we re talking about the constitution, a duty that s bigger than your own self interest. i tell you what we re going to do. we re going to do a fair and thorough inquiry of what the heck happened and what s right. the politics will have to take care of themselves. we have the sound cued up from president trump explaining or attempting to explain what we ve been talking about here. congressman, here he is. just so you understand, it s the single greatest witch hunt in american history, probably in history, but in american history. it s a disgraceful thing. the letter was a great letter, meaning that the letter revealing the call that was done at the insistence of myself and other people that read it. it was a friendly letter. there was no pressure. the way you had that built up, that call, it was going to be the call from hell. it turned out to be a nothing call other than a lot of people said i never knew you could be
anyone in the bahamas, anyone live income florida, with people who have not been confirmed by the u.s. senate? the reason senate confirmation exists is so that senators can sort of feel around the resume and make sure they re qualified before a disaster hits. it s not the way it s supposed to be. it s not the way this has been planned for. it becomes a big issue if things go wrong in the response and if the hurricane does a lot of damage in florida. right now that s all sort of cued up in case it becomes sort of a piece of political rhetoric to use in case this goes south. but, look, it s an ongoing vulnerability. the preponderance of acting people in the government and, look, when things go wrong, it s an easy thing to point to. point to as possible cause. jill colvin, thank you for spending time with us, we re grateful. thank you for having me. after the break, an abrupt
and then incredibly, mitch mcconnell has said that if they are in control in 2019, there s no question, instead of trying to roll back some of the tax breaks for the folks at the top, they ll be targeting social security and medicare earned benefits. i m glad you raised that, senator. we have those comments from mitch mcconnell cued up. i want to let our viewers take a look at those. it s driven by the three big entitlement programs that are very popular. meds care, social security and medicaid. that s 70% of what we spend every year. there s been a reluctant to tackle that because of the popularity of those programs. hopefully we ll get serious about this. we haven t been yet. those comments have been seized on by many democrats, including joe manchin who has been trying to warn voters. do you think those comments there and the effect of them is
republicans were in control in 2019, they would put on the chopping block medicare and social security. their earned benefits. the reason they re doing it is their tax bill has produced such big deficits. so the republicans are dealing with a one-two punch. the first was pre-existing conditions. they want to go back to the days when health care was for the healthy and wealthy. that s what you have if you allow discrimination against those with pre-existing conditions which the trump people are trying to do in federal court. and then incredibly, mitch mcconnell has said that if they are in control in 2019, there s no question, instead of trying to roll back some of the tax breaks for the folks at the top, they ll be targeting social security and medicare earned benefits. i m glad you raised that, senator. we have those comments from mitch mcconnell cued up. i want to let our viewers take a look at those. it s driven by the three big
couple of clips and, ben, why don t we get those cued up. a couple clips they re incredible. showing rod rosenstein going in there and not being asked questions, basically being shouted at by unhinged members of the house republican party who are not carrying themselves the same way republicans in the united states senate are. the chairman of the judiciary in the senate has said that there s an investigation going on on whether vladimir putin try to influence our election in 2016 and still is in 2018. you have chairman burr from north carolina who has been working very well with the ranking member from virginia and they re doing it the way you re supposed to conduct bipartisan investigations, trying to get to the bottom of what donald