way that i would never be caught dead describing the president of the united states. let s drop this map, guys. these four states basically saying they re going to cancel their gop primary. kansas, south carolina, mark sanford s state, nevada and arizona. matt welch, this is not out of the ordinary to have it is and it is not. go. so you will have there are ten states in 2004 that in the republican primaries that didn t get held. but we haven t seen this type of top-down organization. the trump organization has been pressuring the state gops to do this. south carolina and nevada, that s third and fourth in the primary. mark sanford is in from south carolina. those are important early primary states, and that is under direct pressure from the trump administration because they have no confidence in themselves. they re showing a total insecurity that we didn t see for example by barack obama or bill clinton in 96 and 20 2we68. so they are this is the first time we ve seen t
with impeachment proceedings, despite the fact she feels the president is guilty of many of the things he is accused of by the house judiciary committee, she still doesn t support moving forward with it. yeah, yeah. really? nothing to say? that s going to be her problem, ultimately. that s going to be her cross toe bear, because the base of the party is leaving this barn without her. and if she wants to be the person standing at the end of animal house saying nothing to see here. all is well, she can be that person. she is put her finger up. do you think that s the message she is trying to send, nothing to see here, all is well? that s not necessarily the message i m hearing from nancy pelosi. go ahead. but i don t think that pelosi wants to get out in front of this, but the party has left the barn. i think her calculation is wrong. i think she is using the clinton model. i think it s closer to the nixon model. the thing about clinton, the country watched that and said back
properties illegally profited from government business. also today, three house committees announcing they are now investigating reports trump and his lawyer rudy giuliani pressured ukraine s government to assist trump s reelection campaign. all of this as congress returns to work in d.c. after a summer of a growing chorus of pro-impeachment democrats. watch this. i feel we can no longer wait. i feel compelled to call for an impeachment inquiry against president trump. i do not come to this decision lightly. the american people deserve the truth. a majority of house democrats are now on record publicly supporting an impeachment inquiry into president donald trump. that brings the number of house lawmakers backing impeachment to 135. all right. joining me now, executive editor of above the law and contributor at the nation. brittney cooper, professor at rutgers and nick confessore, political reporter for the new york times.
out of office because he had an affair, right? there wasn t a lot of actual political sort of impetus behind that. so it seemed like a clear calculated move on the republican side. where as here, everyone, even republicans are looking at this president and going it s a train wreck. it s a train wreck. we need to be saved from it. trump s support is not going up. his base has stayed the same so part of what the party has to do, the democratic party is energize its voters. pelosi keeps using a sort of old political model. it s wonderful when she can do it in terms of keeping him from giving a state of the union address, but i actually think she is not in line with where the party is moving. so brittney is talking about energizing the voter, energizing the democratic base. but what about the argument about wanting to protect certain people that could help win this election come 2020, making certain they don t alienate certain voters come 2020. it s a good argument. first of all, the b
it s important to remember turnberry is a money losing golf course. the president needs as much help as he can get to keep that afloat. the other issue that gets raised here are the wheels of the federal government and taxpayer dollars being used to prop up a private business controlled by the president. he trump is just whetting his beak. that s how corruption works. it s there is not a secret envelope with a stack of cash in it, right. he is taking something that kind of already happens and okay, do it a lot more because i ll make more money that way. it s shady. it s wrong. is it illegal? no. but again, that s a problem with our laws, and that s a problem that we can fix if congress not easily. congress i mean, it s in the constitution. the emoluments clause. but could argue that this is not a violation of the emoluments clause. the argument can be made for or against the emoluments clause. the emolument s klaus exists to make sure no one can bribe the president of