the president has stated he would welcome foreign help to win the 2020 election. i find this extremely concerning. the mueller report gave us a lot of information, but it left open a lot of key questions that house committees are investigating. i have long stated that i support the impeachment-related investigation by chairman nadler and the others being pursued by five other committees. the american people deserve all the facts and full transparency and congress needs this information to inform a decision to move forward with the very sobering act of drafting articles of impeachment. and just as importantly, we need the information to better understand how our election was influenced by a foreign adversary to prevent it from ever happening again. joining our discussion now is malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. he is the author of the plot to destroy democracy: how putin and his spies are undermining america and dismantling the west. malcolm, you must fee
to move forward with the very sobering act of drafting articles of impeachment. and just as importantly, we need the information to better understand how our election was influenced by a foreign adversary to prevent it from ever happening again. joining our discussion now is malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. he is the author of the plot to destroy democracy: how putin and his spies are undermining america and dismantling the west. malcolm, you must feel grateful that someone in the impeachment discussion has finally paid attention to volume i. that is precisely what i was thinking in your opening segment there. that finally someone has glommed on to what robert mueller was really trying to say. first off, the united states was not meddled in, it was attacked. physically attacked. u.s. citizens were affected. materials were stolen. the american electoral process
we re back now live with jerry nadler who at this point is the man of the hour, sir, thank you for sticking with us. in addition to this impeachment discussion that we ve been having, we have heard some reports that your committee may cut short the plansned recess you re in to talk about potential gun reform legislation. can you tell us anything about that? our committee voted in february and the house passed in february or march very substantial universal background check legislation for guns and the charleston loophole, plugging up loopholes in the background check laws and it s been over 160 days that it s been sitting in the senate and mitch mcconnell hasn t committed it. we took what we thought were the very easy bills, and we sent
we re back now live with house judiciary chairman jerry nadler who at this point is the man of the hour. sir, thank you for sticking with us. in addition to this impeachment discussion that we ve been having, we have heard some reports that your committee may cut short the planned recess in order to talk about potential gun reform legislation. can you tell us anything about that? our committee voted in february and the house passed in february or march very substantial universal background check legislation for guns and something called the charleston loophole, plugging up some loopholes in the background check laws, and it s been over 160 days that it s been sitting in the senate. and mitch mcconnell has not permitted a vote. we hope they will.
impeachment discussion. so, of course, the process continues, nancy pelosi made that very clear. president trump is a bottom line kind of guy. so he sees that yesterday. we saw him do that when the report came out. now, in terms of substance, there were some moments in which mueller did say things that were problematic for the president. he said it was problematic to praise wikileaks, for example, he said his report did not exonerate on issues of obstruction. those are issues democrats will continue to focus on. for his part, president trump will focus on the bottom line. that s what we are seeing from the top leaders at the white house. they were pretty exuberant yesterday. you can make the point the democrats failed in a way, they put all their hopes on dramatic presentation on robert mueller and have for months. they let william barr set the table and create a new narrative, a false narrative if you will and the president