four, few members of congress have read the report. under our constitution, the president shall be removed from office for conviction of treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. the context implies conduct that violates the public trust. contrary to barr s portrayal, mueller ever area reports reveals is president trump engaged in spec actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment. mueller s report satisfies all the elements of obstruction of justice and any person who is not the president of the united states would be indicted based on such evidence. impeachment which is a special form of indictment does not even require probable cause that a crime obstruction of justice, has been committed. it simply requires a finding that an official has engaged in careless abusive corrupt or
the president is suing to block elijah cummings subpoena of trump financial documents from an accounting firm that did several years of work for donald trump and trump businesses. the judge ruled the subpoena must be obeyed and the judge refused to grant a delay in the execution of his order because the judge said that donald trump s lawsuit does not present serious legal questions about the subpoena. the judge said this is not a serious case. president doesn t have a chance of prevailing. the president s private attorney arguing the case told the court last week that congress did not have a legitimate investigative reason for obtaining the trump financial documents, the judge traced the committee s interest in those documentses in detail beginning with who else, stormy daniels. the judge noted that the committee was seeking documents related to trump s reporting of debts and payments to his personal attorney michael cohen to silence women alleging
rebellion against nancy pelosi, who is against the move. this as a federal judge sided in a big way over financial records. the house intelligence committee released transcripts of michael cohen s closed door testimony. cohen claims jay sekulow asked him to falsely testify to congress about the trump tower project in moscow. sekulow denies the allegation. so much news. so many developments. let s begin with lauren fox live on capitol hill. lauren? reporter: well, john, in a couple of hours, an empty chair before the house judiciary committee, as this fight between congress and the executive branch over documents and witnesses heats up. the white house blocking former white house counsel don mcgahn from testifying in front of the judiciary committee today. the latest effort to stone wall investigations into the trump administration. mcgahn s lawyer telling
there is now one republican member of congress who is out in front of most prominent democratic politicians on whether the president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. republican congressman justin amash said he reached his conclusion by simply reading the publicly available mueller report, something he thinks a lot of people in congress haven t done. on the day now when the administration is once again fighting tooth and nail along a variety of different ways to block congressional inquiry, this time by directing former white house counsel don mcgahn to defy a subpoena, it calls into question whether more democrats will follow the republican lead in calling for congress to impeach donald trump. i m joined by jennifer rubin and kurt bardella, a former spokesperson for the republican house committee on oversight. jennifer, for all of what you can say about justin amash, it just strikes me as significant the adjective bipartisan calls
instances where the president tells people to lie, that should be a big deal to everybody. it s the president s attorney right now who is being accused of that. we don t know if the president was behind it. yeah. this is why we wanted to get all the underlying information so we could look at exactly what was said, how it was said. but of course if this turns out to be true, if there s other evidence that comes out that shows that the president actually directed jay sekulow to do this, then that would be a big problem. i think the reason you asked me earlier about don mcgahn, that s why this is so compelling. don mcgahn directly said the president told him to lie and he would not do it, and that is huge, i think. that s information that the american people need to see. all right, congresswoman, thank you for making time for me tonight. thank you, chris. if congress ultimately begins impeachment proceedings against president trump, today will be seen as a turning point, i think