beth fewy, susan del persio, and doug burns, a former federal prosecutor. doug, this is a lot of documents they re requesting, and it seems like what house democrats are looking for everything out there, basically to impeachment hearings without calling them impeachment hearings. yeah. it is very common even in regular criminal indications, forget oversight, for these broad sweerequests for document. and we all moan and then we interact with the government and we say can t we cut this down. i hope you can see your way clear to dropping the case.
if he order as u.s. attorney to drop a particular case with nothing more, it is not corruption, if there is a bribe, a offer for a job, something else, then it is. also there is the emolument s clause nap is an antibribery statute. the president of the united states being bribed by foreign powers. the last one is a look at abuse of power in general. they feel like he bullied the d.o.j. figures and it s not good for the president because as you say you have 81 people being subpoenaed and they re really very serious about this. beth, what do you think? is this them basically doing impeachment hearings without them doing that? i have to tell you i m very puzzled by the politics of
going to recuse myself. you put people in different positions and they leave people for a long time that should not be there, and all of a sudden they re trying to take you out with bull[ bleep ], okay? whose strategy will be the winning strategy here. you could say according to the way you laid it out, beth, that the democrats are on a fishing. you could accuse them of being on a fishing expedition. they re not as focused enough on the issue. the president is not focused enough on the issues, he is just talking about this investigation over and over again. watching fox news, he is obsessed with it. the white house will say look at all of the things we have gotten done in this world we re leaving in, what strategy will prevail, the way the president is trying to define all of the investigations. obviously where you stand is
this independent sort of very difficult constituency. it s not one monolithic group. so i think they will pivot towards ted cruz. there will be enough latinos to support ted cruz to take him over the top. the views of the three of you i think are indicative of the country. this will be an interesting night because everybody has something they re watching closely. samuel rodriguez, president of the spanish leadership conference and beth fewy and john ton capehart, opinion writer at the washington post and msnbc contributor. coming up a year after his corruption case ended in mistrial in new jersey, robert menendez is hoping to disprove the detractors who said he was digging his political grave. ho how is that sitting with voters today? a quick programming note, at 7:00 p.m. eastern watch special coverage of the midterms with my friend stephanie rule.
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