meeting with president trump but he s tweeting, not responding to text messages but he s tweeting there will be more damaging information that comes out based on his travels in ukraine, andrea. and kimberly atkins, already our hill team has come back with three front line democrats from tough districts who are saying they are going to vote for impeachment, three who are among those that are being whipped by kevin mccarthy and the republicans who are trying to peel off some democrats who are trying to weak een nancy pelosi hand and the democrats hand. that was the one variable still outstanding, that you have we were talking tom o halloran, potentially eight or nine. right, as many as eight or nine or at least a handful of democrats, the thought was they would not vote in favor of these impeachment articles when they come up next week. we already saw two democrats
was bad, meaning he should determine if it is bad or not, and really it is a bright line rule and congress should pass a law that would mandate they disclose any contacts. that would take the discretion out of it. but this is very much in line with his view of law enforcement. he thinks he knows better than law enforcement and that tends to make a very lawless administration. what is interesting, you bring up what congress should do here but the majority leader mitch mcconnell shown unwillingness to take up any bills addressing election interference, according to reporting from manu raju and our hill team, on top of that he was asked about the president s comments and he said he sort of pivoted to democrats and said this is the democrats picking on him. what is going on with mitch mcconnell? what is his strategy here? yeah, i mean, obviously mcconnell is trying to tamp down a controversy, the president clearly expects his lawmakers on the hill to do that. but the reality is repub
bipartisan. i don t think impeachment is the right way to go. it s very hard to obstruct justice when there was no underlying crime to obstruct. having obstructed justice, is now obstructing congress. welcome back to kasie dc. democrats ran in the midterms with the straight forward message. elect us to congress and we will hold this president accountable. now at least 14 democratic-led house committees are investigating different aspects of donald trump or his presidency. the nbc news hill team reports that there are at least 50 different investigations, and at least 15 congressional subpoenas. and yet so far democrats have little to show for it, with multiple offices and agencies of the trump administration saying flat-out no. when they are saying unless you have a legislative purpose, you cannot ask any questions. you cannot investigate unless you have a legislative purpose. but one of the purposes of that the constitution spells out
yeah, and it s difficult to see how you get to two-thirds, but that would be better septembsent for our hill team. when you look at the number of senate republicans, they hinted they would be opposed. you might get a majority of the two-thirds vote. the two-thirds you only need that because of 1983 supreme court decision on this emergencies act. whether or not there can be two-thirds in both chambers, that is going to be a difficult, difficult challenge. hans nichols, thanks. always good to see you, my friend. an exciting interview with nasa administrator jim bride enstein. talking about climate change, humans on mars and. first to celebrate black history month, they are rocking black women providing leadership to launched in 2017 to bring more diversity to the fashion industry. last year daniel and a team of black female designers created a
the president is going to sign this and avoid another government shutdown. now, part of that has to be, as we reported earlier today, that the white house officials have been calling some of the president east allies in the media, including on fox news, trying to tell them that this was a win for the president and framing things that they believe are positive aspects of this bill for president trump, including the over $1 billion for fencing on the southern border. but we ve seen some of those conservative figures with a lot of backlash against this bill, saying that the president should not sign this and they do not think that it s a good idea. and those white house aides have been worried that the president will be listening to that media coverage and he will respond to that. and that s why they re no longer going as far as to say, behind the scenes, that they believe the sipresident will sign this bill. of course, nothing is final until the white house says so. but as our hill team