very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o
my baseline answer would be, yes, if only because congressional subpoenas are broadly, broadly authorized under the law. and the standard is as long as it s anything that congress could potentially make legislation about, and that s why you see in jim jordan s letter he lays out those foundations and their fear behind it as ewell we need to think about whether we need to enact laws to protect a president and lay out that foundation, then that s going to signal to a court reviewing it, well, it sounds like this is within congress purview because it s so broad. anything you might have legislation on, that could be virtually anything danny, i want to pick up on what andrew was saying in that clip, which is we know where pomeranz stands intellectually on this case he thinks it doesn t go far
up and ask a question. so important. russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. haven t made a phone call to russia in years. don t speak to people from russia. not that i wouldn t. i just have nobody to speak to. i poke to putin twice he called me on the election. i told you this. and he called me on the inauguration. a few days ago. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge no person that i deal with does. so that answer still exists as a baseline answer, julie. and with that in mind do you think the email story this week is the most momentous thus far in the story line? i think it is. and i think that s not just because of the fact that the meeting happened. i think that if you look at this story line over the last several months so many stories revealed that are based in solid reporting have been hinged on aanonymous sources people that the people can t for practical reasons know who the people are.
the election. how many times do i have to yeah i know you have to get up and ask a question. so important. russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. haven t made a phone call to russia in years. don t speak to people from russia. not that i wouldn t. i just have nobody to speak to. i poke to putin twice he called me on the election. i told you this. and he called me on the inauguration. a few days ago. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge no person that i deal with does. so that answer still exists as a baseline answer, julie. and with that in mind do you think the email story this week is the most momentous thus far in the story line? i think it is. and i think that s not just because of the fact that the meeting happened. i think that if you look at this story line over the last several months so many stories revealed that are based in solid
i told you this. and he called me on the inauguration. a few days ago. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge no person that i deal with does. so that answer still exists as a baseline answer, julie. and with that in mind do you think the email story this week is the most momentous thus far in the story line? i think it is. and i think that s not just because of the fact that the meeting happened. i think that if you look at this story line over the last several months so many stories revealed that are based in solid reporting have been hinged on aanonymous sources people that the people can t for practical reasons know who the people are. it s been based on situation that is may look suspicious but in the end could be just coincidences. in this case we re talking about a meeting we know happened. and we know it happened because