pseudo-scholarly, pseudo-judicial form. but it s full of what lawyers would call co con clues sear allegations that you are not allowed to make in a legal complaint. he used you called it general badness. he accuses trump of attacking the bedrock of american democracy. well, you know, that s the that s kind of fancy writing. but whats to that actually mean? there is not a there is no bedrock of american democracy. it s not down there by the fence in el paso and you take a pick ax to it. you can t actually litigate that you can revial this president. you can loathe this president. tucker: right. robert mueller has been investigating him for two years and has come up empty except for papadopoulos lying about a cocktail he had with the australian high commissioner to the united kingdom in a bar in london. that s after two years of this rubbish. tucker: s with t. was a
the idea of impeachment, democrats have brought it up, a handful of times so far about president trump. they haven t pulled the trigger and a lot of them are not inclined to. my next guest thinks the time has come for democrats to take up that fight for real. we have the senior editor of the atlantic here with me. you have a new piece out today. i want to read part of it, here. it says trump s bipartisan critics are not merely arguing that he has lied or dishonored the presidency. the most serious allegations against him ultimately rest on the charge that he is attacking the bedrock of american democracy. that was the situation. impeachment was deviced to address. impeachment is a process not an outcome. you call it for a procedure for investigating the president.
to demand that the president of the united states say something, that the administration would say something about not just the disappearance and possible murder of someone who was living in the united states but also a journalist. freedom is like the bedrock of american democracy. freedom of the press is essential. journalists are the only people journalism is the only profession protected in the constitution. we are a beacon for other nations around the world because of freedom of the press. the governed willing to be held accountable the governing willing to be held accountable by the people through the press. and the fact that a journalist, an opinion writer for a major american newspaper has gone missing and possibly murdered and there is relative silence from the president of the united states and the administration is chilling.
fulfilling its solemn duty in this case. and jonathan, this is the washington post story. this is one of the people who works has a relationship with your newspaper, an opinion writer for your newspaper. what has the post been able to do? the post has been able to at least as an institution raise hell in all quarters where we can raise hell. whether it to the administration, the saudis, the turks, anyone who will listen. because and this is normally a thing where the washington post would have a receptive ear at the state department and at the white house. right. and in fact, you wouldn t have to demand that the president of the united states say something, that the administration would say something about not just the disappearance and possible murder of someone who was living in the united states but also a journalist. freedom is like the bedrock of
conversation. lauren, go ahead. i guess i don t understand what you think i m missing. do you not think that donald trump should take the potential of russian interference and the bedrock of american democracy seriously? i think he does take it seriously and i think the point is here his statement outright undermined the assessment. no, it does not undermine the assessment. what it did was it said that the false pretense that russia s hack was deliberately done to sway the election is absolutely false. you don t know why russia was hacking and also when russia he dismissed the cia s ability to make the statement. he said she is are the same people that accused saddam hussein i don t know if you re familiar with that statement. i m very familiar with that first off and second off i think what you need to understand is the context of what this conversation was about and what donald trump was saying about this hack is everyone that puts out there the information that t