republicans in the house and the committee wanting to release the without the formal process being followed. you ve covered the intelligence world for a long time. there is a process for procedures for very specific reasons. it is, even the senate intelligence chair, the republican intelligence chair, richard burke. he hasn t been allowed to see the memo. so there s got to be, he know, from our reporting, there is a lot of pressure coming from the president s fellow republicans, as much as those who say they want to release it. the republicans are saying, do not do this. at least not yet in this way. and take one big step back. one of the factors that is so abnormal in all of this is that
rating among democrats as 68%. among republicans it was 86%. this is what makes the people on capitol hill want to defend him. the house intelligence chair. the house intelligence chair has done that, and this is also the context in which the senate homeland security chairman ron johnson last week seemed to get ahead of himself talking about a secret society based on one text message that now appears to be a joke. the final verdict of this mueller investigation could come down to an act of congress. and if republicans believe, as many do, that this whole investigation is illegitimate, this creates an extraordinary situation, i think. yeah, and i think you also see a lot of this, that republican approval rating coming out of the controversy about the memo really being generated in conservative media. and they ve been pushing this very, very, very hard. now, there is some virtue in having perhaps a minority report, right, a group of
and chuck rosenberg, to that point, the reporting overnight that the president was trying to persuade the intelligence chair, the senate intelligence chair, richard burke, and others who named and acknowledged on the record that he was trying to persuade them to back off of the russian investigation. problematic. that s similar personally problematic or politically or both? i m not much on the politically problematic, but legally it could be a justice type charge. we know he also wanted jim comey to go easy on mike flynn because mike flynn was a good guy. those are problems legally. i think it s important for folks to know that merely because you might have conduct that meets the elements of the obstruction of justice statute doesn t necessarily mean that you bring an obstruction of justice charge. prosecutors also need to know that they have a reasonable
politician, yeah. that is a fact. he knows what is coming. cnn learned yesterday that dianne feinstein will have a challenger in the state race, will you support the incumbent senator in this election? she has not asked me yet, john, and i hope she does because i would support her. i think she has done a terrific job, not just as the intelligence chair, somebody that worked through our national security issues, but on gun violence. we were reminded a few weeks ago in las vegas that because we have made it easier for people to have firearms we are more vulnerable to these types of shootings. this is something she has been fighting for since she became mayor, when the mayor of san francisco was killed by gun violence, she passed the assaults weapon ban, which expired and i think we need her fighting for us in the senate. i guess that rules out a run for you, right?
american people need to know. and i just realized that was actually last month, late last month, it has been reported today, but the raid happened on july 26th. and speaking of cooperation, also, on the house side, former house member, we now learn the details of why house intelligence committee staffers showed up in london, trying to find the author of that controversial dossier, christopher steel, former intelligence current intelligence guy, and the staffers were republican staffers, it turns out not only did adam schiff not know about it, the democratic ranking member, but mike conway, the republican, who is subbing for the chairman did not know and according to the guardian on rachel maddow s show, they were sent there by devin nunez, the intelligence chair, who is recused from all of this. and discredited in the process and had to step down because of his collusion with the white house. the apparent collusion. look, this is another example of