to the 2020 election. coming up, what it tells us and what it could mean for donald trump. and at this hour, a message from residents of east palestine, ohio, to federal, state, and local officials. do your jobs because we are scared and we re worried. just a short time ago, the head of the epa arrived at the site of that toxic train derailment, but he shouldn t expect a warm welcome after residents spent hours last night laying into officials who insist the air and water are safe, despite growing reports of people getting sick. we ve got the latest on that and the notable know shows at the town hall meeting coming up. plus, after multiple days of letting his officials do the talking, president biden is finally expected to address those unprecedented shootdowns of objects in the sky, perhaps as early as today. why has it taken so long, and no matter what he says, will it be too little, too late for his critics? we start with the growing outrage in ohio. concerns escalat
Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Important meeting because i never even heard that. As far as you know, this is all of it. This is everything. This is everything. All right. So who do you believe . Joining me now to break this down, former state Department Senior adviser. Paul butler, Professor Of Law at georgetown law school. Former fbi agent. Clint watts author of messing with the enemy. David k johnson and former watergate prosecutor. Wow, we just have an embarrassment of riches. Im going to go Around The Horn and talk about. Im going to start with you paul. Just on how this changes the legal case. Trump tower meeting. June 3. Donald trump jr. Gets email from Rob Goldstone saying moscow supports his fathers candidacy. He responded if its what you say it is, i love it. Trump junior and goldstone finalize a date. Same day trump teases this major speech. June 8 russian intelligence
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do more. what can you tell us about congress s interest in this and involvement in this? well, they re very interested, chris, and it s not just these senators that are directly impacted in ohio. you re seeing senators come from different states to get involved in this because there is the real threat that if some of these toxic chemicals get into the waterways, there s no telling how far they could spread across the country. you re also hearing from john fetterman and bob casey in pennsylvania, ore senators as well who have made direct contact with the epa to basically say we re keeping an eye on this. we want you to continue to engage with us, tell us what you know and when we know it so we can then let our constituents know and then also, if there s something that congress needs to do to help prevent this from getting any worse. there s no doubt that the members of congress are very engaged on this front. they want to make sure if there s a role they can play, they can do it and d
protecting the president than acting, then what can the candidates be doing. we know there were three people targeted. let s put up the list of democratic senators who are the most vulnerable. these are the ten democrats elected in states where donald trump won. claire, joe donnelley of indiana. north dakota, joe mansion of west virginia, bob casey in pennsylvania, which is a state trump is fixated on. montana, wisconsin, ohio, florida. would you advise any democratic who believes they have been the target of the same kind of fishing campaigns that were done to hillary clinton to come out with it. emmanuel macron style. yes, they should. the only thing the candidates can do at this point, donald trump not going to have their back at all. he doesn t have the country s back and doesn t have the democrat s back. he thinking russia is going to help democrats. the thing about that tweet as
can conservative voters rally around someone and something bold, bigger message? and i don t know this is big and bold enough with the challenges we face as a country, but i do think it s something that will energize conservative voters. claire mccaskill in missouri obviously doesn t want anybody talking about this, bob casey in pennsylvania, but even john kerry in massachusetts saying let s work a deal. this reminds me, carter had the majority of born again voters in 1976. he lost them when the irs started going after private christian schools. catholics went for obama four years ago. this could drive catholics back into the republican fold where they were in 1984. i think there s another element, by the way. how about this waiting period of august 13. doesn t this remind you of keystone, as well? there was an attempt to neutralize these decisions and we ll make some of the really harder questions well said. your guest this sunday on