and bring whatever people who might be involved no justice. that s safety of the community is what they re worried about. you look at this and have concerns about the waves of people affected. abs loutly. starting with the victims who were killed. obviously and tvictims wounded. and then you have all the families. they ll be traumatized by this. people sometimes don t focus on the impact of the this has on especially the first responders. and law enforcement. and emergency services that type of thing. and then their faemilies as wel. this has a ripple effect. there are amazing amount of highly trained highly professional law enforcement and emergency services professionals who are trained and
i m looking forward to michael cohen s testimony. i want him to testify to show the american people that i have nothing to hide. there was no collusion. there was no wrong doing. nothing happened. michael cohen, you re free to testify and tell everything because us know in the end i will be exonerated. isn t that what an innocent person does? no? wrong? ab sloutly. i think what s so jarring about this is this is the kind of thing that nixon said in the privacy of the oval office and that was recorded. and it was like an earthquake. the president was talking like ts head of a criminal enterprise. what was difficult for us to wrap our mind around is the president does it on twitter. so in a sense, it s like, how
we don t know if the congressman is going to do that. but it s certainly on o the table. as far as whether or not this can be considered witness tampering f you ask legal experts, most of them have already said this does fit within the statutory definition of witness tampering. senator mark warrner said this s very serious. a senior fellow at the brookings institute said this is ab sloutly considered witness tampering as did the husband of george conway in a tweet yesterday. he sent out the u.s. code that would be a reference to what is considered witness tampering or obstruction of justice. so they do think they have engaged in activities that could be considered either witness tampering or obstruction of justice in some form.
oral argument and voting on the cases. so she s still going to vote. she s still going to be a part of the supreme court s decisions. she just won t be a part of the justices conference when they initially discuss and vote on the cases. but she s voting and will be deciding. it s extremely good news. we know how important it was for her to have kept up her record of 25 years never missing a day just by two previous cancer surgeries and experiences in separate cases. but at least this means no further treatment and she s in good shape and on a road to recovery. i don t know if you get a long winter nap ever. it doesn t seem so. presumably, rather than rushing back she wants to be sure that she recovers fully. because she wants to stay on the court as long as she can so why rush it. ab sloutly. pete williams, thank you so much. 800,000 federal employees officially missed their first paycheck today. day 21 of the government shutdown about to become the longest in history.
before the supreme court who said he s not going to take that job. what about any other changes? not that i know of, but it s interesting the president s tweet says the special council was appointed to find crimes. the special counsel was appointed to investigate possible meddling and if anything resulted from that to file charges. so you may think that s the same, but precision and these issues matters. this is the first time that the word impeeach was used by some of the republicans as well. ab sloutly. it s been a word tossed around by democrats for some time now. that was a very, very strong statement from jeff flake. i mean, he s telling the president, look, this is actually what could be on the table. ann and pete williams, thank