base may demand of them or punish them for? first of all, now that you have a democratic majority in the house and they have the gavel, they should have additional hearings and get to the bottom of these issues. it may be that the court up in new york, the federal court in new york as well as the other independent mueller investigation will be proceeding and bringing new facts to light, but that can be augment and strengthened by the house democratic majority holding hearings on the things and they have to make a decision. whether or not the president s conduct has reached the tipping point that would justify impeachment. that requires both a legal calculation, but also a political one. i m sure the members of the house will be looking at those two. weighing where exactly the threshold is. again, nobody is eager to
the president is very impulsive about whether you are in or out based on how things go from one day to the next. it s not like they agree on every last thing. there will be points at which they clash. if those clashes lead to a falling out, they can go the way of the predecessors. you start off on a positive foot and compared to the other people on the short list with whom trump has, that s at least different. you look at the reporting that have so many people that don t want the job. it s extraordinary. you are walking into a dark time in the presidency. the mueller investigation will come to a close at some point. he is facing what will be a tough challenge and that s why people are making the case that meadows will be good. the investigation is something he can manage. he fancies himself a deal maker of sorts and someone who can
stampede into an impeachment proceeding, but if you have very serious violations of the law, that is the process for holding a president accountable. again, let s wait and see what the muler report brings. i want to ask you about formform er fbi director comey. he was at an event in new york and said all of us should use every breath we have to make sure the lies stop on january 20, 2021. is it appropriate for him to be so political when it comes to president trump? well, he is now a private citizen. i believe in fact and a witness in an active investigation though. that s right. it s not as if he is divorced from this process. no, he s not, but it s appropriate for him to express his views as he said publicly.
constitutional basis. let me give you an example of why not. the people who wrote the constitution knew how to immunize people in the government. when they were traveling to and from congress and they are free from arrest and engaged in speech and debate, they can t be brought to answer for anything they say in that context. they knew how to immunize people. they did not say a word in the constitution about immunizing the president because he is president and lastly i will point out that the people who wrote those papers say that the president can t be indicted and wrote them while they worked for a president who was himself in two cases, the two presidents were under investigation themselves. a couple of quick points. number one is that s how it winds up going.
terms including having private calls and exchanging texts and referring to each other on a first name basis. the close relationship continued after he was murdered on ways he could weather the storm. joining me now is the senator from maryland, chris van holland. we have such a big news day here. we are learning that some house democrats may tie kushner to the crown prince. do you support the investigation? yes, i do. a large part of the problem we had has been due to the sense that he s gotten from jared kushner and president trump. whether it s kidnapping the prime minister of lebanon or orchestrating the american resident and reporter for the