Moulton on Markey’s endorsements: “They just released an ad with all these endorsers. The combined age of everyone in that ad is older than the United States of America.”
Harris Co DA on the 3 men who were in the van with Salgado Araujo and are still in ICE custody: “ I believe that the federal government is going to try to use the fact that they believe narcotics is present or was present in the car to try to remove them from the country. “
Harris Co DA “We don't believe that there are drugs in that car.” And says the FBI has explaining to do in unsealing the search warrant app into the Salgado Araujo shooting death.
Harris Co DA on Salgado Araujo death investigation: “I trust the men and women of the FBI Houston office implicitly…I do not trust the people in Washington DC and the people that are directing this investigation”
Asked the fmr VP also about TX Senate GOP primary, can a man impeached by his own party for bribery represent the conservatism you’ve written an entire book about?
The response from Mike Pence:
Mike Pence on Trump taking a stake in private companies like Intel: “the idea of literally having the federal government taking a percentage share of American businesses would have never even been discussed in the first Trump administration”
Mike Pence sees trouble in heartland for GOP. Says the Iowa Gov race is showing that. “There’s concern in the heartland, particularly on the farm.” He points to tariffs and the “populist right”
Mike Pence. Not a fan of Bill Pulte as acting DNI. “If memory serves, we actually said in the law that it requires a DNI with intelligence and security experience. And I expect there will be issues” around Pulte as Trump’s pick.
On the price tag of the war — Pentagon says Iran was has cost the US $25 billion so far. Sen King confirms the reporting that he’s been told it’s more like $50 billion.
Asked Sen King if he believes the Sec Def when he says Pentagon is still investigating the deadly strike on the elementary school in Iran. “No. It’s ridiculous…”
. @amoshochstein on the real costs of a deal and this war already. “They are in some weird ways stronger today than they were before the war” because they’ve consolidated power, they’ve stood up to the US and Israel. And they survived “and that’s all they needed”