will hold off to going after the u.s. tankers. and you heard president trump said he thinks iran is in big trouble. the president s remarks seem measured, but exerts say a lot depends on the health and safety of the crew member. u.s. central command has aircraft in the strait of hormuz right now monitoring and in contact with u.s. ships in the area. martha: bernie sanders campaign staffers want him to put his money where his mouth is. they are being paid less than what he wants to play everybody else. raise the minimum rage to a living wage an hour.
candid and not honest about attempts to suppress the votes of latino voters in the united states and that s what this is about. but at the end of the day, if the president exerts executive privilege and we don t get to the bottom of that, then what. we got to go to the courts. at the end of the day we keep saying at the end of the day. this has been a very long day since the beginning of 800-and-some days. it s clear that the administration through this stonewalling that the three of us have talked about on air a bunch of times, there s been an unprecedented level of stonewalling as the administration has indicated that they don t regard congress as a legitimate investigative bottom. you got to go to the courts to arbitrate or mediauate these disputes that are going on between the administration and congress. they re not going to turn over documents or comply with subpoenas, so you have to go to that third party before we reach the full crisis points.
fascinating. you know, somebody at the white house to look at that quote and say huh, it s working. it s working. and i think to some extent the public had made up its mind from the moment that barr put out the summary. even before the day that the mueller report came out, chuck, look what happened on that day. barr spoke an hour and a half before the report was made public and before those exerts were released. so, i think it s hard to put the tooth paste back into the tube. the white house knows it. the president s attorneys know it. and they re making the case the attorney general said it s time to move on so we can. to your point, what would this have looked like if mueller had spoken first. it s not just the president. i want to emphasize that legal writers and scholars as esteemed in our circles as john is in stories. many have said the mueller report is exactly what a special counsel should not do which is their job, preachreach a conclu. and as a result judge
we re back with our team of exerts. the democrats appear to be split on this whole issue whether to begin impeachment against the president. you have been speaking with a lot of democrats. what are you hearing? we heard people saying we re getting closer. i think we re there. nancy pelosi, i m told, feels no pressure. she s not there yet. i spoke to a very senior democrat who said to me impeachment would be political suicide. it would be giving donald trump a gift we can t go there. unless something clear. something convincing. nancy pelosi controls that place. i would not underestimate her keeping the discipline together. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, strongly disagrees. listen to this.
to prevent members of congress and the intelligence committee and other individuals from being able to ascertain whether that information should be distributed or not, that s not satisfactory. so does that mean executive privilege? because if the white house exerts executive privilege, what s your recourse? are you going to sue for mueller s reports? are you going to push congress to sue for it? i think we re going to look at that option. you also have to remember there s three investigations going on right now. we ve got the mueller report and we expect that out very soon. and you also have what s going on in the southern district of new york and the eastern district of virginia. and those two cases also have bearing on what has transpired before the campaign, during the campaign and during the presidency all need to come to fruition. we need to see all three of those full investigations to ascertain exactly what s going on. congressman, i want to ask you about the state departm