Hes an honest, honorable person, unlike the white house which is defying congressional subpoenas. There is no legal reason for defying the subpoenas and i cant imagine that mr. Mueller would defy the law. Hes an honorable person. Lets dive in on this. Renata marin oughty is a senior atlanta and Gloria Borger is our cnn political analyst. And welcome to both of you. And what are the mueller options. I think mueller is going to testify and he didnt want to and hell be careful about what he will say and what questions he will answer. So i suspect what mueller will do is hes going to give very carefully worded answers that are drawn largely from his report and i think that is going to be enough for chairman nadler. One thing that it is worth noting is that when mueller made that Public Statement on television, he said nothing new. He repeated it is all in the report. Yeah. And yet it had a big impact. We saw almost an shift in how President Trump and allies treated mueller and talked about
The strait of hormuz on friday. One was released. One is still captured. Irans revolutionary guard claims the ship was seized for noncompliance with International Maritime laws. The president saying iran is nothing but trouble and taking a swipe at former president obama for agreeing to a shortterm deal with irans leaders. The ridiculous agreement made by president obama expires in a very short period of time. It was a shortterm agreement. When youre dealing in countries, you have to deal in 50 years and 100 years, you dont deal in the short term. That was a ridiculous agreement. Reporter u. S. Already has a large military presence in the persian gulf and very few oil tankers because of increased Energy Production here at a home. But germany and france responding as well to the seizures. The French Foreign minister calling it concerning and harmful to deescalation efforts in the region. President trump warning iran to change its behavior soon or things will get a whole lot worse. Griff
Crimes of misdemeanor. It starts with an investigation, hearing and the vote is taken. If the majority of the house agrees to resolution called articles of impeachment the president is technically impeached, something that has happened to two president s. Johnson and bill clinton. But, being impeached doesnt mean the president is immediately removed from office. Think of it as an indictment. What happens next is the trial. That takes place in the senate presided by chief justice of the supreme court. The house manages to make his case and the president has a legal team to make his. The senate votes and needs a two thirds majority to convict and remove the president from office. We will get to that later with senator blackburn, one of the hundred people on the street. Just to be clear there are currently 47 Senate Democrats that would take at least 20 republican votes to remove the president from office. Okay. Thats the official process. But what is all this really about . There is a mi
Perceptions of ukraine to the dismay of some of his advisers. Quoting now from the Washington Post, quote, over time, you just see a wearing down of defenses, a former white house official said, describing the struggle to contest the influence of giuliani, putin, and orban. And just pause a minute to consider the implications. The leader of the one country that no president before this one has fully trusted was telling this president not to trust ukraine, a country that russia seeks to dominate. Joining us now is john hudson, who shares a byline on the story. John, what exactly happened in these conversations between President Trump, putin, and orban . And i understand at least one of the conversations with orban was face to face in the white house, and there wasnt anyone else present. Is that right . Thats right. U. S. Officials described to the post an alarming sort of evolution in President Trumps view of zelensky and ukrainian officials in general. Now, it started out a little bit
It starts with an investigation, hearing and the vote is taken. If the majority of the house agrees to resolution called articles of impeachment the president is technically impeached, something that has happened to two president s. Johnson and bill clinton. But, being impeached doesnt mean the president is immediately removed from office. Think of it as an indictment. What happens next is the trial. That takes place in the senate presided by chief justice of the supreme court. The house manages to make his case and the president has a legal team to make his. The senate votes and needs a two thirds majority to convict and remove the president from office. We will get to that later with senator blackburn, one of the hundred people on the street. Just to be clear there are currently 47 Senate Democrats that would take at least 20 republican votes to remove the president from office. Okay. Thats the official process. But what is all this really about . There is a mile angelou quote my ang