kennedy of louisiana. they should have jon voight, maybe james woods at the next cpac, give a little acting forum. inside the actor s studio. you mean john kennedy, the john kerry supporter? yes. and now he s like senator hokum from oxford? yes. to your larger point was i i think there was one in there. i heard one. he s going to crystallize things. to the larger point, of course we heard the hang mike pence chants on january 6th. there was a gallows built outside, perhaps symbolic, but the point was taken. and for him to kiss that off and say, we don t see eye to eye, we have a difference of opinion about what happened on january 6th. and immediately turn away to defending donald trump and attacking democrats and by the way it tells you everything what you need to know about where the
hallway just seconds before some of the rioters reached there. his life was in danger, and yet he is choosing here to dismiss it and play up his relationship with donald trump to the day. mike pence had a heart procedure a few months ago and didn t tell donald trump ahead of time. trump learned about it through media calls. that was the reason for their first phone call. pence now saying they re speaking often. but it s clear the grip trump still has on the party who needs a job that bad? and even those who clearly have reason to break away from him refuse to stay. who needs a job that way? who needs the approval of any political party that badly? who? who? i don t want understand. apparently mike pence. and a lot of other republicans. i think what s important here, too, is this is all coming at a time when donald trump is getting back out there, soon to do these campaign-style rallies. corey lewandowski, his former campaign manager was doing an interview i think yesterda
to answer questions about the russia investigation and trump s efforts to obstruct it. trump blocked the committee s subpoena, but last month, a federal court reached a deal for him to testify. however, mcgahn can only be asked about his involvement related to the mueller investigation. michael schmidt, wlar we going to learn today? the thing is, i don t think we ll learn a lot. and if there was ever a better example of the difficulties that house democrats had in sort of publicly prosecuting the case against trump, today is a great example. here we are, all of this time removed from the mueller investigation, having a witness come up to testify about the things that are in the document and that witness is not going to be testifying publicly, he s going to testify privately. so the idea of galvanizing the
and obviously, we would all like to hear from don mcgahn about what happened with donald trump and how donald trump tried to use him obstruct the mueller investigation, but i don t think today will be that day. michael schmidt, you re an important guy, obviously. your phone records were seized by the federal government as part of a leak administration. if somebody tried to seize my phone records, you would see calls to krispy kreme, gun shops, offtrack betting. but apparently, the trump administration thought that they could seize your phone records without you knowing anything about it. first of all, let me ask you, how does that make you feel? and secondly, what concerns do you have? it s not sort of, it is chilling that our federal government, from time to time, feels like they can seize reporters phone records. so the so we i found
have to go through before you subpoena the records of a journalist. what should not happen is the president wakes up one days and gets mad at the new york times or the washington post because there s a leak that embarrasses him and says, let s get these guys. that should not happen, whether it s richard nixon or donald trump, or anybody else. if you re in government, if there s a dangerous leak that s come out, obviously, the federal government has reason in the intel community have a reason to want to get to the bottom of it who inside their administration is leaking national security secrets to the media. but you re on the other side of that eequake, and you have a right to try to get that information from the government. how do we balance it? well, look, the way it has