president would deny congress the power to investigate him. here s the president s reaction. i think it s totally the wrong decision by obviously an obama appointed judge. the trump legal team plans to appeal. all this putting the spotlight on democrats disagreements about impeachment. at a meeting, congressman steve cohen asked nancy pelosi why she doesn t support impeachment. she told him one thing will lead to another. but the party is clearly not on the same page. we have a responsibility at some point to open an inquiry if this kind of obstruction and interference and stone walling of the entire investigation continues. can t go from 0 to 60. why would we open an impeachment inquiry if we re winning? in the court system as it relates to conducting our constitutionally anchored oversight responsibility.
discover confidential communications of four respected lawyers defies logic, well established law and common sense. it is pushing democrats to a tougher position. you can watch it happen in realtime. here is congressman david cicilline, who s a member of the democratic leadership, just a little while ago. now they re making this really broad claim that essentially says the president and his team are immune from ever coming before congress. that s legally incorrect and certainly a court will ultimately have to decide that. but i think let me be clear, if don mcgahn doesn t testify, it is time to open an impeachment inquiry. let me make sure i heard you correctly there. if mcgahn does not show up tomorrow before your committee, you say it is time for democrats to begin an impeachment proceeding? an impeachment inquiry, absolutely. we are really left with no other choice.
read the report and come to a conclusion reached by a former 1,000 prosecutors who also read it, that the president of united states obstructed justice and violated his oath of office. for more on amash s call for impeachment, i m joined by a resident scholar from the american enterprise institute, author of one nation after trump. norm, the reaction here is notable to me. you can make the argument that amash has been an independent thinker, broken with the party in the past. the reaction from kevin mccarthy and the president on down is they seem pretty freaked out by it. no question they re freaked out and trying to portray him as some kind of kook and not one of them. and it s right, chris, that he has been an outlier in a lot of ways. he first came across my radar screen right after he came to congress. he would cast votes, including some that were present instead of aye or nay and then go on facebook and other social media
ago that he was not going to fire bob mueller. denying a sprawl event that you described to special counsel mueller under penalty of felony. in other words, under penalty of perjury. he goes on to say in asking you to make public comments about these events, the president has not only further waived any possible privilege with regard to your testimony, he has also created substantial concerns about acts of witness intimidation and further obstruction of congress s ongoing investigations. and back with us are congressman jim himes and jill wine-banks. congressman, i know you re not a member of nadler s judiciary committee. but this situation with don mcgahn aches all the committees, the investigation committee you re on where you released the michael cohen testimony today. i want to first get your reaction to chairman nadler s letter and then we ll talk a little bit about michael cohen s testimony. right.
the adjective bipartisan calls for impeachment now exist in the world and cannot be unrung. correct. that he is a solitary figure is a sad commentary on the republicans. but it does say that this is no longer purely a partisan affair. and moreover, i think what he did, laying out the step-by-step analysis for why there is obstruction of justice is the most effective thing any member of congress has done to explain this to the american people. why the house democrats have been so incapable of breaking this down, i don t know, with charts or, you know, short phrases, i don t know. but he was able to do it in a thread on twitter. and for the life of me, i can t understand why they find it so difficult to tell the story, which is what they re really attempting to do by calling mcgahn, by calling barr and others. kurt, this is such an obvious