postmaster general megan brennan to double-team rate the postal service charges amazon.com. post-master general megan brennan has so far resisted trump's demand explaining in multiple conversations occurring this year and last that these arrangements are bound by contracts and must be reviewed by a regulatory commission. post-master general megan brennan and president trump have met at the white house about this matter several times, starting last year. "the meetings have never appeared on trump's public schedule." but somewhere along the line somebody locks the list up in a safe, right? somewhere along the line somebody truthfully decides they're going to answer investigators' questions about it. somewhere along the line the president will have m miscalculated when he figured these other public officials who supposedly work for him, he will have miscalculated when he figured that they'd all go along with his idea that they should use their agencies to settle his personal scores when he tells them to. somewhere along the line three people with knowledge of these previously s

"the washington post" reports president trump personally pushed post master general megan brennan toble postal rates on amazon and others on four separate occasions. why? last month, trump tweeted, quote, only fools or worse are saying our money-losing post office makes money with amazon. they lose a fortune. this will be changed. while amazon may be able to blame for a lot of things, ripping off the postal service is not one of them. amazon ships so many packages, it takes up an estimated 25% of the services package delivery volume. so like other companies that ship such large quantities, amazon has negotiated discounts to bring down its costs. even so, post-master brennan has told the president the relationship is still beneficial to the postal service, according to "the washington post." but with all the revenue that amazon generates, it's still not enough to offset the big drop in first class mail volumes in recent years. it is true that the rise of online commerce has hurt many brick and mortar retailers and eliminated jobs in the process. amazon and others have boosted employme

the postmaster general by the way, megan brennan, she began her career in the postal service as a letterarrier in lancaster, pennsylvania. she is, as a personal story, one of the post office's most successful personal stories climbing that ladder. but her appointment is controlled by a board. >> right. >> the president does appoint the people to that board. so if president trump has said to her in these meetings, if you don't get this done, if you don't persuade them to raise the rates, i will replace enough of them to get rid of you. then we're in criminal territory. >> well, and he can do that because there are seven vacancies now on the postal board of governors, which determines what this kind of step child of an agency -- it's sort of like amtrak. it's not a conventional agency of government, the u.s. postal service. but the board of governors, when he names new members, they can vote her out and then, you know, go to work on maybe trying to break the contract that amazon has with the postal service, which by the way, the postal service makes money on. when trump says they lose mone

megan. but i do think there's a fair frustration just in the sense that he had previously supported john brennan and you also look at someone like senator feinstein that previously supported john brennan. >> trish: that was before the 6,000 page senate report on torture came out. >> lisa: they also knew that john brennan had been involved in a more intimate and higher up way. >> harris: for the mind. farther down the food chain. >> lisa: i think there is a fair frustration in what looked like a double standard or hypocrisy. having supported john brennan but not supporting gina haspel and citing that, the enhanced interrogation as what is disqualifying for her nomination. i do think there is a fair criticism as well to people now coming out against gina haspel were before for john brennan. >> harris: senator johnson of north dakota told me yesterday that this is going to be tight. and notwithstanding senator mccain or rand paul, you're going to need the help of democrats. we saw joe manchin of west virginia, very red state. hamlet said red suit because the when. we are seeing some players on the