because these investigations are ongoing and we ll have a result at some point and we ll figure out what s going on. and they re not interfering with that. the fbi s looking into it and two bipartisan congressional committees are looking into it. so this notion that our republic is collapsing i think is just hair on fire nonsense. ellis. let me toss a couple more logs on to your fire here, if i might, brian. listen. the fact that we have a president now who is seemingly with the support of republican party in general inal terribly opposed to any kind of independent investigation on this, ought to give us further reason for concern. right? we ve got the two congressional committees doing it. one in the senate, one in the house, whose role is to put it kindly, quite constrained. right? then we have an fbi investigation whose boss is removed over this very topic. when are we going to get a real investigation that will help us make a decision about whether there really is some kind of
i agree with everything allan said. it is time to move to impeachment. we have to get to the bottom of this russian meddling in our election. otherwise, we don t have a democracy. we have to hold this country, department of justice, the white house, to standards we ve lived by since our independence. there is no choice. and if it is impeachment, let s go there. ellis, what s your response to that? premature? is now the time or is this ridiculous talk? well, we re not there yet. i mean i think allan, has penned some arguments on that. it is interesting to hear his passion on it. but listen, ryan, there is a way that republicans can sidetrack this stuff which is to be open to reasonable things. right? to have a fair investigation. to denounce the times when the president really does seem to not understand the basic tenets of our constitutional system. and all of our republican friends understand, i think, that there really has been some kind of disturbing line crossing
is scheduled for thursday. according to politico, mr. boehner might postpone the elections for majority leader and whip. this means the party would only vote for the speaker position on thursday. this weekend, snl cast member tyran gave his best donald trump interpretation. i get in there, taxes go down, everyone gets a job, salaries go way up, we build a wall it s huge over in china, they re going to say now dat s a wall. that s your dish of scrambled politics. ellis henniken thanks for being with us. that s a a wall, huge! today is a huge day. it is. the today show savannah guthrie is moderating a town hall discussion with hillary clinton.