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Speaker 1: Analysis from the panel Today. Bloomberg Politics contributor and Democratic

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Speaker 1: Doug High. It's the second time we've seen a president

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Speaker 1: interim report. I guess I'm just wondering if this is

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Speaker 1: ever going to be if if certainly Republicans take the House, Michael,

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Speaker 1: if this is ever going to be really concluded. Knowing

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Speaker 1: that this this could have been the last word tonight,

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Speaker 1: but the committee is allowing for more time, right, because

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Speaker 1: more evidence keeps coming in. As you just suggested in

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Speaker 1: the tease to this conversation, there may be a witness

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Speaker 1: tampering investigation that now has just surfaced by the Trump

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Speaker 1: call to a perspective witness. And we know from the

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Speaker 1: reporting in the newspaper that after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony. More

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Speaker 1: people have found a spine and have come forward to

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Speaker 1: say what they know, So you know, you can't blame

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Speaker 1: the committee if people who were stone walling them all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden decide that you don't want it's time

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Speaker 1: for me to speak there that I know, and so

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Speaker 1: it goes on. But of course, from a criminal law standpoint,

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Speaker 1: none of this really matters. The only one that makes

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Speaker 1: that determination as the Attorney General. Do you expect to

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Speaker 1: hear more on witness tamperings? And how is important? How

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Speaker 1: important is it for them to follow up on that

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Speaker 1: having opened that canon worms just two weeks ago. I

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Speaker 1: think it's important for them to follow up on that

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Speaker 1: because it's a standalone criminal offense to tamper with a

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Speaker 1: witnesses testimony, and it doesn't require you know, this big

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Speaker 1: lie and defrauding the United States sort of evidence it

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Speaker 1: could be in and other self sufficient to bring for

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Speaker 1: a Merrick Garland to bring a charge this committee, that's

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Speaker 1: going to be the focus. I don't think that's going

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Speaker 1: to be the the because it's going to be on

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Speaker 1: his inaction slash cheerleading of the event, and that when

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Speaker 1: pressed by his advisers to call it off. He was

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Speaker 1: reluctant to do so and only did so when they said, look,

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Speaker 1: if you don't do something, your cabinet may invoke the

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Speaker 1: amendment and where to have you removed. There'll be a

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Speaker 1: lot more where that came from. Starting at eight o'clock,

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing wonderful have new images, new sounds, certainly new

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Speaker 1: stories from the two witnesses. Michael Zelden, thank you, former

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Speaker 1: federal prosecutor with us on the fastest hour in politics.

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Speaker 1: Will reassemble the panel next. Genie and Doug are back in.

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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg. You're listening to Bloomberg. You sound on

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Speaker 1: with Joe Matthew on Bloomberg Radio. The headline on the

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Speaker 1: terminal jan six hearing to make case of Trump as

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Speaker 1: derelict in duty. Expect to hear that phrase more than

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Speaker 1: once tonight. It all comes down to what he was

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Speaker 1: doing during that eighties seven minutes in which the former

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Speaker 1: president waited before calling on his supporters to leave the capitol.

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Speaker 1: To that end, great reporting from Billy House on the terminal.

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Speaker 1: If you want to get ready for this tonight starts

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Speaker 1: at eight o'clock again Washington time. Billy says, look for

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Speaker 1: the committee to emphasize how even when Trump did issue

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Speaker 1: a video to supporters to leave the capital, he repeated

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Speaker 1: his fraudulent claim that the election was stolen. Remember go home,

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Speaker 1: we love you. You're very special there. I actually saw

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Speaker 1: an image earlier from the Rose Garden, kind of behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes, if you will, and I suspect we'll be

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Speaker 1: seeing more of those tonight. Let's reassemble the panel. Doug

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Speaker 1: High is with US Republican strategist along with Bloomberg Politics

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Speaker 1: contributor Democratic analyst Genie Schanz. No, uh, Doug, what's going

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Speaker 1: to be the most effective use of time tonight? I

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Speaker 1: have to admit, you know, hearing a droning opening statement

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Speaker 1: from Benny Thompson via zoom in his COVID quarantine is

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Speaker 1: probably not the kind of television most people are looking

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Speaker 1: for at eight o'clock. How do they make a count? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You know, that's one of the problems that we always

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Speaker 1: have with congressional hearings is members like hearing themselves, and

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Speaker 1: so questions are often speeches, and speeches are are even longer. Um,

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Speaker 1: what what's most effective is testimony directly from witnesses and

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Speaker 1: whatever video they have that we haven't seen, and the

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Speaker 1: combination of the two is what will be most effective

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Speaker 1: and we should always be mindful of and it's why

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Speaker 1: we've had so many of these hearings now is two things.

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Speaker 1: One the committee knows more than we do. And to

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Speaker 1: the committee doesn't know everything. They're learning things sometimes in

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Speaker 1: almost real time as we are, Genie. From a legal standpoint,

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Speaker 1: will there be more added to the case or is

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Speaker 1: this about telling the story? About wrapping up the story?

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Speaker 1: And and and I'm sure more wild versions of what happened,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think Representative Lauria really laid it out well.

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Speaker 1: You know, she's a navy veteran. She talked about the

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Speaker 1: fact can you imagine, you know, you have a ship's

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Speaker 1: captain and the ship is burning, and he is there

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Speaker 1: watching it happen and reveling in it. And and that's

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Speaker 1: really what they're going to focus on in this one

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Speaker 1: and eighty seven minute gap of what he was doing.

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Speaker 1: And and I thought that it was so well said

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Speaker 1: by by your previous guest, by Michael, when he talked

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Speaker 1: about the political and the moral depravity of that. Now

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Speaker 1: to your question, whether that rises to the level of

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Speaker 1: illegality is another question. And there's several possibilities from conspiracy

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Speaker 1: to obstruction, to seditious conspiratorcy, to fraud and now to

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Speaker 1: witness tampering. So there's a lot available there. And I

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Speaker 1: thought Attorney General Merrick Garland yesterday when he came out

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Speaker 1: with a very strong statement that they are taking this

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Speaker 1: the d o J very seriously and looking into it.

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Speaker 1: So I think tonight it's less about, in my mind

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Speaker 1: at least, the legality and more about the fact that

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Speaker 1: you have the President of the United States doing nothing

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Speaker 1: as people are dying and being abused and the capital

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Speaker 1: is under attack. Doug, is the purpose of this committee

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Speaker 1: to build a legal case or set the record straight

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Speaker 1: for history? Are you gonna tell me it's both? It

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Speaker 1: is both. And look, let's be clear, there's politics involved

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Speaker 1: here as well, and I don't say that in a

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Speaker 1: negative sense per se. And one of the things that

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Speaker 1: we're seeing in this is that you're seeing more and

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Speaker 1: more of a Republicans trying to inch away from Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: Independent voters are seeing this and they are devastated by it.

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Speaker 1: They don't like they didn't like it before and now

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Speaker 1: they're being reminded of it. And just yesterday in the

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Speaker 1: Capitol Hill Club. Mike Pence was excuse me, in the Capital.

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Speaker 1: I believe Mike Pence was meeting with a group of

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Speaker 1: House Republicans. I don't think that would have happened three

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Speaker 1: months ago, given Trump's book proclivity to attack um Mike Pence.

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Speaker 1: But with the things we've seen over the past few weeks,

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Speaker 1: it makes it more palatable for those Republicans to do so.

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Speaker 1: Doug High is with us and Jeanne Schanzano or panel.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you both about your travel plans.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's because everything changes here if you

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Speaker 1: just ask Nancy Pelosi. This idea of Pelosi, the Speaker

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Speaker 1: of the House, traveling to Taiwan on what could be

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Speaker 1: the very day or just following a meeting between President

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Speaker 1: Biden and President she has people all worked up here

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Speaker 1: in the Capital. If you're not aware of this story

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Speaker 1: and it is on the terminal, Uh, it took on

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Speaker 1: another of another form today as we heard from Nancy Pelosi.

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Speaker 1: But I want to just back up for a second.

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Speaker 1: Listen to President Biden as he got back from Massachusetts yesterday. Uh,

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Speaker 1: not knowing of course that he had COVID at that

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Speaker 1: point when he was asked about Nancy Pelosi traveling to Taiwan. Here,

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Speaker 1: he is, the military thinks it's not a good idea

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Speaker 1: right now, but uh, I don't know what the status

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Speaker 1: of it is. The military thinks it's not a good okay.

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Speaker 1: So and this, by the way, was within hours of

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Speaker 1: the of the headline breaking on his potential meeting here

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Speaker 1: in the next ten days, they said with President she

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi asked about it today, two very different answers

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Speaker 1: from the same speaker. Here was the initial response. Discussed

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Speaker 1: my travel plan. It's it's a national it's a security issue. Uh.

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Speaker 1: You never even hear me say if I'm going to

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Speaker 1: London because it is a security issue, and so I

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Speaker 1: won't be discussing that now, Okay, nothing to see. By

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Speaker 1: the way, I love the London. That's like, was that

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Speaker 1: right out of Tom King's hand with even when I

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Speaker 1: I don't even let people know when I go to London,

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Speaker 1: like for the weekend. But then she came back around,

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Speaker 1: by the way she says he's not talking about it,

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Speaker 1: she did talk about it. Here's Nancy Pelosi. None of

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Speaker 1: us has ever said for independence when it comes to Taiwan.

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Speaker 1: That's up to Taiwan to decide. But if what you're

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Speaker 1: the inference to draw on from your comment is that

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Speaker 1: my going there is problematic, I think what the President

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Speaker 1: was saying is the maybe the military was afraid our

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Speaker 1: plan would get shot down or something like that by

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Speaker 1: the Chinese. I don't know exactly. I didn't see it.

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Speaker 1: I didn't hear it. You're telling me, and I've heard

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Speaker 1: it anecdotally, but I haven't heard it from the president. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is well, this is the day for hot takes

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Speaker 1: at the podium or podia in this case, Genie, both

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Speaker 1: ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. They thought that my plane was

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Speaker 1: going to be shot down. Is that what the speaker

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Speaker 1: should be saying today, Joe Matthew, Now I know why

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Speaker 1: you don't share your travel plans with me. This has

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Speaker 1: been a revelation, so thank you God. You know, just

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Speaker 1: very very strange. You know, I wasn't sure why. You know,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi first came out and said she hadn't spoke

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Speaker 1: with the president. She might have tried to do that

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Speaker 1: before she made the statement. And then this idea that

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Speaker 1: you know, this is equivalent to going to you know, London,

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Speaker 1: of all places, is laughable. And then, of course you

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Speaker 1: know the idea that this you know, the military concerned

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Speaker 1: about her plane being shot down. I think the reality

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Speaker 1: is is that the speaker likely should not be going

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Speaker 1: over there at this point. It is a massive, massive headache,

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Speaker 1: I think was the word used on Bloomberg Terminal. For

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Speaker 1: the president and the president of her party at a

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Speaker 1: time when they are facing huge crises at home, she

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Speaker 1: maybe needs to stay home. And I understand her desire

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Speaker 1: to make this trip and sort of repeat New Gingrich's trip,

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Speaker 1: but but at this point for her own party, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't make much sense. She she's planning to go in August,

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Speaker 1: had postponed it from April apparently, Doug and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you're gonna end up in London this weekend

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Speaker 1: per chance, But should she end up in Taiwan or

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Speaker 1: is it I mean, does it look like we're cow

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Speaker 1: towing if she cancels that trip, Well, you don't want

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Speaker 1: to know what fights I have looked that I'm looking

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Speaker 1: up on Google flights over the past hour, by the way,

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Speaker 1: but look to it highlights the fact that, um, there's

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Speaker 1: often a difference between Republicans and Democrats. We know that

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Speaker 1: but there's so often a difference in in Capitol Hill

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Speaker 1: and the White House, regardless of what party that is.

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Speaker 1: They have different priorities and they act on things differently,

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Speaker 1: just given the nature of the executive and the legislature.

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Speaker 1: So obviously they haven't coordinated here very obviously on some

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Speaker 1: level they may have to do so, given that this

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Speaker 1: has now become um an issue. You were deputy chief

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Speaker 1: of staff to Eric Canter, you know what it's like

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Speaker 1: to be in in the the senior ranks in the

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Speaker 1: United States House. How much coordination should there be between

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Speaker 1: Pelosi's office and the president. They're both talking like they

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Speaker 1: haven't spoken with each other. They're just just happen to

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Speaker 1: be hearing things and weighing in on it. Well, given

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Speaker 1: the nature of everything that's happening right now globally, you

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Speaker 1: would think there will be some coordination between the Speaker's

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Speaker 1: office in the White House. Regardless of that, there will

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Speaker 1: be coordination with the military, because it's you know, the

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Speaker 1: air force that flies you over, it's air force personnel.

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Speaker 1: Who are you know, staffing those flights and so forth,

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Speaker 1: So they'll have to coordinate in the congressional delegation sense,

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Speaker 1: the what's called a codell is what that trip would be.

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Speaker 1: But there's obviously a lot internationally and geopolitically happening, and

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Speaker 1: that's why I'm surprised there haven't been those conversations yet.

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Speaker 1: Maybe a planet for six months from now to save face, Genie,

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Speaker 1: is that a good move? You know that there's going

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Speaker 1: and maybe things have calmed down a bit. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a possibility. I think she's got to

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Speaker 1: And you know, if she was visiting England, she may

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Speaker 1: not need to discuss that with the military and the president.

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Speaker 1: But it's Taiwan and it is a hotbed for the

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Speaker 1: United States and this administration. The Speaker of the House,

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Speaker 1: of the party of the President should get that, you know,

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Speaker 1: lined up with the White House before going public on it. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be something to see this meeting come together.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting how the stakes have changed since the last one.

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Speaker 1: President Biden's had a couple of calls now a couple

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Speaker 1: of video calls with President She and we haven't seen

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Speaker 1: this much concern leading up to them, Doug, is that

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Speaker 1: because of Ukraine or something else? Well? Absolutely, and there's

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Speaker 1: certainly a sense that what would happen globally if China

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Speaker 1: if they go now, and if they were to go now,

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Speaker 1: we are in a very much more dangerous um political,

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Speaker 1: and I would think that that that would have been obviously,

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Speaker 1: as Doug was saying, it's approved by the military because

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Speaker 1: White House. And I think a big question with this

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Speaker 1: call is what is it say, for instance, about tariffs,

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Speaker 1: just one of the many issues on Biden's agenda, and

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Speaker 1: we still haven't gotten a decision on that, many people

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Speaker 1: waiting for that decision, and of course many others. Just

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Speaker 1: interesting to think that it's cool for the Speaker of

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Speaker 1: the House to touch down in the middle of a

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Speaker 1: war zone, do a photo op, have some meetings, but

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Speaker 1: don't you fly to Taiwan, where there's no war underway

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Speaker 1: right now. Doug High, great to have you back, and

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Speaker 1: of course Jeanie Chantino Bloomberg Politics contributors, great conversation. As always,

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Speaker 1: I look forward to these as we try to make

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