hook. . reporter: speaker pelosi we have these great chairman here who know so much. i m going to start asking them questions if you. even after these hearings, the president said he s completely exonerated. please, come on, come on. let me just say this. you give me the opportunity to say this and then i invite my chairmen to close. we want to have the strongest possible case to make a decision as to what path we will go down, and that is not endless in terms of time or endless in terms of the information that we want. but if it comes to a point where the cone of silence and the obstruction of justice and the cover-up in the white house prevents us from getting that information, that will not prevent us from going forward, in fact, it s even more grounds to go forward. my colleagues? i just want to the echo that. you know, said something that is in the dna of my brain
what we saw today was a very strong manifestation, in fact some would even say indictment of this administration s cone of silence in their cover-up. my position has always been whatever decision we made in that regard would have to be done with our strongest possible hand, and we still have some outstanding matters in the courts. it s about the congress, the constitution, and the courts. and we are fighting the president in the courts. if we have a case for impeachment, that s the place we will have to go. i m back with yamiche, betsy and david. we only have three minutes left. i want to start with yamiche. we know where the speaker stands. she is against the full indictment against the president. the next democratic candidate for president, however will, have this all in their quiver, in their arsenal. what do you think they will use or should do, whether it s a woman or man? we know who the usual suspects are right now, who is probably
nadler just mentioned. it isn t endless but strengthening our hand to get that information, remembering that in watergate was when they got the information and the tapes that broke the case. those just about changing public opinion, that helped change public opinion. but it s not about me. our caucus is about our country. as i say, there s a cone of silence in the white house that is engaged in a massive cover-up in the obstruction of justice. those obstruction of justice charges as has been demonstrated today in the hearings are could be indictable offenses by anybody else, not the president of the united states abbott president when he s no longer president. but the american people i think if we go go down that path, we should go in the strongest possible way and that s all i m going to say about the subject. we have our distinguished chairs here. may i say something?
this we have these great chairmen here who know so much. please. i m going to start asking them questions. even after these hearings, the president said he s completely exonerated despite what mr. mueller said. what do these hearings really change? you give me the opportunity to say this and i invite my chairmen to close. we want to have the strongest possible case to make a decision as to what path we will go down. that is not endless in terms of time or endless in terms of the information that we want. but if it comes to a point where the cone of silence and the obstruction of justice and the cover-up in the white house prevents us from getting that information, that will not prevent us from going forward. in fact, it s even more grounds to go forward. my colleagues? i just want to echo that. you know, mueller said something
we won the case. his case was a beautiful statement on congress having oversight. just a remarkable decision, and now, of course, the administration is appealing it. but i thank you, too, mr. cummings, for your great leadership and where we re going next. because, as you know, the mueller investigation could not do the president s personal or business connections. and one of those connections could be to the russians, and that s what we want to find out. so as we go to questions, i just want to say that i think i do believe that what we saw today was a very strong manifestation, in fact, some would seen say indictment, of this administration s cone of silence in their cover-up. this is about the oath we take to protect and defend the constitution. but some of the actions that the