other days that democrats have been mad? the new twist, a new tone from the most powerful woman in politics with our nbc news reporting, house speaker nancy pelosi is talking about taking a more aggressive stance toward impeachment. and just in the last day you ve got 15 more democrats coming out in favor of impeachment, seven of them more moderate democrats signaling they re more into it than they ve ever been because of what the president has done. absolutely a threat to our democracy, absolutely just chilling in the depth and breadth of these allegations. the ground is shifting but we do not know where it may settle. we re asking a member of congress who will be in the room when the impeachment discussion goes down. we ve got new reporting from inside trump world and the halls of congress from our nbc news team and the smartest analysis from the country s leading
i see it from a mile away. they re going to formalize some of the procedures in their impeachment discussion. now you re right. that is scintillating. what they decide to do or not do, may not be important. but what s clear is there s clear disagreement inside the party. listen to did different democrats say different things about exactly what s happening. is the house launching an impeachment inquiry? had. is it an impeachment investigation. no. it s the same thing we ve been doing. do we meet the definition required to get grand jury material in court? during the midst of a l investigation. i don t want to get caught in semantics. too late. too late. who s going to tell the congressman? look, they are officially announcing an impeachment investigation. that is not the same thing as impeachment. but it is going to be designed to define the rules of the road,
to be that big a deal, and this case sort of fizzling here. the republican hopes that they would be able to point to similar prosecutions to what mueller had done to the trump campaign have not come to fruition. i was looking at the president. the president had tweeted about the podesta investigation. he had tweeted about greg craig when he was indicted. these were things they were really hoping would really move the needle. and they did not. so chuck rosenberg, congress comes back and especially the democrats in congress, hoping no one noticed that they took the summer off. and here we put together a graphic of their laundry list of plans for post-break. as heilemann was saying, a short session. the legal fight over the mcgahn testimony, public hush money hearings, that story they re going to have to tell from word one all over again. subpoena to the department of homeland security over reports of trump dangling pardons for wrongdoing. impeachment discussion. we left that minor poin
testimony, public hush money hearings, that story they re going to have to tell from word one all over again. subpoena to the department of homeland security over reports of trump dangling pardons for wrongdoing. impeachment discussion. we left that minor point for last. chuck, of all those stories, the notion of floating pardons allegedly, how tough a case is that to take on? well, it s tough. and here s why, brian. again, as with the mcgahn testimony the president will undoubtedly assert either absolute immunity, meaning folks can t even go and testify, or executive privilege, meaning they can go and testify, they just can t talk about private confidential conversations within the executive branch. that stuff has to be litigated. we ve been saying this for a while now. it has to be resolved by a federal district court. and it has to be resolved quickly. otherwise, the clock runs out on
of trump dangling pardons for wrongdoing. impeachment discussion. we left that minor point for last. chuck, of all those stories, the notion of floating pardons allegedly, how tough a case is that to take on? well, it s tough. and here s why, brian. again, as with the mcgahn testimony the president will undoubtedly assert either absolute immunity, meaning folks can t even go and testify, or executive privilege, meaning they can go and testify, they just can t talk about private confidential conversations within the executive branch. that stuff has to be litigated. we ve been saying this for a while now. it has to be resolved by a federal district court. and it has to be resolved quickly. otherwise, the clock runs out on this. congress may hear from people who weren t in the executive branch. perhaps the folks involved in the hush money payments. but if it comes to pardons or mcgahn or things within the