to the un. tonight with the context, victoria coates a former advisor to the us energy secretary and long term trump staffer and anand menon, director of the thinktank uk in the changing europe. hello. welcome to the programme. it is a crucial night for the january 6th committee. this will be their eighth hearing, maybe the final televised hearing before the report is pubished in the autumn. and this is the point at which the committee mustjoin the dots for their prime time audience. through seven previous hearings, the committee has laid out a case, that the former president was at the center of witnesses, including former trump and white house officials have testified the president knew he had lost but continued to pressure state officials, lawmakers and thejustice department to overturn the result in his favour. and when it failed, when vice president pence refused to help him, he called on the mob. we fight like hell, and if you don t fight like hell, you re not going to
conspiracy. they engaged in a meeting of the minds to have rudy giuliani go to ukraine and obtain foreign interference in the united states election to benefit donald trump. let me just ask you, i started this trying to dumb the story down, i think there s fatigue. how could mueller have investigated ties to russia, found 150 ties, 10 criminal acts of obstruction of justice after southern district of new york found criminal campaign finance violations. how do we stand at the precipice of another potentially criminal impeachable act by this president? nicole, hey, i m not so into the fatigue narrative. i think that s a self fulfilling prophesy. if this is important, a constitutional matter, we should talk about it and i think members of congress will. what would you advise joe biden to do, he didn t engage today. was that a mistake? i think he should stay low. i don t think he needs to engage. i think if he wants to point something out, it is that the
issue for hillary if she runs in 2016. then of course you had the washington freebie continue. they reported on the papers of diane blair, an old clinton confidant. on tuesday, fox news aired an interview with kathleen will, who back in 1998, alleged that bill clinton had sexually assaulted her. the conservative media complex s intent appears to be to knock hillary clinton and feed the clinton fatigue narrative. but this bash bill effort could have a short-term impact on 2014, potentially aimed at hurting red state democrats who all are looking to bill clinton to come out and campaign for them. while bill clinton s favorable numbers are above 60% in all of the states having senate contests this year, reviving these scandals perhaps is an attempt to remind conservatives what they didn t like about clinton in the first place. drudging up bill clinton s past has never hurt hillary clinton. if anything, anytime it s been done, it s galvanized support for her. but it doesn t help bill.