Their job. Youve got to talk to them. By the way, ive got to say, you know, i wish i had been around in the summer of 67 when sergeant pepper came out because im such a huge fan but i hear it was just you saw it and it just cut through popular culture. Its kind of like a tweet yesterday that matt miller did. Okay. Matt, that was a splendid tweet. Can i just say that was a splendid tweet about her fbi friends. Its built into the whole beginning of the show. Countless. She has countless fbi friends. Yeah. I have lots of fbi friends. One of the countless fbi agents Sarah Huckabee sanders talks to, matt miller says, really the sergeant pepper tweet of 2018, should have warned her it was stupid to blame the porter scandal on the fbi the day before the director testifies in public. So, matt, well get to that in just a moment after we introduce you, but the point is you dont know that matt is here, by the way. Sarah sanders blames the White House Personnel Security Office. Just remember, that
Between our executive branch and our Legislation Branch is headed. Democratic lawmakers grapple with the best course of action with handling Robert Muellers compelling report which outline evidence of where the president might have obstructed evidence. The white house is in attack mode against those congressional investigations into any wrong doing. The president , asserted to the Washington Post that complying with congressional requests for information and testimony was unnecessary saying there is no reason to go any further and especially in congress where its very partisan. Obviously, very partisan mr. President , its the congress of the United States of america. Its by definition, partisan. The white house lawyers plan to tell attorneys for the administration witnesses called by the house that they will be asserting executive privilege over their testimony. A message made pretty clear this morning by the president s counselor and then the president himself. Is he going to exert ex
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President , kim strassel, and columnist and manhattan senior fellow jason riley, what do you expect to happen in this trial . Well, what we are going to have is the an Opening Statement where people put forth outlines for and against and questions about votes, youll also have the house impeachment managers going first and presenting evidence that they collected if the course of this investigation trying to convince senators that it is enough to go forward with conviction and in theory that would be by the president s defense. Paul is there a possibility that youll hear from impeachment managers and if the Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell says you know what, i think we have enough votes to acquit here right now that they could hold a vote after that those original arguments . This is something more and more republicans are thinking about. You know there, had been a thought of having emotion to dismiss up front but it was clear that a lot of republicans werent willing to go there. Paul ri