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Mike Quigley

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“I'm still the purest. I'm happy that the ballpark's going to be there another hundred years. And I understand the development that goes with it. My favorite ballpark and one of my favorite places in the universe there. I'm still the purest. What did Ernie say? He played all his years under God's own light. Let's play two today”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think people need to understand something. Dallas Green gun arrest him. He was a great general manager He came from Philadelphia. His original plan was to put in artificial turf and have seventy night games. And we forced them to push back on that, and they transitioned. We also got a better deal for cub fans and the neighborhood. Parking programs, right? A permit parking, more trains and buses, remote parking, more security issues.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is, I would say there aren't nearly as many Hockey players in Congress as there are golfers and baseball players. It's still. Tomorrow I'll be playing hockey at 6 30 in the morning in Chicago and after a stressful week of dealing with the issues of the world there's nothing like still getting out there and playing with folks who are probably too old to do so.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. They have more members than any time since Hoover and they shut down the government and kick out their speaker I told Nancy that I would wait until after November. I will say this. She's been very fair to me. She comes from my two committees, so she and I have had thoughtful and Discussions about policy. And I find myself in an odd place. Given how many people seem to feel of defending her, this is hurting a lot of cats at a difficult time.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The first thing I would do if I was a freshman coming in was to change the R system of committee leadership. We just had Mr. Nadler become the chairman of judiciary after a twenty five year wait. Republicans have term limits and they turn that cycle over and gives other people a chance to do it.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're on that Intel committee. You're just relitigating the election. And I said, I should have been calmer. I said, perhaps, but you guys seem to be relitigating the Civil War. Perhaps it's time for us to remind ourselves of what Lincoln said at the Second Inaugural. He talked of the significance of what was taking place in no small manner. But then he paraphrased the scriptures. He spoke to us. manner in which we were accustomed to appeal to our better angel or angels of our nature that we should move forward with malice toward none I think we're having a hard time doing that and we have to try.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tell high school and college students read to kill a mockingbird, take up an Atticus Finch School of Domestic and Foreign Policy, try to walk around on the other person's skin. And a lot of that has to do with how we're getting our news. As you alluded to, there are those who only listen to one side of this. Growing up, we read print and the majority of our print publications had at least something in there that we disagreed with. If all the news you're getting is from a single source of social media or on your iPhone, it knows what you like. It's going to continually feed that understanding. And it's important for us now more than ever to get past that. After Charlottesville, I had someone come up to me and say,”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Um, People say, You're so calm. Why aren't you talking indictment impeachment? And I say, I'm not speaking to the base. I'm not speaking to the president's base because they're probably not listening. I'm trying to talk to the public who hasn't made up their mind or the hundred million who stayed home. Is a constant message from a worldwide and a national and a local basis that we're stronger together than we are divided and that isolationism doesn't work and polarization doesn't work in our own country. So how do you push back? I encourage people to try to understand the other side.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think the worldwide picture is to understand it that the liberal democratic order created after the Second World War is under attack by its primary architect, that the world doesn't see America first, as the people supporting the president do they see it as a selfish isolationist policy. When my constituents say when we are separating families at the border, that's not who we are. My message is I think to the rest of the world that's who we are right now.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's an ongoing challenge. I tried to be consistent with talking to my Democratic colleagues. Are those who wanted to talk about they filed impeachment months ago. I would say to them Even if that's your strategy, why wouldn't you wait till the investigation is complete? You may, if you think, you may get one shot at this. And for example, you wouldn't have had any information about Cohen if you did this months ago. I just think it's wrong. Just as I tell the folks on the far right who shut down the house investigation, that was wrong. So I think the fair and consistent message is impeachment isn't to be talked about or considered. Until molar completes his work.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a reason the president and Giuliani have talked about pardons, and I think they're waking people up to the fact, well, we have this absolute right. So it concerns me that the news continues to be bad on this front. I think the president had one of the worst hours of any presidency in our lifetime this week. When that happens, he tends to react harshly. We hear reports of him wanting to fire Moeller and his aides pushing back, wanting to grant pardons and his aides pushing back. Who knows what's happening behind the scenes at the White House, but a bad result in November, other indictments in the meantime? Know what keeps me up at night is that how will we handle a constitutional crisis?”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's reason to bring him back. How this plays out, I think, in large part depends on what happens in November, which is very hard to predict. I'm concerned that... What the president will see if the Democrats take control of the House is additional pressure. The fact that the investigation the chairman would no longer be mister Nunez on the House side, it would be Adam Schiff and the chairman of Judiciary Committee would be Mr Nadler, an oversight would be Mr Cummings, and there would be subpoenas forthcoming in his mind. So, what are you saying?”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Before or after the election, my concern is that we face the constitutional crisis, that the president will use the pardon, that he will fire the special prosecutor, that he will do anything in his, this is the president who did whatever he felt he had to to get power throughout his whole life. Why would anyone imagine he would do anything that he wouldn't do anything just to maintain it? Now you talked about people's testimony and we don't generally talk about what people have said in our hearings, but Adam Schiff, the ranking dim on the committee, said If people don't answer our questions, that's the exception. Under Mr. Schiff's question, Mr. Sessions refused to answer. Whether the president ever asked him to do anything to obstruct the investigation.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Almost like a scene from good fellas or the godfather where the most important trait a person can have is that they don't flip on you. Never mind truth and justice and finding out what took place. I would ask the American public to look at that and think about how the president has handled this investigation, what it means. Why would you believe him when that is the most important area of concern that which protects him?”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think he was sending a message, and when he constantly talks about that, he's helping to obstruct the investigation. I think he's messaging publicly to Manafort. Don't worry, I've got your back.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that Mr. Cohen. Trump Jr. And others need to come back in light of new documents, new revelations, new issues that have become aware to the public they should come back under subpoena. And be forced to answer questions, I think they are many of them refuse to answer the questions because they just didn't feel like they had to. And that made it very, very difficult. And I think they understood that there's two things at play here. Prior to many of these interviews, the president pardoned The Arizona Sheriff. I think”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know if what Mr. Moeller is doing relating to money laundering, we never touch scratch the surface. I'm very well of the well or the issues. I don't know what the Mueller investigation is doing. I don't know if they're just focusing on conspiracy obstruction and the issue that came out this week with Mr. Cohen.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think the president reacts strongly at critical times. So it's hard to know exactly. I don't know how the Moller investigation is proceeding. We are on separate tracks, obviously. But apparently at critical times, and one of them was when it became obvious he was looking into the president's finances, the president reacts most dramatically. Deutsche Bank is fined over $600 million for work helping the Russians launder money illegally. The president is getting the majority of his citizen Trump is getting his finances through Deutsche Bank. It's hard to imagine that there's so many of these coincidences, so many of them meet in the same financial, I guess you'd say, cesspools of money laundering. Steve Bannon and the now infamous book says it's all about money laundering.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In these bitterly disappointed that it's not good enough, days later, the first batch of emails are released through Wikileaks coming from the Russians. So there are no coincidences. There are dozens of other issues. Why don't we know more beyond this? I think there's a lot more we can talk about when it becomes public. Because they tank the investigation and they shut it down prematurely. Remember, only Steve Bannon received a subpoena, and even then Chairman Nunez and others on the Republican side refused to press him on questions. They allowed the White House to inflict a gag order on members of their administration. They didn't have to talk about questions that they simply didn't want to answer. Well, let me ask you this. How about the other actions?”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they hire an opposition research firm and they're allowed to do that work. It's quite a different thing when the president's son. says we love it, we hope it's timed right to use for the election.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know any campaign that has met with the Russians. I can think of a few of my colleagues that maybe would do that, given their support of the president and the issue with the Russians.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, If there's anything that's once removed, it's still with the Russians. The Russians in the Kremlin playbook is often indirect attack. The Russians didn't release the emails on a Russian They chose Their intermediaries, and that's who they often use. So then there's the Trump Tower meeting where Trump Jr. says if that's what it is, we love it.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In April of sixteen. George Pompadopoulos meets with Russians who tell them who tell Popadopolis what they have. They have incriminating emails.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think Trump associates at least 12 Trump associates were communicating with the Russians. I can't talk about everything we learned and what we saw and who we met, but there were no coincidences in everything that we read and see about this. And everything is tied together.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I agree with the intelligence community's assessment from january twenty seventeen. The Russians acted in a manner to help one candidate. Candidate Trump and to hurt another Hillary Clinton and they had cooperation. They weaponized social media. They continue to weaponize cooperation for a moment.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Molar probe on a larger, but in the end, I think the White House feels that that would be a weakening, an acknowledgement that they were wrong all along. The president has never clearly said that this was the Russians who did this. He can't bring himself to do this because Especially after Helsinki It makes it tough. We are here resistance from states who say the same thing. They go, well, this is a witch hunt and a hoax, why do we need this money? And literally are saying to the feds. We don't want help. We don't want the government meddling in our elections. So apparently it's okay if the Russians.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's in their minds acknowledges that it's not a witch hunt and it's not a hoax. The president has never clearly...”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thirteen states have election equipment that doesn't even have a paper trail. So we wanted to find out what the Russians did. You couldn't prove it. There are over 40 states whose equipment is so old that anti-hacking modern software won't work on it. So while DNI coats is saying lights are blanking red While DNI Coates is saying the lights are blinking red and there's a real threat here, the president says this is a witch hunt and a hoax and this is creating a real problem for our country. We're not ready.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we got some money But it's clearly a one tenth of what we probably need. We were stymied on partisan lines. And for the life of me, it makes no sense. What I would tell my Republican friends is This just as easily could have been an attack as we've seen recently on Republicans as Democrat. You could easily imagine the Russians favoring a Democratic Over a Republican candidate if one was very hawkish, for example, or antagonistic toward the Russians. Bottom line is they hacked into somewhere. The fact that we don't know exactly is concerning, somewhere between 20 and 40 states Board of Elections databases. They got right up to the machines. And our machines...”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was able to. Had $380 million. So, as my predecessor's phrase would be the decimal point was in the wrong spot. That was for 2018. In my attempt to do it for 2019, I see.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of sooner and more I think the Intel Committee members probably didn't get enough. I think we should have gotten all of that as soon as possible. Mike Morell, the former acting director of the CIA, said this was the political equivalent of 9-11. If you put it in that context, and I think he was right. All of this information should have gone not just to the president, but to the gang of eight, but the Intel committee, and then some manner to Congress as a whole. We so value the democratic process that the last time it was called into question. After the Bush Gore election and hanging chads, right, going to the Supreme Court, we spent $3.5 billion buying new election equipment. Here, right? It is you introduced.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kennedy Trump was saying this is all rigged. And I think that probably heightened the sensitivities of White House personnel in the administration and their desire to avoid being seen as influence. Since we are looking back.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we weren't getting all that information at that time as members of the committee. But I think they were listening to the president of the United States say, this is all rigged.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some information was going as all Intel goes. There's some that only goes to the present. There's some that only goes to the president in the gang of eight. And then there's more information that goes to the present.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think looking back, it's easy with hindsight to say that. The White House was very aware. Of the fact that they didn't want to be seen as tipping the election. Saying something that people would be viewed as a partisan reaction to this. And I think despite the fact”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Based on what I'd heard in a variety of sources. Painful slow motion train wreck and we had incomplete information and it was hard to understand exactly how to react because We were modeling some of our response in terms of what the White House was doing. Did you think the White House?”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We were. And it was happening at the same time that what we knew was happening publicly. And again, what Director Comey was saying about other aspects of this investigation. We later learned was”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Started getting briefed about concerns of election interference. During 2016. It's a fascinating look back in discussing these issues with members of the Obama administration. About how they reacted to this and how people judged that reaction and what was taking place live. I don't think we fully grasp exactly what was taking place and the severity. But I do remember someone saying, well, there are nine thousand entities that run a federal election. They can't hack them all. I didn't think the Russians ever intended to hack them all. I think the Kremlin playbook is. Simply to attract liberal democratic institutions and attack their integrity. I thought the Russian attempt was to sow discord and to attack the integrity of our election progress. And they succeeded.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, especially today. And in Berlin and Moscow, they screamed the movie and decided not to release it or let it be seen because it made us look too good. Democracy is often ugly. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder that let the American public watch so at least they don't think they're being. Things are being hidden from them.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the problem is You can't watch the arguments before the Supreme Court. I think it would be great to be able to watch from a historical point of view the arguments of Brown versus Board of Education and Bush versus Gore, they changed the, in my mind, the outcome of a presidential election. And their reaction was, it doesn't look good. The Democratic process doesn't always look good. And my response was, it was the anniversary of the release of Mr. Smith goes to Washington. When that was released, the Senate didn't want it to go out because they thought it made us look too bad.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And people are paid $50 an hour to save spots online, which isn't exactly a Democratic process. And given that five justices can change.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the original law was an attempt to protect official records from the White House post Waterg White House were the ones that said that the president's tweets were his official record, and they were deleting these tweets. So I think it's perfectly saying, oh, if that's the case, then we got to protect that. So all the bills said was that the tweets become part of that record you can't delete. But I do want to touch on. I think it's across the board. My subcommittee on appropriations funds the Supreme Court. When I met with the justices and talked about the needs they have to fund the court. I said, I believe you should be on TV too, right? I think about 200 people can watch the Supreme Court in action.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think we are. I think there's more work we can accomplish on transparency. I think we can do it in a legislative basis. I sponsored the COPFEFA, which was sort of a... Snarky acronym, but it's become much more relevant. The attempt.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was on Colbert when I got to DC the first time and he said have you picked out your prison yet? You know, I hear corruption jokes from on the floor from guys from New Jersey in New Orleans. So I think, okay, we got an issue here. So I think it's important for us to at least try to show the American public that we can be transparent and accountable.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We could meet in. Really small rooms Unfortunately, we probably still can. It is a mystery to me because I think if there's one thing we could accomplish on a bipartisan basis is to push back on the view that we've lost the American public's trust. I think coming from Chicago and Illinois, sure. I know that two of the last four people who sat in my seat and sat in the governor's chair, R in jail or Winston.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My city and my state, it's sometimes hard to do because you can be criticized. Because you're working with Republicans. There are those who would, you know, if you work with Republicans, you're working with the president, and he is so... Hated in parts of my district that that's tough to do. So my message is I'm doing what I have to do to push back on Trump policies, but in the meantime, let me please try to get something done for the country and for my district.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's an issue that's reflective of where we are as a country. Then and now, occasionally we are picketed by groups from both extremes, both sides, extreme in the sense that they're extremely different from each other, farthest left and the farthest right. And I think it's reflective of the polarization that exists in the country and the fact that we are perhaps not listening to each other as much. I am at meetings in which There are a few well meaning folks who'll say get this done, but don't you compromise? And I feel like saying, which one do you want? Funding our government isn't easy. We don't have control of either house. Clearly not the White House. So I don't want to be a government in exile. I want to still try to get things done on the apropes process driving resources back to my district.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Congressman Mark Kirk sat down next to me after I was sworn in and he said most of the time anything that gets done here gets done in the middle. Which was, I think, very true for a lot of our legislation. I think a lot of us would have wanted. Go farther when we pass the health care law, for example. But it was an amazing Leap forward for health care for Americans when we got that.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I remember November of 2008 standing next to the stage when the president to be walked out with his family and promised them that puppy. And my wife said, so what are you going to do? There's a race with 23 people. I was fortunate to win the special election and to get to your question. You get sworn in by yourself. They literally, the next day they vote after the general, you go to Washington, D.C. They take a vote. They stop. Nancy Pelosi swore me in. And then you look up and you go, what the heck is House Resolution 2342? So unlike most of the who get elected the first time, they go to Harvard and they get a class on this and they get accustomed to it. You're thrown into it right away. That's part of it. I think the thing that struck me first that I had to learn is maybe a lesson for today.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Repeal of Don't Ask, yeah, and we went out to the congressional cemetery. Laid flowers at the grave of an American soldier who received medals for his bravery in Vietnam. It was later kicked out. Because he was gay.”
2018-08-27 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 265 — Rep. Mike Quigley · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source