in this impeachment hearing today where we impeach presidents for treason or bribery or other high crimes where is the impeachable offense in that college are either of you here to assert there was an impeachable offense in that call? cricket started chirping. there is silence. eventually taylor says i m not here to make a determination, that is your job but that is the bottom line question. it is not even the hearsay stuff, whether they heard this or whatever. it is, is it impeachable and can you get the american public to put pressure on republicans especially in the senate if the house moves forward with impeachment. shannon: there are questions, if it is about policy differences, if that is the crux of this as some suggest then how can we stop any president from being impeached because there will always be people in the bureaucracy who don t agree with what they are doing. a new opinion peace talks about this, will impeachment be the new normal of american politics asking it
assert there was an impeachable offense and that call? shannon: and that s where the crickets are chirping. the cricket start tripping and their silence and eventually taylor comes through the microphone and says, i m not here to make a determination, that s your job. but that is the bottom line question. it s not that hearsay stuff or where they heard this or whatever, it s really, is it impeachable? and can you get the american public to put pressure on republicans especially in the senate if thou s moves forward with impeachment? shannon: because there are questions now about whether it will be about policy differences, if that s the crux of this as some suggests. there will always be people within the infrastructure and the bureaucracy who don t agree with what they are doing. the new york post opinion piece talks about this, impeachment will be the new normal of american politics asking, it would be a quantum leap in partisan antagonism. in the past americans it regarded i
take it away. it s good to see everybody. you ve touched on a couple of things and i guess the bottom line question is you ve got a hard core 38%, 40% of the republican base that s not going to move off of trump no matter what. but you represent some of you represent or are from areas that are going to be critically important for republican success next year. pennsylvania, florida, for example. how do you go about how does the party go about translating this to hold that in place as the facts of this thing comes more to the table and people really begin to see that there may be more there than people believe right now? does the strategy reflect this effort to kind of hold it together? or are the republicans right now sort of saying, look, longer term this could be a real problem for us not only in keeping the white house but holding the senate and maybe even try to get back the house? well, michael, and i think that s why the swing district members in both parties are the
all thought the time frame, he continued to inject his own editorial comments, and we had very serious questions. my point behind the confirmation is that this selection of the chief of staff was extraordinary and had never been done before in the history of the united states, to provide a chief of staff to jump over the normal vacancy route, which started with the deputy attorney general, associate attorney general, the position that rod rossenstein had, and others who had had confirmation, and my point at that particular question was here we are with an individual, over the most powerful agency, america s law firm, and he had not been confirmed, nor had the administration followed a normal process. why was that was the bottom line question. so he has potentially another week to go, if bill barr is indeed confirmed. so with the information that you
at right now. jim warren, think about where you re from, chicago o hare, one of the busiest airports in the world. tower is fully staffed. everything is landing and taking off safely tonight because of federal employees working without a dime in compensation. and at least i should say parent theoretically, at least they know they re going to ultimately get papered. gene mentioned before we got on, the private contractors, the men and women cleaning a lot of building, dusty government buildings in d.c. and alaska and elsewhere who are screwed. food services. deliveries. they ll never get that money. they re probably not going to get paid, but as long as there is not actual inconvenience to folks, like the crazy illinois budget mess, chicago budget mess, it s not until the garbage doesn t get picked up that folks it won t be until then that they vent. nevertheless, bottom line question, is he crashing? how many times have we thought that on many days? we were talking before d