Checkers and one of his 2020 rivals. President trump offers a bronx cheer to the latest democrat to declare for president , new york mayor bill de blasio says hes the progressive best prepared for the president s bluster. Good thing about new yorkers is they look the same whether they are really pissed off at you or whether they like it. Its a tough city. A few protesters. A little serenade. Back to 2020. We begin with the swiss president scheduled to be at the white house amid big warnings and debate over iran. The swiss often play middle man when the United States wants to get a message to iran or vice versa and this meeting comes after a week of white house warnings that iran appears to be up to something nefarious. Today the New York Times had a report that what so alarmed the National Security time overhead imagery showing fully as bald Iranian Missile and the concern what they would do with the missiles led team trump to move a Carrier Strike group and ramp out confrontational rh
Justin amash is the only republican in the house to call for the president s impeachment. A republican senator said its not time to talk impeachment on his side of capitol hill. My own view is that justin amash has reached a different conclusion than i have, i respect him. I believe that to make a case for obstruction of justice you just dont have the elements that are evidenced in this document. And i also believe that an impeachment call is not only something that relates to the law, but also considers practicality and politics. And the American People just arent there, and those that are considering impeachment have to look at the jury, which would be the senate. The senate is certainly not there either. Everyone reaches their own conclusion, as i read the report, i was troubled by it. Was very disappointing for a number of reasons. It did not suggest to me it was time to call for impeachment. The House Intelligence Committee chairman sees this call for impeachment only starting to
System of checks and balances, two three coequal branches of government, of check and balance on each other. Constitution spells out the duties of congress and one of them is oversight of the president of the United States. Another one of them is to impeach the president of the United States. So we have and let me be as brief as succinct as possible in this regard. We have six chairman. You heard from adam schiff this morning who is having a success with getting documents from the Justice Department by the actions the committee has taken. You have elijah cummings, chair of the Government Reform Committee who had a big success this week with one of his cases, the maser decision which spells out that it is Congress Responsibility and right to investigate the the other branches of he also has a good it is not our case but a case that falls in his domain, the emoluments case and that is the second committee. Third committee you have Financial Services, Maxine Waters is the chair. Maxine ha
Initial burst of claiming vindication and exoneration by that report and the attorney general characterizing the report in ways that couldnt be checked by anybody, but that whole era lasted, like, five seconds. Since then, they have bolted themselves down into an increasingly hardened effort to try to block access to mueller, himself, to block access to muellers findings, to block access to witnesses who testified to mueller, to block the production of documents that were used in muellers investigation or that pertained to his findings or to subject of his investigation, and to Block Congress from obtaining any information, any documents or access to any witnesses, that could help Congress Follow up on what mueller did. And, importantly, that could help Congress Follow up on what we now know mueller did not investigate. I mean, before the Trump Administration, it was pretty much a settled matter as to whether or not a white house and a president had to comply with court orders and subp
Perhaps he didnt go directly to the attorney general barr and tell him to do this. Keeping em honest, if thats the case and thats a big if, the president didnt really need to tell mr. Barr he wanted this done. Hes said so much already. Over and over and over and over. Even as far back as june as 2018, he was saying it or resaying it, sharing something said on his favorite news channel. Quote, with all the bias, lying, and hate by the investigators, people want the investigators investigated. People want the investigators investigated. So that was nearly a year ago. And what do you know . They are now investigating the investigators. Back on may 1st, mr. Barr testified on capitol hill that he intended to look into the origins of the russia investigation and the exchanges attorney general barr had with senator kamala harris, which raised eyebrows when it happened. Thats possibly coming into clearer view today. So keep everything i just said in mind as you watch that exchange. Attorney ge