counterpart and heads of other states without somebody stitching on him, and cuomo was gob smacked. he said i used to be on these phone calls, the president can say what he wants, if somebody doesn t like it, that person can quit, complain, but not file some whistle-blower complaints. and trump has been a target from day one. it wasn t after he got in the white house, before he got elected, the chair of the hillary clinton campaign and jump a still writes a post and obama should advise the electors first to brief them on russian interference before they certify the election for trump. crying out loud! invoke the 25th amendment, aoc said he should be impeached for emoluments clause, and represented of green says he should be impeached first anti-squad tweets. sean: you can t beat them. before the political question, matt schlapp?
that would have been incredible. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer would have been gob smacked and wouldn t know what to say or do. he would confound everybody if he actually seriously did his job. we re going to have to take a break here. joy reid s book is the man who sold america. joy and eugene, thank you both very much for starting us off tonight. appreciate it. when we come back, congressman jamie raskin is with us, a member of the house judiciary committee. he s going to join us on this important week when the house subpoenas are finally being enforced in court. and later, it was the secretary of the treasury s turn today to not tell the truth in a congressional hearing we will show you that video. we ll be joined by an expert on the laws that secretary mnuchin was misstating today. hmm. exactly.
saying he has committed essentially a crime or high crime. they said he s committing a cover-up. but no, no, it doesn t rise to the level of impeachment. i don t understand it. gene. just one other thing i think is being misremembered about the clinton impeachment is that the republican party did fine in the 2000 election. they won. after the clinton. they won. because the scarf impeachment was on him. once you stamp that scarlet i on a president he didn t too useful. gene, imagine the president walked into that room today with an infrastructure plan, with an infrastructure plan that was compromisable in ways that democratses would have trouble turning down. and at least and began what could have been weeks of donald trump appearing to do his job. what if he said that choice? that would have been incredible. nancy pelosi and chuck schumer would have been gob smacked and wouldn t know what to say or do.
back. even some on the right say the attack on legal abortion as gone too far. i think alabama has gone too. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the trump administration is continuing an assault on continuing congress s roles. a day after the personal lawyer told a gob smacked judge, congress shouldn t be able to investigate if the president engaged in corrupt behavior. a-electee letter was sent to jerry nadler not only refusing to turn over white house records, but more importantly claiming that congress has no standing to investigate trump at all. he wrote the committee is not a law enforcement agency thus the committee cannot justify inquiry by searching for possible evidence of false claims of obstruction of justice. more vaguely, it is launching an investigation into nonexistent threats against the rule of
good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the trump administration is continuing an assault on e continuing congress s roles. a day after the personal lawyere told a gob smacked judge, congress shouldn t be able to investigate if the president ul engaged in corrupt behavior. a lengthy letter was sent to jerry nadler not only refusing to turn over white house records, but more importantly claiming that congress has no standing to investigate trump at all. he wrote the committee is not a law enforcement agency thus thes committee cannot justify inquiry by searching for possible evidence of false claims of obstruction of justice. more vaguely, it is launching an investigation into nonexistent threats against the rule of is law. this ignores the constitutional role of congress and the congressional oversight manual that lists among the purposes al