discuss all of the above. joining me, senior analyst and author of a book, really, the book on the impeachment process and a contributing editor for the atlantic and for the forward and the cnn national security analyst and served senior adviser to the national security adviser under president obama. welcome to all of you. michael before we get to the scram belong in the white house post-call, get to the news of the day on the fact that the white house is now looking for outside counsel over all of this. what does that suggest to you? that suggests that the white house is beginning to realize this is really serious. just now realizing that? sorry. well, i think they might have thought they could deflect it. impede it to some extent. now with the house preparing to more behind this than ever
constitution and doing exactly the opposite. they re frustrating the law which has to do with restricting, constraining what people interacting with foreign powers and foreign interests my do. then trying to put it in a place nobody can find it but them. clearly that s a cover-up. that could get them fired and also disciplined under ethical rules. so i would say that they re in very serious trouble. and because all of their conduct thus far seems to hide, to be directed at hiding this rather than in a sense calling the president on this or going to the superiors and getting them to agree that something should be done to essentially publicize it, what the white house counsel suggested and then perhaps own up to it. rather than to normalize it. okay. everyone, stand by. i have more for you. also we have breaking news. this afternoon, the possible expansion of this impeachment investigation. why a congressional attorney says this could include a lot more than that call with the
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barnhart, conducted by washington post, george mason university. throw out the numbers. 58%, majority of americans endorse opening of a house impeachment and 49% say the house should take a more significant step to impooch the president and ca pea -impeach the president and call for his removal. is that enough to break and speak up against the president, the republicans? i don t think so far it s enough. prab republicans are looking at primarily what republican voters think. staunchly divided, most republican voters are anteimpeachment and don t think trump did anything wrong, again, gets a lot of media information telling them that message. with the exception of a couple, that it would be enough to ratify impeachment yet. the movement could continue and
president to look into joe biden and his son. and after that concern was raised up the ladder, the lawyers put that transcript of the call into the code word server that we have reported on extensively. now, this only backs up what has been put out there in this whistle-blower complaint about nsc concerns, the lawyers putting it into the code word server. i m told by source there s were a couple reasons the lawyers did that. one, they wanted to make sure it didn t leak out because in the past, nsc people had raised concerns of leaks to the press. also an effort to preserve because they understood it could become an investigative matter. also interesting, brooke, we learned that shortly after the call officials began quizzing each other what should we do? y lert the department of justice here since bill barr, the attorney general was brought up repeatedly during the call? that also was part of the dynamic. now, doj had said that bill barr was not alerted early on.