and all these people to give subpoenas. so it s really the fight club situation where donald trump has sent the summer telling democrats i want you to hit me as hard as you. and all he has accomplished is hitting his own self in the mouth. let s not mince words, ellie. brittany, give me your take. we heard people during this recess okay, i m going to go home. i m going to go home to my state, talk to my constituents and figure out what they feel about this impeachment proceeding and then i m going to tell you whether or not i m going to november pour ward on that. ellie is making the statement they did just that and here we are come september and they re moving forward. taking the next step. look, i think that s right. i think my biggest concern is whether we can get to 218. whether these congress folks who are in battleground states who are red state democrats, what that s going to mean in terms of how they will vote. because the one thing that we can t risk here is if we re going
we will accept anyone on humanitarian reasons that needs to come here. we will process them expeditedly. moments ago, president trump said the u.s. needed to be quote very careful with who was actually allowed in. but we have to be very careful. everybody needs totally proper documentation. because the, look, the bahamas had some tremendous problems with people going to the bahamas that weren t supposed to be there. i don t want to allow people that weren t supposed to be in the bahamas to come in to the united states, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers. all right. msn msnbc ali velshi is in the bahamas. there has been complete loss there, generational. reporter: yeah. generations of people wiped
of history. that s why i m doing this. do you think that is part of this calculus here with these democrats moving forward? right now this is an awkward time for the democrats. their base and their members think the case is already closed on impeachment, that there is enough evidence and facts and examples to impeach the president. but the leadership doesn t want it, and the public at large is not quite convinced it s merited. so i think what s happening here in substance, this move speeds up the process. it creates a framework and a process. it allows to spread the work of the committee among subcommittees, spread witnesses around, bring staff in the discussion. so there is a way to move forward more quickly. and i think that they hope that the politics will take care of itself. let s talk pelosi here, though. because as we are having this conversation, ellie, nancy pelosi still very much speaker of the house, still very much does not support moving forward
ellie, i m going to start with you. whoo! it s happening. it s happening. i didn t even get a chance to ask a question, and you re already launching into it. go ahead. i understand the people say the democrats never do anything. let s ignore the fact the democrats relate to the party and embrace the fact they showed up at all. what we re seeing is the direct result of the people out there who pigeon hole their congressman, who called, who demanded accountability, and now they ve come back to work and they re starting to do something. the other person that you really have to give a lot of credit for today is donald trump himself, because his idiot strategy of completely unprecedented level of obstruction in terms of not allowing, not accepting the power of the house oversight committee, it is what has forced congress hand. they re doing this not so much for the public. they re doing this for the courts. they re doing this because only under, only clothed in the power of impeachme
tim, on this one. adding to trump s bottom line here with the stays at turnberry. it s not only that they re adding to his bottom line, because they re clearly doing that, it s that members of the federal government, whether the attorney general, the vice president, or the air force are consciously it would appear going out of their way to patronize trump properties. and at a minimum by lining the president s wallet either at doonbeg golf course, the washington hotel, or turnberry in scotland, they re showing that these institutions that are meant to be in place and be independent are essentially kowtowing to court favor with the president. that s just at a basic level. the larger issue that emerges here are financial conflicts of interest that have dogged trump since he was inaugurated, since he began campaigning, and the possibility of corruption. is there pay to play in any of this. and i think the unfortunate thing in all of it is in some of these instances, it appears that peopl