the white house says mulvaney won t cooperate and if he doesn t, he won t be alone. former national security adviser john bolton was supposed to be deposed today but didn t show up. that doesn t mean he s refusing out right. the washington post reporting bolton doesn t want to comply with the democratic inquiry without a court ruling on the on going constitutional dispute between the trump administration and congress. here to talk about it, barrett burger, former assistant u.s. attorney with the eastern district of new york and southern district of new york. good to see you again. among the people that are invited to come or don t come, the john bolton thing seems to be a category to itself. what is the argument they are trying to make or waiting for from the courts? so it seems they set up this sort of strange condition, right? they said we re willing to come in if you give us the subpoena but we want to let it play out in the courts first. we want to see what the courts
address. john durham announcing this is now a criminal matter is a significant development. it means that there is a reasonable indication or suspicion that crimes have occurred. doesn t mean he s going to charge anyone but it does mean that he s going to panel a grand jury to compel testimony, subpoenas, and people, documents and people to come and address the origins of this russia investigation where a president was accused of treason, falsely accused of treason by a party that paid for a fake phony dossier and the democrats are now unhappy that john durham is looking at whether or not there was a proper predicate for it. i don t leave there was. maria: we should also point out that one of the people who accused the president of treason quite publicly was john brennan, the former cia director and john brennan s fingerprints seems to be all over the origins of the russia probe. the importance there again
more frustrated about the performance of his chief of staff. doesn t mean he s on the way out now but he s on thin ice. and our reporting from last week was that mulvaney was already in some hot water before, and there were some efforts to look for a replacement before that and that mulvaney wasn t necessarily happy in his job as well. and when the president watches television now, originally he wasn t upset about mulvaney. but then as he watched the reaction to it and he s a viewer, he s a tv viewer, he watched reaction and he got more and more agitated. and he s transactional. i should say, like the president, i m a averacio averacious consumer of news. only the situation room. stand by. after barking down on holding the g-7 summit at his florida golf resort, the president going out of his way to praise the place. will had help or hurt his brand.
visit to the cardiologist, he spoke to reporters a little bit and talked to us about how things can i certainly intend to be actively campaigning. i think we re going to change the nature of the campaign a bit, make sure that i have the strength to do what i have to do. i don t know if there s anybody who did more rallies than we have done. we re probably not going to do three or four rallies a day, do two or do other events as well. reporter: sanders pointed out that while he was going to scale things back that he was already moving at a pretty incredible pace, far exceeding what many of his democratic rivals were doing. he started to think that s not necessary and now in light of this scare with his health, it would make sense to dial things back a bit. that doesn t mean he s getting out of the race.
president doesn t mean he trump is not above the law. rob: a lot of people ask why the president hasn t asked his own inte intelligence agencies o take care of this, why are we asking ukraine and china to investigate joe biden. the president of the ukraine who won based on draining the swamp in the ukraine, he opened up the door to the conversation about draining the swamp in the ukraine. it wasn t actually president trump who brought up the corruption and the draining of the swamp, it was the president of ukraine and president zelensky. rob: i want to show you there s a number of democrats who have not supported impeachment or have not indicated that they support impeachment, if we pull up the graphic. there s about eight of them right there. kelly, if the transcript is all that we discover from this, if that transcript if we don t learn anything more from the second whistleblower, do you still think a impeachment is the right move here? a poll recently showed that