frustration is not limited solely to her. all right, doug, if you were chuck schumer and you were trying to get to 51 votes, how do you then capitalize on these comments from murkowski? symbolically they mean something because what we ve seen in the house is total obedience from everyone, from the intelligence committee on to the full house. so you didn t hear many republicans at all breaking you know, saying anything bad about trump. but when you have lisa murkowski, and i would expect you may see someone like mitt romney as well, both of them aren t up for re-election in 2020 raising these cautionary flags. i think what you use for schumer is this is a rationale to have a fair, honest, and open trial where there can be witnesses called that, you know, that weren t allowed to be called by the administration in the house. i would think that the president would want his chief of staff and others who had first-hand knowledge to be able to
up and threw me into the ocean, and that was the end of the conversation. and you re here. resilient. he is telegraphing to democrats what the talking points are going to be, which, theoretically, gives democrats an opportunity to prepare and go on offense. but how do you go on offense with these talking points? exactly. nothing is new. this is all the same stuff we ve seen from trump. but what i think it reveals is that his campaign, he s not going to run a persuasion campaign. he s going to run a base campaign. that s what his entire administration is about right now and that s what his entire campaign is about. it s about firing up his base and turning out as many white working class males as he possibly can and noncollege educated white voters as he possibly can, and not even worrying about trying to persuade. that s what they re doing. they are spending a ton of money on digital strategy, and they re
it is a matter of fact that the president is an ongoing threat to our national security and the integrity of our elections, the basis of our democracy. we cannot rely on the next election as a remedy for presidential misconduct when the president threatens the very integrity of that election. president trump s wrongdoing and the urgent threat that his actions present to our next election and our democracy leaves us no principled alternative but to support these articles of impeachment. we are on the precipice of the 2020 election and congress has ultimate responsibility to protect the sacred equalizer, our right to vote. the foundation of the democrats impeachment argument is that the president s use of a
being hand and glove with the defense. and it seems the holiday wasn t enough to distract trump from the impeachment process. look at his twitter account. the president is evidently consumed by it along with the democrats leading the charge. case in point, after a brief merry christmas tweet early yesterday morning, trump spent the rest of the day attacking nancy pelosi and his other political opponents, a trend that continued today, but it s more than just analyzing the president s mood on twitter. as greg miller of washington post writes, quote, the fallout of the impeachment battle extends far beyond trump s political survival in a senate trial. tensions have fed trump s belief that he is surrounded by disloyal subordinates and has fuelled animosity toward the supposed deep state. the idea that they can serve people of either party, a bedrock principle of the country s approach to foreign
well, impeachment has gripped the nation and grabbed the front pages recently. donald trump and his administration have continued to push sweeping new immigration policies. just as the house voted to impeach the washington post out with a story, the trump s top immigration adviser stephen miller wanted to plant i.c.e. agents within the agency that cares for unaccompanied children to get information from their parents and relatives to target them for deportation. the washington post reports those senior officials at the department of health and human services rejected the attempt, they agreed to allow immigration and customs enforcement agents to collect fingerprints and other biometric information from adults seeking to claim.