level of sort of group control over a third of the american adult population that i don t think any president has ever had. that s what s different here. another difference is richard nixon does not know about the burglary, he didn t plan it. he did get involved immediately after it in the cover up but here donald trump is involved in the actual crime. he was on the phone with zelensky asking for a favor, he was directing rudy giuliani to go and ask for an announcement. he didn t care of bidens. he cared that it is announced because he wants to help russia and made it look like it was not russia that hacked the democratic campaign. he wanted to make it look like
states. and the senators really are rubber stamping that sort of thought process by saying we re swiftly going to move this. we re going to work to dismiss it. we are not impartial. we are going to listen to our leader. we have, in this country, a balance of power. our framers and founders and the writers of our constitution knew the dangers that could exist if there was no check on the executive power. yeah. and so you have a president who has clearly decided to obstruct congress with the approval of his party members. and i want to ask you a couple other things while i still have you here. we re also in this moment, and
well, when it comes to the trade deal, nancy pelosi said over and over again when it came to working people, we re not going anywhere without each other. that was very clear. and despite pressure for months and months and multi-million-dollar campaign pushing her to accept the president s version of the deal she said, no, we have to bring in enforcement because that s everything if you re talking about our workers, if you re talking about health care consumers and people concerned about the environment. so those were always her standards. i don t think this presidency is fixable. i don t really think that s the point. and i tell people all the time the norms are shattered. so we have to build new ones on the ashes of our own expectations and the morays donald trump has torched. what can we get done for the people? and that has always been the message that brought us, the house democratic majority in 2018 is getting something done for the people, particularly on the economy, health ca
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are chipping away from our democratic norms. you wrote a new op-ed that says the following. mitch mcconnell is in violation of his oath and scheming with the president to deny the country of the trial. we should not forget what it takes, an army of legislative staffs to investigate the corrupt president. that does feel kind of like it is sort of, that s something you may write at the end like olog ologioloologa eulogy. it is a eulogy for the republican party. i had a friendly argument with