message, but it s in some ways, it s almost stronger coming from a man who just relies on the facts and what were the facts we heard yesterday? from a national security perspective alone, both the first session and the intel session had severe warnings for us. we heard about a cast of criminals around this president, a litany of liars that just kept lying during the investigation. why is that a national security issue? because russian and foreign powers as we heard in the second session like that resettivity. they want to feel welcome when they interfere with us. what i heard yesterday is this president and the people around him wouldn t even qualify for a background investigation in security clearance to work at the starbucks at fbi headquarters, yet, these people were running a campaign and running the country. that s what america should be focused on. one of the criticisms of the hearing and of, frankly, mueller
these sailors within 24 hours precisely because we had multiple channels of communications available between senior u.s. and iranian officials. in one instance, the secretary of state was able to pick up the phone and call his iranian counterpart, something that is almost completely unfathomable in the case of the trump administration. i think that underscores the precariousness of the situation we re in. there s provocation for the sake of provocation and no off-ramp because you don t have those ties between the trump administration and the iranian regime. iran s foreign minister sat down with lester earlier this week, as you both know. this is part of what he said. take a listen. the u.s. has added a lot of troops, bombers, air cast carrier into the region. do you think the u.s. is preing for war? i do not believe that president trump wants war, but i believe people around him wouldn t mind. ned, what do you make of that
saying i would vote for impeachment now really just h p helps the president. julian, playing devil s advocate if you re a candidate for president in 2020 wouldn t coming out in favor of impeachment energize your supporters or give you attention and headlines? it can give you attention and headlines and define you in terms of principle. you can take everything speaker pelosi has said and say the natural argument would be impeachment proceedings, not a vote. proceedings are necessary at this point and that would highlight who you are as a politician and shape the character people see when they go to the ballot box. it is an argument where you could imagine that a lot of democrats like senator warren say i don t have another choice other than to support this at
impeachment and the democratic caucus is not pushing hard. why do it? why do this if it s not going to give you a removal of a president? julian, do you think president trump recognizes that an attempted impeachment would galvanize his supporters and that s why he s goating pelosi? he thinks it might. it s hard to predict how this might play out. the other way to think about it is the house vote impeaching him wouldn t get him more support outside his base. his base is already energized. he can claim he has been exonerated and rally him that way. it s hard to know what the president is thinking. there s part of him that doesn t want to be impeached. in many ways the democrats need to think of this on its own terms, whether political or whether it s a presidential
some people taking otezla reported weight loss. your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. other side effects include upper respiratory tract infection and headache. tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if you re pregnant or planning to be. otezla. show more of you. bret: we love this time. do you? finally tonight, this week s notable quotables. we still want our community to remain vigilant as we always should. this is what we prepare for, and this is what we pray that we never have to do. we have got to take back extra drugs. they shouldn t be sitting in your medicine cabinet. facebook should have had a way of verifying everything and not being sloppy about it. although the intelligence is uniform, that no votes were changed, they weren t doing it for fun. i had a call with president putin. calling him wouldn t have