goi joining me is the chairman of the american bridge 21 century and michael steel who is a former senior policy adviser for governor jeb bush presidential campaign and a former press secretary for the speaker of the house, john boehner. let me go to you michael, first. you as a republican, we ve not seen any republicans indicate yet in the house that they are moving forward impeachment. is this not a very serious kind of situation when you have a cia operative, a cia person that has become a whistle-blower that has laid out a series of events that we re told has been verified that would have the president of the united states asking a president of another nation, in this case, ukraine, to do him a
we will never find the truth unless we use the power given to the house of representatives, and the house alone, to begin an official investigation as dictated by the constitution. harris: your reaction? i think he said it very well. he is someone who loves our country. our responsibility is to follow the rule of law. we got to protect our constitution. after protect our national security. use the facts. harris: if you don t agree them going forward impeachment, are you saying those people or those senators would not love the country? i think we should not be divided in following the rule of the law. we need is the facts. if this was not a threat, as the inspector general said, then just give us the facts so we know it s not. but the facts we have now, this is an inspector general appointed by this administratio
she s already raised $265,000, so it s a serious primary, and he is afraid of getting hit on his left. so i think nadler will be looking for any opportunity, any kernel of new information to allow to open an investigation. joe crowly let me bring you back in. you say this is a process you think should just continue and see what emerges from it, but realistically, you know the calendar there as well as anybody else, a recess that s going to take as soon as this hearing is over folks aren t going to be back until labor day. you re going to have a presidential campaign pretty much in full swing by the fall. when do democrats have to decide either yes we re going forward impeachment wise or no, we re going to let the 2020 m ka paca be the decision. i do think the public sentiment is a favorite saying of nancy pelosi, she s taken that from abraham lincoln.
consiste constituents in york county which is a suburban area up on the peninsula here in virginia beach and at one point did this question come up and i ll tell you that was with the senior retirement community. it was a question that came up in passing, so what s going on with what we re hearing about impeachment. not a lot of people here in coastal virginia are weighing in specifically on, you know, how they feel. like the action that i think we need to take is that, you know, we need to get to the bottom of the facts and the truth is is that the underlying information that was used to create the report we haven t seen it as congress and the public hasn t seen it. moving forward impeachment could be divisive to our country and we need to be sensitive in that. if we move in that direction it needs to be with the facts available to the public. when i was speaking to the retirement community i said, i wasn t alive when watergate