on a whim. if democrats win back the majority in the house of representatives and you re a member of the house, what investigations do you plan to pursue, what sort of information will you pursue? you will as the majority have subpoena power. yeah. i think obviously it is still early to discuss what exactly which investigations will take place. i believe over the last two years or so, really since the president took office, the majority has not conducted robust oversight. as you know, the intelligence committee investigation in the house, for example, and the russian investigation didn t issue a single subpoena for travel records, bank records, phone records, absolutely nothing, and so what you ll see is democrats actually putting in the hard work and thorough work of going in there and doing real investigations, and we ll not only i think investigate the russian issue and interference in our election but also investigate the issue of the 500
any action before the november midterms but wouldn t comment whether his attorney general jeff sessions is safe after november 6th. would you view any effort to replace sessions as first step in his effort to try to end the russia probe? because of his past statements, then yes, i would think that firing jeff sessions would be an attempt to have some new attorney general come in and get back the power to oversee the russian investigation. the problem with that is if president trump is most likely to pick somebody that s completely loyal to him and who is essentially willing to bury that investigation, i think, that s the concern of millions of americans. and congress should pass a bill to protect bob mueller s investigation, and fortunately in the republican led congress, that legislation hasn t gone anywhere. and the president said in a tweet in his outgoing white house counsel convinced him not
tweets what was weighing on his mind today, responding to reports his daughter and son-in-law wanted mcgahn out, the president saying ivanka trump and jared kushner had nothing to do with the so-called pushing out of don mcgahn. and blasting his favorite target the media, he added they d love to portray chaos in the white house when they know chaos doesn t exist. just a smooth running machine with changing parts. but that smooth running machine is under the microscope as the president hits the road for a campaign rally tonight in indiana where republicans are trying to pick up a senate seat. cnn has learned republican senators are privately pleading with the president to wait until after midterm elections to fire sessions, fearful of the political fallout. the president is still fuming about sessions recusing himself from the russian investigation, but that s not all. he s now openly dismissive of his attorney general s personality an accent, with politico reporting the president is co
that s another story. how this plays out and whether it becomes a lawsuit or any litigation of whether ohio state s investigation that they find any wrongdoing will matter. now seems to matter to the people of ohio, ohio state university and the freedom caucus. do i think the speem aker s racs wrapped up in this. nothing in politics happens by itself. i m not giving a conspiracy theory. as far as the republican party and the republican votes, he s going to win in november. that will dispel some of the republican concerns of this and whether he was in charge of it or condoned it, which no one thinks he did as a star, winner in the wrestling competitions. so i get the story, it s an uncomfortable story to talk about. it s an uncomfortable thing. but i m not familiar with the wrestling world or what goes on
haven t read that story, charlie pierce was referring to an interview that rudy giuliani gam gave to the new york times where he said nobody is going to consider impeachment if public opinion has included this is an unfair investigation and that s why public opinion is investigation. that s what the point of this is, trying to drag down the investigation so donald trump can survive an impeachment? absolutely. and i say this as a former white collar criminal defense attorney as much as it pains me to have to say this. if you look at what rudy giuliani is doing despite all of the gaffes he makes, he is making a very vigorous defense of the president, if you look at congressional testimony and intent dealing with the independent counsel statute, nothing says the attorney general can t do what what he did. there s nothing that puts a time limit on the investigation. there s nothing that says you cannot subpoena the president of