i don't like to opine on things that i'm not really that conversant in. but i do agree that the system is breaking out. one of the major reasons, not the only reason obviously, but one of the major reasons is that you don't have good corporate leadership you say, so what i'll tell you so what. if you don't have good corporate leadership at companies, when the tide is high and things are great, it doesn't matter all these guys are running these companies, partying and having a good time and giving themselves bonuses, but it is different than the people who invest with them they're looking to get bonuses i go into it and there is a reason that we make so much money. just to make a point, over the years, if you invested at iep, annualized, made -- reinvested dividends you made an annual return of 15%. but why? because we go into companies and clean them up. and there is so much to clean up and it is getting much worse now. one of the worst countries in the world as far as corporate governance goes. i could go on and on that. the economy is breaking down i do

you cannot opine on a bank unless you've done some work so we're going to take a pass on that let's goa. >> hey, jim. >> i'd like to answer that but i have to ring a buzzer but i can't get the thing open i can't opine until they fix the theft problem because i ordered batteries from amazon faster than they try to open the thing. let's go to bob in florida bob? >> yeah, jim, thank you for all you do for us home gamers. regional bank, it has good fundamentals it's much less volatile than many other banks in the same space and 4% dividend. >> that's a bank i like. that's one i looked at when i looked at these things i said, come on, would you stop it already? i do like them every bank's suspect right now but i do like them and that, l.j., is the conclusion of the lightening round. >> the lightening round is sponsored by td ameritrade >>> coming up silicon valley will never be the same zuckerberg, meta, and a new doctrine for the future. next >>> silicon valley will never be the same no, i'm not talking about the demise of silicon valley bank. i'm talking about silicon valley as a phenomen

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that's why you're seeing the white house not opine on it, house democrats don't need to opine on the subject matter. what they do is laser focus on the republican malfeasance and their abdication of the actual integrity and responsibility of the house of representatives. nail them to the wall on that. and i would suggest this comes to outside groups, as well. because the white house is doing the right thing. they're focusing on doing the work of the american people, house democrats are, as well. but there must be scrutiny and consequences for what house republicans are doing under kevin mccarthy, jim jordan, james comer, and all the other circus participants we get to witness. >> david, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, book banning efforts have reached a fever pitch across the united states, but now they're coming up against an increasingly organized resistance. more on that after the break. with a majority of my patience with sensitivity, i see irritated gums and weak enamel. sensodyne sensitivity gum & enamel relieves sensitivity, helps restore gum h

good friend of mine actually, who opined that until international law. and in particular, until the rome statute of the international criminal court applies to all nations, it should not be applied to any. that is, you can't have a system of international law in which countries, like the u. s. unilaterally take the position that they are not going to be subject to the international criminal court. you can't then go after other parties. that's just not how it works. it's not fair, it's not just so, and i agree with that position. i don't think they should should have any jurisdiction as jurisdiction over every country. thank you so much for speaking to today or appreciate your insight, duncanville acumen, and labor rights lawyer. i think thank you. now the disastrous war in iraq, which left a trail of destruction under reported, 1000000 people dead is coming up on its grim 20th anniversary. we're bringing you our special coverage of the conflicts this through the oil rich country and the chaos and to stabilize the region for many years to come. ah or 20 y

this is to the anthem is not stale, which protesters against the law of opin agents sing right on the street, some of them have yellow-block bandages on their hands. we were singing, of course, they did not stop there, the protesters tried to break into the georgian parliament. they broke the windows, damaged several police cars, and threw molotov cocktails at the police themselves , see how the ukrainian maidans immediately blazed. well, the police, of course, turned on the water cannons, there were pepper gas and rubber bullets, how else to stop the violence , and then the cries of the western press literally merge into a single chorus, the german italian newspapers came out with the same eloquent photograph. it is really the same on the front pages of leading publications and the headlines are also carbon-copy water cannons against the eu flag as dictation know written text. eh, any instructions on what to do? this is every underlining of the european orientation. a distant underline that russia is an enemy, and we are adopting russian law. although no one can explain why he is rus

will develop, sisinpin was re-elected for a third term , what does this mean in 1979, when donets opin appointed to lead china, there was an agreement between the west and the united states of america that china would develop as an open country . it receives western investments. it receives western technologies, and these technologies will be used on to increase its economic potential, this was done in order for it to balance the aggressive soviet union at that time, and it also assumed that in politics there would be a re-election of general secretaries, so to speak let's say they will be in power for two terms, re-election is actually a semi-democratic country with a morning economy and open to education and this gives you the opportunity to develop when you have actually accumulated the potential in 2013, xi jinping is coming in 2013, we see the emergence of this alternative concept . now we see the consequences that he is running for a third term, having actually rejected the agreement, well, he rejected the agreement. let's say that the united states of america will develop indepe

thousands of russian diplomats are spying on how it wants to slow down russian ships in the gulf of opin, this is actually half of the estonian fleet exclusive party of the week from the coast baltic sea suitcase station russia and the great diplomatic commotion in tallinn, the russian ambassador packed his things ahead of time and returned to moscow estonia following other baltic countries sharply took a course to lower diplomatic relations with the aggressor and it seems that this is only the beginning of the inscription 100 russian-estonian relations, which recently seem to have reached a boiling point . moscow and russia replied , let's lower diplomatic relations to the level of chargé d'affaires. the same thing happened to latvia. and in lithuania, which sent the russian ambassador even earlier, they called eu countries get rid of russian diplomats throughout europe, why did the baltic countries go into open reconciliation with russia, in an exclusive interview, the fact of the week is explained by the minister of foreign affairs of estonia, urbas reinsalu, code severo caseism, we h

terms of inflicting a lot of damage to see that in the infrastructure and to see the lens, boucher opin. murray. awful. you know those places very well. ukrainian towns where rushes accused of all sorts of gross atrocities and war crimes, including the murder of civilians, rape the list, goes on. do you condemn these alleged crimes? ah, well, we heard a lot about that of they are totally different. absolutely different things boucher has been staged and there is no doubt about that stage by ukraine and special forces in murray. will you probably think about booming of the theatre over the in but the victims hit not been discovered. so all of these things we know, but also when we need to have a balance or we need that international community should be aware of what is happening in the bus where each day it was sailed, killed and exterminated for, for instance, do you know that? but he's an 11th grader that contains a lot of, you know, what prisoners was damaged and destroyed. why you couldn't and listens, for instance, war what shipping in kind of my doors. when the the people try to le

and he made the comments in an interview with al jazeera nick barker in london, boucher opin mary awful. you know those places very well. ukrainian towns where rushes accused of all sorts of gross atrocities and war crimes, including the motor of civilians, rape the list, goes on. do you condemn these alleged combs? well, we had a lot about that. they are totally different. absolutely different things boucher has been staged and there is no doubt about that stage by ukrainian special forces in mario. but you probably as think about booming of the theatre over the years, but the victims hit not been discovered. so all of these things we know, but also when we need to have a balance or we need that international community should be aware of what is happening in the bus. it's a crime, but nobody's speaking above it. so you're saying that all the evidence put forward regarding claims of atrocities carried out by russian forces in the lungs of boucher and pin a fake in boucher absolutely. it was fake mary but has nothing to do with these european i i'm not sure about that. pin because i did

the ones that far left, who hate donald trump, and everything about him, opine, he is admitted high paid mont money to keep someone quiet. so. that was a deal done by his former attorney. admitted purger michael cohen. now he is on tv saying how horrible he is, he made this deal. he made a deal on his own. when that deal was didn't he billed trump for it and that is how we get to where we are. two things are important. when you look at campaign finance law, and that vi violation. one was it campaign or personal funds, this is personal funds, this is not john edwards this is personal funds to resolve a civil settlement. and bright line test, would that payment have been made to anyone, irrespective of the campaign. the answer to that question said, he did it t protect himself and his family from mark: welcome back. i am here can donald trump's lawyer handling one of these rogue prosecutors this time in manhattan. joe tacopino. nondisclosure agreements, people coming going, severance payments, 10,000 of them signed every day. i suspect that the d.a. office has nondisclosure agreements, peo

the ones that far left, who hate donald trump, and everything about him, opine, he is admitted high paidal done by his former attorney. admitted purger michael cohen. now he is on tv saying how horrible he is, he made this deal. he made a deal on his own. when that deal was didn't he billed trump for it and that is how we get to where we are. two things are important. when you look at campaign finance law, and that v violation. one was it campaign or personal funds, this is personal funds, this is not john edwards this is personal funds to resolve a civil settlement. and bright line test, would that payment have been made to anyone, irrespective of the campaign. the answer to that question said, he did it protect himself and his family from personal embarrassment. mark: more when we return, we'll be right back. your heart is the beat of life. if you have heart failure, entrust your heart to entresto. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibito

horton opined that the that emancipation meant the end of america's greatness because it would inevitably result, in the mixing of races and every nation on the face of the earth. where such a mixture has taken place, has declined in its civilization and sunk down in ruin, as if wasted by a slow poison. the president, he had sunk america into a stinking slough of african despotism. the simple question to be decided, wrote a kansas editor, is the white man shall maintain his status of superiority or be sunk to the level of the --. lincoln's political condemned both his hard war policy cease and those policies apparent lack of success by the summer of 1864, as a presidential election approached. democrat charged that although lincoln's head ministration had failed to victory despite enormous sacrifices of blood and treasure, he remained unwilling to talk or consider any terms. but the restoration of the union. and after 1863, the abolition of slavery. southern whites saw those terms as absolute surrender. unconditioned or surrender. in one of the most bitterly contested presidential campaig

the ones that far left, who hate donald trump, and everything about him, opine, he is admitted high paidey. admitted purger michael cohen. now he is on tv saying how horrible he is, he made this deal. he made a deal on his own. when that deal was didn't he billed trump for it and that is how we get to where we are. two things are important. when you look at campaign finance law, and that vi violation. one was it campaign or personal funds, this is personal funds, this is not john edwards this is personal funds to resolve a civil settlement. and bright line test, would that payment have been made to anyone, irrespective of the campaign. the answer to that question said, he did it t protect himself and his family from oh! it's daylight saving time. what's the big deal? gasp! what's the big deal? what's the big deal? what's the big deal? what's the big deal? ♪marching band music♪ ♪marching band music♪ i'll get a cart. get two! scotts daylawn saving is the biggest deal of the year. stock up early and save up to $20 dollars on the best scotts products. this is eargo and they're virtually invi

thing is clear that every single legal scholar, former members of the federal election committee have opinedhat no crime was committed here, there was no campaign law violation at all. >> sean: let me ask you this. there is an article by msn.com, would include hurdles according to experts. at one point they say if bragg were to do this, it would be unusual for state prosecutor to use an alleged violation of a federal law rather than of a state campaign finance law as a grounds to elevate a false paperwork case from a misdemeanor to a felony but also it would be unusual to prosecute a presidential candidate for violating state as opposed to federal campaign finance laws. do you believe that they are doing something this unusual, first of all, do you believe it's unusual on purpose for the purpose of elevating what would otherwise would be a misdemeanor in new york to a felony nationally? >> yeah, sean. look, any prosecution in this matter would be completely unprecedented. meaning, this would be the first ever in history of this country, think about that. think about that statement. let that

given how many cautions have opined on the problem and how many reports in and out of government to talk about it over the decades, how many have tried and failed to change things added the fact you are here is a testament to the capacity to fight to cynicism on the issue which i greatly respect and admire given how important this issue is. you have some great panels and discussions lined up and of those who are speaking are far more impressive experts and thinkers and i am frankly but i will do what i can to contribute to the conversation and institutionally, i want you to know that we and the intelligence committee are ready to roll our sleeves up and make a difference on this issue. i thought i would say a little about why i thought this is so important to the country and then talk about some of the practical challenges we faced as we attempt to address the classification reform and a talk about some of the things we are doing to try to improve the situation. many have noted that the amount of classified information whether properly or not has increased significantly over the last 50

you don't get to opine get me a billionaire >> i'm far from that but i am concerned. >> i'm lookinggross margins and looking at the numbers. if you want to go look into the human soul in the ethos -- >> i want to talk about the fact that we'll soon be slaves to ai. >> are you short nvidia? send me an invitation to your funeral. jim fisk. >> this could be it. this could be the end of the human species, thanks to him. >> we were not that -- i don't know some people think we're eating soilient green. >> imitate him >> edward g. robinson. >> david can do edward g. robinson better than edward g. robinson. >> i'm not going to do it. >> less do heston. "people! >> western alliance. >> five minutes for opening bell with powerful, easy-to-use tools power e*trade makes complex trading easier react to fast-moving markets with dynamic charting and a futures ladder that lets you place, flatten, or reverse orders so you won't miss an opportunity (vo) is three hundred and ninety-one thousand four hundred that lets you place, flatten, and thirty-four square feet... enough space for your ambition? l

it's about opining. - this country is falling apart.houghts. - it's a financially successful formula for rupert murdoch, and even if rupert murdoch doesn't agree with some of the things on fox, he knows that their opinions sell. - this is one of the big challenges, for the media in particular, but it's really for the country as a whole. when there are media companies that specifically and cynically try to profit by telling you that up is down, and left is right, it becomes that much harder to sort of pull it together. - we have 100 more of these. i can't show 'em to you. - when i grew up we had seven newspapers. then we had four newspapers. now, we have three newspapers. we agreed on a set of facts that we could argue about. technology has revolutionized a lot of things, but it's also fragmented the media. and that fragmentation means we go to our ideologically comfortable corners, and we don't agree on a common set of facts. so how do you have a debate? - as we see politicians actually getting language lessons on how to turn their adve

i can't opine as much as i would like to what the market will do that day or the day after. >> would you be nervous if there wasn't about what that would signal to wall street investors? >> at this point getting nervous, even what the market has done and we've lived through? no, i don't get nervous easily i will tell you i think whether they go 25 on wednesday orrin, they're done after wednesday, in my view, they're done they still have the balance sheet tightening that's in effect that's something at some point in 2023 i think they're going to have to understand if that exercise continues or not. i'm not talking about rate cuts. i don't think that's the scenario we're in. the pace chairman greenspan raised rates in 13 months and in november of '94 raised 75 basis points and then, oh, here we go. orange county bankruptcy it feels so similar to the rapid pace in which we've raised rates in 2022 into 2023. i think we're done the bigger issue, what do they do with the balance sheet? >> i think that's a big question i want to pivot to what's actually working this week mega cap tech seems

jesse, you opined that it was about pharmaceuticals on the money he was making.ote from dr. fauci from ten years ago. i think it's worse. i think the motivation to not want to know the truth is worse. "if the pandemic should occur and a scientist is bitten by an animal, it would be worth the knowledge, the benefits of such experiments and resulting knowledge outweigh the risks." it sounds like a mad scientist to me. the fact that he trashes the department of energy, trashes the fbi, he wouldn't let redfield in. the created report that he quoted, said he didn't remember the names of the people who wrote it. i think a moratorium on gain of function that redfield is suggesting is a good thing. let's just talk about, why do we have gain of function? apparently the whole purpose of gain of function is critical to be ahead of a virus. so they develop vaccines so that they can get rid of a virus should it happen. here was the opposite, the virus came and we didn't have a vaccine and the same vaccine the pharmaceuticals are not going for fda approval because if you look

. >> i have opined here that in the four buckets that i perceive where he faces legal peril, this is, in my opinion, the weakest of them. i have to believe there's a risk here of this might not be the right word, but tainting the prosecutions that could follow. he has a right to vigorous oustly defend himself in the charges that might flow. what ien don't like is him calling for ro tests because it's reminiscent of january 6th. >> i think this is an important issue. this was not an insurrection. it was a riot. it was not an attempted coup because i didn't think donald trump had the wits to conduct a coup. but having seen the history, if he's calling people into the streets, this time he's seen the experience of january 6th and this is potentially very dangerous. so again, people, law enforcement in new york has to be concerned for the safety of the citizens of new york. but if something happens in this that allows trump to make it into a campaign issue, it's going to be very serious. i know this must be galling to many people, but keep your eye on the ball is what i'd say. if you don'

the non sequiturs and things he's supposed to opine upon.bout are they progressing towards their goal and what are the lag effects and what do they think the economy is going to do we dial forward the data in which the economy will have a slowdown or a recession because the nonrate sensitive parts of the economy have held up better than anticipated. >> speaking of rates i'm looking at the 10-year, 3.97 it was a midday move in interest rates today that unsettled the stock market if you want to call it that, which was primarily in the green for most of the day. big almost give it all up. nice move here as we head to the close. dow going out with a gain. i'll see you tomorrow. into o.t. with morgan and john >> it is day of faded gains here to kick off what is a very busy week for the markets that's the scorecard on wall street the action just getting started. welcome to "closing bell: overtime." morgan brennan with jon fortt. coming up on today's show, evercore founder roger altman with his outlook for deals as another merger comes under the mi

you saw the washington post editorial board opine perhaps this wasn't the best start.be the most serious starting gun in these legal challenges, but i'm curious. it might be that alvin bragg in manhattan has sort of broken the seal, therefore taking the pressure off of some of these other investigators and they no longer feel the pressure of going first, so perhaps down in fulton county, the prosecutor there can take their time. doesn't have to worry so much about the initial blowback. we've already gone through all of that. the first time around, you know, i know that the trump campaign that they see some of these other challenges as much more serious than what is going on in manhattan. obviously, the charges that are expected to be real there, that they are expected to be somewhat novel because they have to do with the hush payments that were paid to stormy daniels in 2016, but some of these other investigations are much more serious, and it's going to be interesting to see how the former president campaigns while in one ear his lawyers are saying don't say something

scholars and former chairmen of the federal and state campaign finance committees who have all said, all opinedys differently that these facts make out a crime. they do not. >> the only thing i'd say is if it would embolden the supporters why don't you want them to go ahead and charge and it sounds like you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. >> don't say i'm talking out of both sides of my mouth, if they indict him, i think it will embolden him because he will win this case and it will catapult him to the white house. that's what i said. what i am also saying is no one in their right mind wants to be indicted and charged falsely of a crime. i'm not talking about both sides of my mouth. i am stating facts and it will ultimately embolden supporters because he'll be proven to be wrongly accused and who wants to be charged falsely with a crime? nobody. >> joe tacopina, thank you for your time. >> the editor in chief of the just security blog. here we are, a likely indictment is pending here. what's your takeaway from joe tacopina? >> i thought what was most curious or what he didn't talk a

i think it's a great idea that doj is coming in here and at least opining and offering some guidance on how to best equip, train and most importantly supervise those units so they don't become, you know, units with a -- with a broad remit and basically, you know, out of control and not subjected to the rigorous sort of supervision that you need when you're really pushing the envelope on enforcing crime aggressively in places where the crime rates are very high. >> all right. elliott and andy, both of you stay there for a bit. in memphis there's new fallout over the fatal beating of tyre nichols as we were discussing. the doj announced that it will work with the city to review the memphis police department. this comes as we wait for memphis to release 20 hours of additional audio and video from that january incident, but a court today just ordered a delay. cnn's senior crime and justice correspondent shimon prokupecz is with us now. shimon, we were supposed to get this additional video, an ex trord amount of it, actually. what happens now? >> i don't know and i don't -- i'm not entire

definitely, barb, we are not opining on the accuracy of tha statement. are either of those really available defenses to donald trump? >> no. statute of limitations, yo know, ordinarily, it's fiv years. where more than five years out from 2016. but in manhattan, during the covid pandemic, the courts tol the statute of limitations so, it bought them extra time, in addition, if any part of th conspiracy spills into tha five-year period, then those activities can count including canceling thos efforts. so, i'm sure alvin bragg has done his calculation, and know how the statute is gonna planned this case. that's a nonstarter. defensive counsel, advice of counsel, it works on som occasions when somebody is, yo know, following a lawyer's advice to do something it does not negate your ow wrongdoing in most instances i doubt it would happen here donald trump knew that he wa concealing these busines records, as michael cohen ha said, the payments were done i small segment so that they could pass them off as legal expenses, he paid michael cohe on a monthly basis s

i definitely cannot opine on the future.t the last 12 years honing in on a lot of really great proprietary the systems to assess the health of the consumer, the reason our delinquencies are down and it's not only a positive trend for us, it's also a sackerly positive trend -- starkly positive trend relative to the rest of the industry. most credit card banks are reporting increased delinquencies while we are managing our number to the target is both structural and the advantage of affirm underwriting. structural because these are each transaction is approved individually. consumers come to the us and and ask, hey, can i borrow from affirm to buy anything from a workout equipment to the finance a large party, we get to the make a decision every time. and then on the other side of it, we've got really good underwriting. we look at all sorts of data, and we get smarter with every transaction. liz:ed good. we hope so. there are a lot of questions when people look at fin-techs these days, and right now squar, of course, founded b

why don't you opine on that? >> yeah, scott, and i think we talked about it earlier. just folks being off sides or on the other end of the trade and i'm not a technical analyst, but i understand price reactions i think part of that is true, and i think this move in the market continues to have legs. i think even if the commentary we'll see this week and powell, you know, i don't think there will be any surprises here i think they'll remain data-dependent, talk about being tactical and follow the info as they move forward, and i think that, you know, numbers will trend back i mean, we're still in seventh month deceleration as it remits to the cpi and ppi and even, you know, we saw a little bump in the pce, but i think, you know, even though the numbers were a swarm in february, i do think they could potentially -- they will potentially move lower, and that will give the market some legs here. >> all right joe, just wrap it up for me. highs of the day, bond yields have largely been cooperating, right? that was a significant story last week too. bond yields kept inching

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i will share with you that i believe the role of the commissioner is not to opine with her to support piece of legislation but tell you if we think it's administrated or not. to be oriented around with the tax code looks like more like how do we get the tools we need whatever you and your wisdom and act how do we implement it effectively? >> when we visited and i mentioned the difference and you say in the wisdom of congress it was a bill that was passed on partyline vote without a single republican in the house or senate voting for it. to view the service things you and i agree need to be done for the american people and taxpayers is 3 billion enough is this appropriation in terms of how the money is divided. how is it been allocated in a way to say let me divided the money differently? >> i want to be able to come back to you, senator. as i said earlier, we have been given a mandate by congress with several billions of dollars to improve taxpayers service. my commitment is to make sure it's spent wisely and we get the most out of the money so that it benefits all taxpayers and i wil

that's not the first time that a court opined that the law was probably broken in trump's handling of the mara lago documents. remember for that search warrant to have been executed at mara lago, a showing of probable cause would have had to have been made to the court. judge howell's ruling is not a guarantee of trump being charged , but it might be a sign that the documents case is a much bigger problem for trump than paying for stormy daniels. silence. the cover up is often worse than the crime, right? in the documents case, it may turn out that notes from trump's lawyer could reveal a plan and or action by the former president to cover up and or perpetrate improper conduct regarding classified documents. and that will make the case much more about obstruction. then the murky, no harm, no foul him to defenses. and the federal case seems to have gained steam. soon jack smith. is going to have to make a rather binary decision. did donald trump break the law and cannot be proven? he'll make a recommendation to aggie merrick garland based on the evidence. but garland is not obligated t

is clear that everyra single legal scholar, former members of the federal electiona committee have opined that no crime was here, that there wasuh no campaign law violation at all. >> well, let me ask you, this is an article by msn .com, and the headline is prosecutingn trump. stormy daniels money would include hurdles, according to expertsgxperts. he at one point, they say if braggd were to do this, it says itprosc would be unusual for a state prosecutor to use an alleged violation of a federalf law rather than of a state campaign finance law as a grounds to elevate a false paperwor k case fromd be a misdemeanor to a felony. but it would also be unusual to prosecute a presidential candidate for violatinndidate fc as opposed to federal campaign finance laws. e lado you believe that that th they're doing something this unusual? first of all, do you believe it's unusual on purpose for the purpose of elevating what would otherwise be a misdemeanor in new york to >> a felony nationally? yeah, sure. they clearly look, any prosecution in this matter would be completely unprecedented, meaning th

and the pragmatist cabinet pragmatist on the cabinet secretary shouldn't secretary really shouldn't opiningof stuff and messages have shown and these messages have shown actually how government functions. think sort functions. i think it's a sort of moment. so who the of mask off moment. so who the friends working friends were who was working with was undermining with who, who was undermining who, i thought very who, which i thought was very interesting i do interesting indeed. i mean, i do understand here is that i mean, matt hancock doesn't come out particularly well for many of these . what's up ? so messages so these. what's up? so messages so why on earth would you want to share them with everybody? well, he did . i share them with everybody? well, he did. i quite share them with everybody? well, he did . i quite clearly he's he did. i quite clearly he's rather angry about oakeshott has done the sharing for him, what he released them to and let people see what you know. she let her what was you did i mean if out of it they might have wanted nobody to see these messages. well i the publ

forth are things that we would've had access to, unless we can identify them, we cannot begin to a, opinever whether or not the risk assessment is accurate, and be, whether the mitigation that has been assigned as appropriate. we cannot do our job. in the special counsel cannot have veto authority over congress's ability to do it stop. it just cannot happen. it won't happen. and so it will change the nature of the relationship between this committee, which i think has been very cooperative. we don't have a lot of competition in terms of cooperation. but we are very cooperative. and a very proud of the work that this committee has done. and i don't want to get to that. it shouldn't get to that. but this is going to be addressed one way or another. >> and with the recognition that i run a risk that other members will come back with one last question, james, you'll get the last bite, and then once you get on that, question, i appreciate and i can speak for all members, we would all echo, all the moves on both sides would agree with what senator rubio and i have just said. >> chairman, i appr

given how many cautions have opined on the problem and how many reports in and out of government to talkbout it over the decades, how many have tried and failed to change things added the fact you are here is a testament to the capacity to fight to cynicism on the issue which i greatly respect and admire given how important this issue is. you have some great panels and discussions lined up and of those who are speaking are far more impressive experts and thinkers and i am frankly but i will do what i can to contribute to the conversation and institutionally, i want you to know that we and the intelligence committee are ready to roll our sleeves up and make a difference on this issue. i thought i would say a little about why i thought this is so important to the country and then talk about some of the practical challenges we faced as we attempt to address the classification reform and a talk about some of the things we are doing to try to improve the situation. many have noted that the amount of classified information whether properly or not has increased significantly over the last 50 ye

i promise you tell be released and we have the opportunity to opine on it. >> you can say i know youot the only witness in this case. you men the star witness but not the only witness. >> thank good knows, yes i'm not the only witness. >> are you red for the cross examination. >> absolutely. do you continuing can be worse than the residence during the house oversight committee 9 hours with 5 hours of it being [inaudible] by republican who is did not want to ask mow a question about their supreme leader. they followed the message. that is something i it done for over 10 yers with donald you followed the mess knowledge he want this is got mow in trouble. i said to mark meadow's or jim jordan or both. i know had you are doing. because i know the play. i wrote the play boovenlg look at hahappened to me. and not good. what happened to me will happen to you. and that's what is happening now. >> one defense is likely to be this was not about the election at all this was donald trump will keeping a personal matter private. >> the documents will peek for themselves. jot documents. >> not just

many legal scholars have opined. payment to being -- >> that gets to the final third question which is the most important one as you identify was this connected to the election, and the payment was made just days before the election. i assume that in addition to the testimony from michael cohen, you're going to have testimony from others suggesting that, in fact, it was connected to the election. the president was making this payment so this wouldn't come out before the ele >> so there's a crucial ctn. distinction here, george. there really is. separating campaign funds from personal funds. this was made with personal funds. had this been made -- >> that would be a contribution to his campaign. >> by his personal funds, it's been made. it's not a contribution to his campaign. he made this with personal funds to prevent something coming out false, but embarrassing to himself, his family, his young son. that's not a campaign finance violation, not by any stretch. so personal funds and personal use of funds, spending to