this whole thing is truly become a circus, as you ve heard many times today. i have confidence. polling will continue to go in the direction against impeachment and good reason for that. before christmas, we ll probably have house floor vote, tonight you are supposed to have a committee vote and then what? do you work on friday? could you get this done on friday? they re saying, the rumor on the hill, we might be voting on the floor on thursday, wednesday or thursday. who knows, this whole thing has been a rush job, it is part of the problem with substantative claims. one claim is the president abused his power and obstructed justice. there is no obstruction of justice when the president delays or denies subpoena from congress, it happens all the time. it happened in the obama administration and virtually every administration in the modern era. there is remedy. party issuing subpoena is supposed to go to court and let the third branch of government
this whole thing is truly become a circus, as you ve heard many times today. i have some confidence. i think the polling will continue to go in the direction against impeachment and good reason for that. brian: before christmas, we ll probably have house floor vote, tonight you are supposed to have a committee vote, and then what? do you work on friday? could you get this done on friday? they re saying, the rumor on the hill right now is that we might be voting on the floor on thursday, wednesday or thursday. who knows, this whole thing has been a rush job, it is part of the problem with substantive claims. one of their claims is the president abused his power and obstructed justice. there is no obstruction of justice when the president delays or denies a subpoena from congress, it happens all the time. it happened in the obama administration and virtually every administration in the modern era. there is remedy for that. party issuing subpoena is supposed to go to court and let the
team took the opposite approach. if they vetted doral before rolling it out as a summit site, and the constitution is specific, and even leaving aside the legal issues and the fact that the president now walked back this decision, the security impact is already there. foreign officials are aware the president announced this as part of a rush job and his priority was on his pocketbook and not on vetting a site to make sure there were appropriate security arrangements at the site. the president was more focused on, again, lining his pocketbook rather than lining the security as is that corre aspect of the summit. the fact that the president is so focused on his finances,
this is a very careful path to navigate. yeah. i mean, just play out the calendar a little bit here. first of all, you have the new calls for impeachment but there s nothing that anybody can really do about it right now in washington because they re going to be on recess for the rest of the summer. really till the end of august. first of all, you come up with that. then if something were to begin say in september or october, the way democrats talk about potentially having an impeachment proceeding, they re sort of two historical models, two recent models for this, what republicans did with bill clinton back in 1998 and 99, that was an express impeachment. they started it around thanksgiving time. 1998, they finished basically two months later. maybe ten weeks total. so that was they kind of did a rush job and democrats said if they do anything on donald trump they don t have that model in mind. what they have in mind is what you saw back with watergate 1973, 1974. a much more exte
of some vetting notes from the trump transition team, documents with a red flag after red flag detailing swamp-like ties and background checks, cozy relationships with lobbyists and even domestic violence allegations, missed or ignored and a rush job to fill administration vacancies as one editor put it not only were many since scandalized problems foreseeable, they were foreseen and as cnn tom foreman reports the president regrets one hire but not for the reason you think. reporter: a republican document accusing a possible homeland security boss of taking donations from a group linked to white supremacy and also from the republican national committee an environmental protection chief plagued by allegations of coziness with big energy companies. and an agriculture secretary with serious conflicts of interest. all those damning assessments not all proven true show how a