and, yes, the other side s going to weaponize everything. but you can t let that dictate your obligations to tell the public the truth and i think the administration does that, for the most part. and i think in this particular case, this is not that s just not that big of a concern. well, look, i will tell you. it s not that big of a concern but see. that s the thing. when you don t talk about it, now i get to talk about it the way i want to. and there is a little bit of truth. it is something. it is a possibility. and that s what keeps happening in this, is that gaps or messaging inconsistency now gets weaponized. and you turn what i keep using, you know, just because it s catchy. every time something like this happens, they get to weaponize it. by the way, andy slavitt, that s why i love having you on the show. that s why i thought it was so great for the administration they asked you to go in. you know what you are talking abo about.
and andrew johnson and how there are differences. the founders were always worried this would become a vote of no confidence, that every time members of congress didn t like a president that they would vote to impeach him because they didn t like his policies, and this is nothing like that. but you have to look at some of the ways this is different. you know, congressman schiff was talking this morning, chairman schiff about the fact that this is to some extent about the 2020 election. this is the first time a president will have been impeached who is running for re-election, also one in which national security is at the center of those things that people are worried about. and it s interesting, you talk about national security, which the founders were worried abo about. do you believe that the impeachment of bill clinton in 99, i know this is a heavy question to lay on you right now, cheapened impeachment and that the impeachment of donald
say something or hear something did exactly that because of that we were able to prevent a possible tragedy. the aboabout thwarted attack one week waft the high school smooth in santa clarita california deputies say they have received envision on a series of shootings, since then including details of a threat reported on thursday about a planned shooting at high school in the palmdale area southeast of santa clarita, a student detained after concerns surfaced about that threat. arthel: live in los angeles, thanks so much. eric. eric: a perfect storm of screwups what attorney general william barr is saying about death of jeffrey epstein inside a manhattan jail cell two officers on the job when he died, they are facing federal charges falsifies records conspiracy. we are live in new york city in newsroom with more on this
politics and have for 30 years. five years ago there be a consensus that you re not allowed to question this. so be insane. today there is that consensus. what happened? agreed. getting back to the case at ha hand. mckinnon is a male cyclist who won a championship in the women s cycling competition and manchester, england, and there are many feminists, women who are questioning the right of male athletes to compete in women s sports and this seems to be unacceptable for us to take this position, but we will continue to take this position that it s unacceptable for male s to compete. it s very important in this country for the purposes of maintaining title ix protections for women and girls which is something that my organization, the liberation front cares abo about. tucker: you are making a pretty straightforward reality based case and by doing so you
remain wide open. but we have with us the person, the one person, who can explain it all. former acting u.s. solicitor general and the man who helped craft the special counsel regulations, which gave us robert mueller, neal katyal, national treasure, himself. it s such a pleasure to have you. i want to ask you to get at something that you ve talked about in interviews on other networks, and on the daily podcasts and new york times that you you aboabout. what is the danger for donald trump if the mueller report is some concise report findings of his conduct that leaves us with more questions? yeah, so if the mueller report happened last year, which would be impossible just because these investigations take a long time, but let s pretend, i think it would have really helped trump because at that point, congress was basically his lapdog, not exercising any oversight responsibilities whatsoever except on, you know, his political enemies or things