CNN’s
John King and his
Inside Politics panel got a taste of that on Tuesday when electrical problems plunged their show into darkness.
King had Yahoo! News’
Brittany Shepard and The Daily Beast’s
Jackie Kucinich on with him to discuss how the Justice Department might deal with the legal developments surrounding the ongoing investigations into former President
Donald Trump. As Kucinich spoke about the Biden administration’s interest in staying on message, she suddenly turned into a silhouette, and so did King.
“We have a little power issue here in the bureau. As you can see, I’ve gone into the dark,” King said. He quickly threw to commercials as he told viewers the studio would look into what was going on.
mcconnell nancy pelosi shouldn t ever send them over. no trial held with impartiality by the united states senate. interesting thought. a strategy of nancy pelosi s to highlight the way mitch mcconnell does thing and runs the senate and put a spotlight on it for the world to really pay attention to. but yet it s a risk for the democrats. brittany, i want to bring you in to talk about that. what are the risks for the democrats with the strategy of holding on to the articles? gigi, it s important to recognize the pressures that these it democrats are feeling. i want first republicans. donald trump jr. posted 30-odd risky offices essentially members of the house who. voted on a very narrow marge ton call them and give them pain for either voted yes or present on impeachment. and early polling from october, november and honestly before the actual vote. with that disclaimer in mind, so really vulnerable states. battleground states like nevada,
he s not doing too well here, gigi, in terms of the pompolls. the last credible poll at 7%. the way it corks, you know, what happens in iowa will matter to what happens in new hampshire. then momentum could be built up come into nevada. he set up a formidable infrastructure here. he has dozens of staffers. he s got very smart people who understand the state and so he s ready to take advantage. right now, though, he is well behind biden, warren and sanders but i think she in the right position to take advantage as you mentioned. he just left the state. he was meeting with minority voters, which has been a weakness for him here and everywhere. brittany, he really has had a weakness with african-americans. latino voters. do you think he can bridge that gap? can he win those communities over? certainly it will be difficult. not saying that anything anything is possible. we saw what happened in the last
why this keep is close hold? don t let those who don t need to know know about that suggesting there was perhaps something more there that was politically damaging or a concern. certainly the issue of ukraine has blown up in ways that many of those officials when those emails were written probably could never have imagined. here we are impeachment behind us, a senate trial in front of us and could this be the evidence senators would like to see flushed out during a senate trial? gigi? the question of timing around this could be significant. kelly o donnell from west palm beach, thanks. bring in our panel. former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor joyce vance. politico reporter covering the white house daniel litman. yahoo! news political correspondent brittany shepard and former republican congressman from florida and msnbc political analyst david jolly. thank you all for joining us to talk about this. a lot to unpack here. joyce starting with you. these emails about ukraine were
litigated and heard by the court. denying the president his day in court withholding from the senate. okay, chairman graham. we understand that. let s wait for the courts to fully litigate whether or not these people have to testify, mulvaney and others, and upon hearing the ruling of the court, then the house will determine whether or not to refer the articles over. in other words, we ll wait, lindsey graham. the house can wait. mcconnell, schumer, pelosi, a lot to hammer out after the holidays. thank you for explaining this to us and breaking it down. joyce vance, daniel litman and david jolly. brittany shepard is staying with us to talk more. coming up, we turn our attention to the 2020 race. road warrior ali vitali spoke exclusively with amy klobuchar on a major bus tour in iowa, and we ll have that for you, next. .