It is tuesday, may 21st. Along with joe, willie and me we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle, Jonathan Lemire, Washington Bureau chief and author of the mate tr matriarch, susan page and jeremy bash is with us well. We have a lot going on, including investigations into the Trump Presidency and attempts to hold the administration accountable. The white house has directed former counsel don mcgahn to defy a congressional subpoena to testify before the House Judiciary Committee this morning. In a letter to Committee Chairman jerry nadler, white House Counsel said the Justice Department has, quote, advised me that mr. Mcgahn is absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony with respect to matters occurring during his service as a Senior Adviser to the president. He went on to say the president has directed mr. Mcgahn not to appear at the committees scheduled hearing. A lawyer for mcgahn later said the former white House Counsel would, quote, respect the p
Himself began to flat out admit he discussed former Vice President joe biden on a phone call with the president of ukraine. As reporting gained steam into the exact details of the ukraine shakedown, we learned that the president ordered his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to hold back nearly 400 million in military aid to that country just days before the call in which trump pressured ukraines president to investigate biden and the business dealings of the former Vice President s son hunter. The president then spoke again directly to reporters where he said the quiet part pa again connecting it to corruption and then the corruption to joe biden. Now nancy pelosi had been resisting calls to impeach the president. On tuesday of that week, Speaker Pelosi announced plans to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against the president saying that freezing vital military aid to an ally was a betrayal of trumps oath of office. The next day, the white house decided to release the now infamous
The inquiry into President Trump. We know that secretary of state mike pompeo was listening in on that july phone call between President Trump and ukraines leader. I thought he didnt know about that . Thats not what he said. Attorney general william barr has been asking foreign officials to help discredit the Mueller Probe. We know Rudy Giuliani has been subpoenaed by the house to turn over documents related to his communications with the Trump Administration officials about ukraine. And we know President Trump is trying to find out the identity of the whistleblower who made thecomplaint. Somebody, joe, might want to explain to the president what the concept of the whistleblower is. You dont do that, but theres so many things that you dont do. And polls are showing that people, joe, maybe arent feeling so comfortable with these latest revelations. You know, theyre really not. Unfortunately, theyre not because the president yesterday showed, again, just how unmoored he is, not just emot
Well put it that way. It is so great have you back. Just a great summary, caddie, politics in the United States is in disarray, but politics in Great Britain is even worse. Amazing. So were still here. Yeah. Were still here. You know, also mika and i were talking about this, willie. You go through new Morning Consult, trump Approval Ratings, and it really shows how unpopular he is. And in some of these states that they they show how impeachment is really either keeping him from gaining momentum with all the all the money hes wasting, and its not moving anything. Ohio, hes minus five. Pennsylvania minus seven, under water. Iowa under water, minus 13. Minnesota under water, minus 13. And the biggest two for last. Wisconsin, minus 14. Michigan minus 14. That would explain his mood. It explains his mood, first of all. But secondly all of these clowns that have been going around saying that impeachments backfiring and this is hurting no, he can gain no momentum. Hes getting absolutely slaug
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