >> in this impeachment hearing today for treason or bribery and other high crimes, where is the impeachable offensive not call her either of you here today to assert there was an impeachable offense? >> shouted out, anyone and raining right now ratcliff how intel homeland security and also former federal prosecutor. it's always a pleasure to see you. thank you for being here. >> good to be with you. >> i want to look ahead but look back what is you

jeff zeleny of cnn, senior washington correspondent for cnn. anita kumar, white house correspondent for politico, and josh dawsey of "the washington nsst." in tipt after transcript, giuliani's role was pivotal. as josh reports, "top officials needed to cater to him" and gordon sondland, the to the european union, said in his testimony, "rudy had bad ises with ukraine and until rudy was satisfied, the president wasn't going to change his mind." josh, when you open your notebook, what does your reporting show? josh: time after time this week, giuliani's name came up more than 500 times in various witness testimony and what essentially was a nexus, as the esident is frustrated with ukraine and these various officials of the state department -- ambassadors, top folks in pompeo's orbit, all understand, if we don't pacify rudy giuliani, the president won't be happy. and they're reluctant, they're no thrilled about working with an outside personal lawyer who has the portfolio of ukraine. but they all wanted to mollify him. they all wanted to appease him, because he said

joined by kristin welker at the white house and jeff bennett on capitol hill and robert costa, nationalolitical reporter at the "washington post." we are expecting adam schiff within moments to be releasing those key transcripts. kristin welker, the president has been claiming without any evidence at all that these are going to be doctored transcripts so he's already been going after them on the transcripts. what about this white house counter attack? >> reporter: the white house continues to try to insist that the impeachment inquiry is illegitimate even though there has now been a vote, president trump arguing that a number of these witnesses are never trumpers without any evidence to back that up. as you point out, that remarkable tweet this morning responding to word that the whistleblow whistleblower has said that the whistleblower would answer written questions. the president saying written answers are not acceptable. of course, president trump submitted written answers to questions during the mueller investigation, refusing to sit for an in-person interview with robert mueller. s

ed: joining me now, reuters white house correspondent jeff mason.dent's here in new york, so you're covering him. >> that's right. ed: when you look at this, democrats suggesting it's going to be a legitimate inquiry, obviously, republicans disagree. we were told yesterday it's going to be more like the impeachment show on wednesday. >> i think the fact that it's being done in public makes it a show, and that's actually something mr. trump is objecting to. he said there shouldn't be public hearing, and then he clarified yesterday on the tarmac, no, he just doesn't think there should be hearings at all. ed: even though he was calling for more transparency a few days before that. >> he was. he tried to clarify by saying, look, this is a sham, and that is broadly the strategy that the white house and other republicans are taking. look, we should be discrediting this from the very beginning, it shouldn't be happening at all, it's an attempt to take somebody out of office who was democratically elected. ed: jackie speier said something else that caught m

hans nichols is at the white house. and jeff bennett is following the latest on capitol hill. jeff, sondland's testimony on wednesday, potentially, going to be extremely significant. not just for the president but for sondland himself. roger stone was just convicted of lying to congress. how might that factor into what sondland will say? >> right. well, i can tell you this. you have republican mark meadows who as you know is a close ally of president trump, meadows says that sondland is the wild card because neither democrats nor republicans know precisely what he will testify to. now, as you mentioned, sondland is a key player in all of this. he has emerged in a number of witness testimony. not just having a direct line to president trump but also being a direct conduit for this -- this pressure campaign. working alongside rudy giuliani to help form this shadow ukraine policy to put pressure on ukraine's leaders to open these investigations that might be politically beneficial to president trump. so as you mentioned, he's already had to amend his testimony once. initially, he

jeff sessions. >> welcome to the white house. >> i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaignm disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself and i would have quite simply picked somebody else. >> well, it's kind of hurtful. >> he took the job and then he said i'm going to recuse myself. i said what kind of a man is this? to immediately have recused himself is a disgrace. >> i'm going to recuse myself. jeff sessions didn't have a clue. i would say if i had one doover, it would be i would not have appointed jeff sessions to be attorney general. >> we could be hearing a lot more from the president about sessions in the near future. "the new york times" reports quote over the last week, mr. trump sent word to mr. sessions through allies that he would publicly attack him if he ran and "the washington post" reports quote, trump looms larger over the contest than any other republican. he has even joked to senators and white house aids that he would move to alabama and compete against sessions himself in the primary. all right. with us tonight michael steele

reuters white house correspondent jeff mason and "wall street journal" columnist peggy noonan.elcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. if republicans were hoping for a robert mueller-like disappointment, that didn't happen. if democrats were looking for that galvanizing watergate-like moment that hasn't happened yet either. still the witnesses at last week's impeachment hearings succeeded in portraying a president as less interested in helping ukraine than improving his own political fortunes. and one who engaged in intimidation even committing the unforced error of attacking a witness during her televised testimony. moreover the hearings only heightened anticipation for this week's appearance by ambassador gordon sondland who may feel revised to his story for the second time, some of which came to light just yesterday. perhaps most important last week revealed just how consumed president trump is with the hearings despite his repeate

white house officials today defied subpoenas to testify. there is a lot going on. so let us get the latest from our team of reporters. jeff bennett is on capitol hill. and hallie jackson is at the white house along with josh lederman who is in our washington bureau. he recently returned from a reporting trip in ukraine. jeff bepnnett, let's start with you. today, a couple transcripts were released. how are republicans responding to these transcripts? are they so claiming that these -- this testimony is being released selectively? >> you -- you are hearing that. jim jordan, who is on the house oversight committee, raised a number of questions about why these two transcripts today and why are we getting the ones from sondland and volker tomorrow? house democrats, for their part, haven't really given us a good answer as to why they have chosen to release transcripts on given days. but, yes, jordan is -- he is among those house republicans who have seemed to settled on there was no quid pro quo line that you hear president trump making from the other side of pennsylvania avenue. but there are those senate republicans who are

>> all right, joining me right now to talk about all this, david swerdlick and white house correspondent for reuters jefft, o,eff,thisisan interesting, i guess, you know, bit of advice to the 2020 candidates. is he right that you just can't, you know, lose sight of how people are feeling, thinking, living right now before you propose too much? >> well, i think the message behind that message, fred, is that he wants whoever becomes the democratic nominee to be able to win, and he's suggesting in pretty direct terms that he's concerned that some of the more pogressive candidates who are running right now are putting proposals out there that will not necessarily stand up in a general election. he doesn't name any names. but you have to assume particularly when he's mentioning health care that he has elizabeth warren in mind, bernie sanders in mind. it's interesting. it's coming from somebody who has so far really not weighed in very much on the primares and has obviously said that he's going to work very hard for whoever becomes the nominee. but he, like many democrats, wants to make sure that whoever that

also with me is white house correspondent jeff mason.oining us from new york former nrcc communications director matt gorman. and news executive and former washington bureau chief for vice news, shawnna thomas. and, andrew, i want to start with you. because since friday you had david holmes, the current state department official testifying about how he heard president trump and gordon sondland on a phone call. >> out to a restaurant in kiev. >> and president trump he says was checking in on the investigations. you have mark sandy on the hill testifying behind closed doors and the committee has also released the transcripts of jennifer williams and tim morrison. so what, from all of this, struck you as new and significant? >> any and everything that brings us to wednesday when gordon sondland testifies before the house intelligence committee is, i think, the most notable development over the last few days. the first thing being david holmes who is the embassy official in kiev witnessing gordon sondland and donald trump talking about the i

he made terrible fun of jeff sessions behind the scenes in the white house saying he was stupid in parta. which is funny. when we were in alabama, steve bannon made fun of me claiming that i was stupid because i went to the university of alabama. he went to georgetown.

so jeff, just within the raditin movement, the idea of the white civil rights movement, traditionally when i think of civil rights movements from the past, i think of a certain objective that they had, like desegregation, for example. within the nsm, what was the objective in terms of -- what did they want ultimately? >> the way we viewed it as that the white race was under attackg and that looking at it from the outside looking in, you could en say of course black people, of course all these other minority groups need their civil rights movements and accept when we go backck to like the 1960s when voting rights for even before that for women, for blacks and n all tthat, were not the same. , you know, now it's almost like in the movement we flipped that. we said, okay, now they have hiring ob,quotas, you know, thae give inn some cases a less ve qualified person art joburn. whe more qualified white person doesn't get the job, these werer all the thingsed we were tryingo overturn. hate crimes charges, that was something when i was in the movement i i hammered on that.g, if you get into

what do you think the white house attorneys should do as part of the hearing? >> listen i've said this -- jeff and kristen maffe heard before as well as david. i don't think -- again i don't think the president is under any obls to prove himself innocent here. the house they made the decision want to bring impeachment charges and bring the charges. they need to bring the evidence prove that the president did these things. he is under no obligation. and more ever there is going to be an upcome senate trial following in white house whatever you -- the hearings, and if i was -- if i was the white house i would hold back everything until the actual -- the actual trial. >> i think david's proposing what has been the white house strategy throughout which is basically to say the whole thing is a kangaroo court, a waist of time, the public hates it but never engaging on facts established. >> but that's an interesting strategy wait and see if they show up. >> i don't think it's just to be quiet. david is suggesting you say nothing. i think you will hear complaints this is a kangaroo court but you will

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jeff, the reporting about moving some impeachment witnesses potentially on loan to the white house backtheir home departments ahead of schedule, is that okay? i mean obviously the president can have whoever he wants to have working around him. >> he can, and we can draw our own conclusions about why they're being moved back. i mean, you know, i'm reminded of a line from phillip roth. the smallness of people was simply crushing. i mean, you know, the smallness of donald trump to punish these people for answering questions under oath when they've been subpoenaed is just -- but, you know, it's par for the course. i don't think it counts as obstruction of justice. i don't think it's witness intimidation. i don't think it's a crime or an impeachable offense, but it's just really, really small. >> david, i mean if some democrats considered the president tweeting about ambassador yovanovich witness intimidation, do you think there's anything, you know, not right about moving people out of their positions because they testified? >> >> well, i think it's unbecoming. it's sort of cheap and cheape

jeff sessions. the president reversed on people he has seen as enemies before but mike pence is the vice president. you know is aligned with the president. if right now the president and this whiteaying that they are not fans of jeff sessions i don't imagine the vice president mike pence will break with that to go campaign for jeff sessions when there are other republicans, conservative republicans who allied themselves with the white house running in that primary as well. neil: quickly, while i still have you eliza, polls are meaningless as you remind me, battleground states are indicating a different sentiment than in national polls, shows he has much more than a fighting chance winning back those states again. we're also getting a sense here, that the white house is quietly rooting for a democratic nominee let's say like elizabeth warren or even bernie sanders because moderate tends to score better for democrats, especially in these races, we saw, a couple of days back, especially when we saw them take over the house. especially when you look at polling numbers that joe biden for all his gaffs still enjoys. what do you think? >> republicans have made very clear that they thin

jeff sessions. i'm in concord, new hampshire as vice president pence is inside the statehouse filing the official paperwork for the trump/pence 2020. all eyes inside the white house and throughout the republican establishment are on what the president is going to say about jeff sessions. he is, of course -- it was just a year ago today that the president fired him. jeff sessions was largely quiet during that taunting as the you want belittled him. he's announcing la today, of course, president trump has already pledged to campaign against jeff sessions. that would be a fascinating dynamic to play out. we'll get a first look at that on saturday, perhaps, when president trump travels to alabama for a football game. of course, alabama is playing lsu in the biggest college football game of the week, politics front and center there. also, vice president is just about to sign that paperwork to make president trump an official 2020 candidate here in new hampshire. >> we'll see how the president navigates that possible political situation of 'bama versus lsu. >> reporter: he won't take sides in that race, kate. >> definitely smart about that one. joining me right n

he made terrible fun of jeff sessions behind the scenes in the white house saying he was stupid in part because he went to alabama, the university of alabama. which is funny. when we were in alabama, steve bannon made fun of me claiming that i was stupid because i went to the university of alabama. he went to georgetown. >> oh, well. >> it's all very interesting. so, donald trump's going down to alabama, very interesting, to a place that he thinks has stupid people there. >> well that's not very nice. meanwhile, the current ag, william barr, reportedly declined the president's request to publicly declare that trump broke no laws in his telephone call with ukraine's leader. uh-oh. that's a problem. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it's thursday, november 7th. along with joe, willie and me we have former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analysts steve rattner. republican strat inch susan del percio and cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. we'll get to the reporting about william bar in a moment. also more testimony released in the impeachment probe, the top u.s.

jeff bezos disrupts will be your. >> we think a lot about how we make sure we don't leave white space to be disrupted by others.ovation in our dna and when you think about a consumer who loves to shop the brick-and-mortar drugstore but we can deliver to patient homes, mailbox, those are all the things that we've been working on, we have a simple dose where we can deliver prescriptions for the very high utilizing. were working hard not to allow others to disrupt our business model. >> obviously one of the things you do is contain cost. can you explain why you think that's a better way to do it than the government pays for everything system. >> you look today, a lot of the policy debates we see taken ways before us are focused on access to coverage. we believe there is an important item that is not getting a nearly enough discussion and that the focus on outcomes. that's what our business model is really driving, back to the notion of getting consumers more engaged in their health and that will help improve health outcomes in doing so reduce overall healthcare costs, the private sector plays an important role in

judges can star, robert, ray randolph, edith jones, doug ginsberg, jeff sodded in judge neil gorsuch's. also former attorney general and white house counsel, and senators tom and ben. that brings us to today's lecture. it is my privilege to introduce for this year's the honorable william barr attorney general of the united states. people serve in government for a wide variety of reasons in addition to public service. there is power, there is a stepping stone to higher office, or the prestige of having a position than the honor when received while serving the country an important role. but in the current case, it is really difficult to see how most of the self-serving incentives apply. but when this still does is performing a valuable public service. indeed much of his career has been spent performing exactly such services going back to his early days with the cia. he received his ma from columbia in chinese studies and that may come in handy. [laughter] his gw from george washington. he clerked for the underrated judge malcolm on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit and in fact the public service he worked under pr