Desire to tell the world what a lot of hooey he thought this whole watergate business was. If you Start Talking about the facts, if you start pleading the facts, you cant much intendment against the president except for taking the worst possible construction on everything that happens. The more you analyze it, the more youre going to find out how weak this case is on the facts. The thing to remember is were not accusing the president because of his general moral character or whether he is moral or amoral or what his general character or person may be, weve got to find evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor. If we try to impeach him for anything less, then were not doing our duty. Time of the gentleman has expired. Congressman david dennis. He stuck by president nixon until very nearly the end of he was a passionate advocate for nixon. He was up on of 11 republicans on the judiciary who voted against itch peopling nixon in july of 1974. But then, then the smoking gun tape emerged. It w
But it may not be a blue wave but certainly a new wave with all the republican retirement and democrat gains, its one of the biggest freshman class that congress has ever seen. You have young activists like cortez and veterans like the m crenshaw who inspired us all to that gracious response to that snl life attack on him and many new members who have never worked in politics before. Could it lead to more bipartisan action so congress could get things done for you or will it be obstruction and gridlock all the way . Here to discuss, lisa booth and mr. Figaro and him and bruce. What fun to have all of you together, all one show. Im so excited. Lets start with lisa on what we can expect next year. You know the d. C. Scene very well. Its not very one thing or another, its always a balance but id like you to put a percentage on it. What percentage of what happened you think will be constructive work that help the American People versus obstruction and effort to take down President Trump. Y
And this is his new reality now. The the shadow of more legal battles, more congressional supervision and congress has no incentive to give am single political win right now. Well come to thursday. Our team is here covering all of this on what is going to be a historic day in the nations capitol. Joining me for it. Nbc capitol Hill Reporter kasie hunt. Nbcs Kristen Welker at the white house. I appreciate you being here. Nancy pelosi spoke with our own Savannah Guthrie on the today show. She will be facing donald trump he will be facing her. She talked about what that dynamic will be like. Listen. Do you think he deals with you differently because youre a woman . I have no idea. Well see now how he will deal with the speaker of the house and that doesnt matter whether are you a woman or not. You said in august you thought he might be afraid of you and the women coming in. I dont know if he knows how to deal with women in power and women with strength, but well see. Lets hope for the bes
Troops and praising their efforts in the fight against isis. The other reason im here today is to personally thank you and every Service Member throughout the region for the near elimination of the isis territorial caliphate in iraq and in syria. I looked at a map and two years ago, it was a lot of red all over the map. Now you have a couple little spots and thats happening very quickly. Dana the president adding that he has no plans to pull troops out of iraq and says no country can be used as a staging area to strike islamic state. This comes after President Trump announced hes withdrawing troops out of syria, depending the move saying a lot of people are going to come around to my way of thinking. We shall see if that happens. Its kind of fun for the troops, right . Very moving experience to see the commander in chief. They looked like they appreciated it. In your experience in the bush administration, how far in advance to they have to plan these things . Dana a lot. Tom it was in
Desire to tell the world what a lot of hooey he thought this whole watergate business was. If you Start Talking about the facts, if you start pleading the facts, you cant much intendment against the president except for taking the worst possible construction on everything that happens. The more you analyze it, the more youre going to find out how weak this case is on the facts. The thing to remember is were not accusing the president because of his general moral character or whether he is moral or amoral or what his general character or person may be, weve got to find evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor. If we try to impeach him for anything less, then were not doing our duty. Time of the gentleman has expired. Congressman david dennis. He stuck by president nixon until very nearly the end of he was a passionate advocate for nixon. He was up on of 11 republicans on the judiciary who voted against itch peopling nixon in july of 1974. But then, then the smoking gun tape emerged. It w