his life in a truncated fashiony suffice to say if you were an automaker in the state of michigan, part of the middle-class life and the good economy you enjoyed, you could thank johnen dingell for. 60 years in the house. had a hand in medicare, clean air act, clean water act, endangered species, civil rights act. a revered name throughout most of the state during his time in power. debbie dingell, his wife, succeeded him in the house.in this is what she wrote on twitter back to the president after he told that story tonight. mr. president, let s set politics aside. my husband earned all his accolades after a lifetime of service. i m preparing for the first holiday season without the man i love. you brought me down in a way you can never imagine and your hurtful words just made my healing much harder. annie, what is it we ve witnessed?ha are our politics this many days from christmas about to get more cruel?
next, i don t think debbie dingell s tweet will be the end of a fight with the dingells. this is just the kind of personal slap fight that he loves to keep going in. yeah, perhaps it just seemed like a disgraceful low point tonight on this night of all is nights. peter baker, annie karni, jeremy bash, after a long day our thanks for coming here and te helping us out. coming up for us, the president s fate now moves over to the senate chamber in some form or fashion. there may tonight, as we ve been saying, be a holdup in getting the case over there. we ll talk some more about this. and later, a pulitzer prize-winning historian who writes about impeachment and political courage is here to help with perspective on what it is we have just witnessed as the 11th hour is just getting started on an historic wednesday night. i don t have time for pretreating. what even is this?
and we mentioned trum was onstage tonighted at his rally n battle creek, michigan as he was being impeached.re the event was angry and raw and included a disgraceful retelling of the death of john dingell. john dingell represented michigan in the house of representatives from 1955 to 2015, just under 60 years in all. that s a record for congress. as any president would, trump approved military honors for dingell s funeral, who as a world war ii veteran is buried at arlington. trump talked about it in terms of a favor he did for dingell s widow, now congresswoman debbie dingell, democrat of michigan. you have this dingell. dingell. you know dingell from michigan? [ crowd booing ] you know dingell? debbie dingell. d that s a real beauty.in so she calls me up like eight months ago. her husband was ill a long time.
well, we saw a really personal attack and from the president at the rally tonight basically said he lowered the flags for john dingell and he couldn t believe that debbie r dingell would vote for impeachment given that he had done such a great honor for her husband and that maybe he was, you know, looking up rather than looking down. this fell flat in an audience i michigan. and it was clear that the president is not always so aware of the politics of the places where he s going and the audience he s speaking in front of to think that this was a good joke for this audience. it wasn t. but this president doesn t shy away from a personal fight even when it s unseemly. i can see this going in the direction that it did with attacking john mccain even after his death. that went multiple rounds. trump just kept doubling and tripling down. i don t think that if history if trump s behavior in the past is any sign of what he ll do