and for what services. let s say that he did. thus far he is standing in lock step with the president, wouldn t the president just pardon him? it is possible. but if you look at history so far, the president has not pardoned his attorneys in the past, he hasn t pardoned people close to him, he hasn t pardoned people that he likes a lot. the president realizes that politically a pardon is a very dangerous thing. and in fact keep in mind if the president really wanted to pardon rudy giuliani, he could do it today. you don t need to have an actual indictment. the case can be at the investigation phase and the pardon is still affect difference. the only time limitation on a pardon is that the conduct must have already he occurred. and that is the case with rudy giuliani, whatever it is he may have done. nancy, before we go, you say this week is going to be huge on the hill. is it going to be huge based on the information you believe we re going to get from these testimonies, or will
will actually cooperate with this probe, no matter what democrats do. which is one of the reasons why some people have looked at this letter and wondered, so what s the argument here? is there any circumstance under with i the president and the white house would provide documents and depositions to the house of representatives in any kind of impeachment inquiry and it s not clear what the white house position is on that? they want to leave their options open to continue to stonewall even if there is a vote. so i think that s one of the reasons why democrats are saying we re not going to have our hands forced into a vote until we have all the facts on the table. until they know they get something out of it, right. in terms of i want to step back a bit and look through this letter a bit. there are a few things call on me. i want your expertise. the white house says the president is being denied due process and having access to charges. but this is the inquiry. this is the investigat
work product. it s a bunch of repurposed trump tweets and then a little bit of league analysis that could have been written by an undergraduate criminal justice student with apologizes to undergraduate criminal justice students because it makes so many legal claims that are unsupportable. and it has the president has been denied his right to cross-examine witnesses. there haven t we are in the house investigation phase of the impeachment process where the trial itself, if there s any place to cross-examine witnesses, it would be in the senate when there s a trial. it s these ridiculous platitudes and there s one sentence where i had to do a triple take. the house the white house counsel asserts that the due process clause applies to impeachment proceedings. and i was wondering what supreme court case stands for that
the coast guard will continue working alongside our partner agencies throughout the recovery, and now investigation phase of this incident to determine why this incident occurred and what we can will tell mike learn from this tragedy moving forward. we will work in concert with the national transportation safety board here with us today. that concludes my statement. mark hartwig, fire chief, fire warden. is this community continues to deal with the unfolding tragedy tragedy, and as this incident really turns into a search and recovery effort, the county fire district is committed to, on behalf of the county of santa barbara, expending all necessary means to find out the cause and origin of the fire
perimeter trying to figure out exactly what s going on. melissa, we get the sense from this vantage point that this is scene that is well under control, if you will, that investigators, law enforcement officials standing around right now concerned with this white van. this does not appear to be some sort of active situation. they don t appear this does not appear to be a suspect that s barricaded himself in a building or anything like that. do you get the sense there on the ground as well that this is a scene that is very much in control? i agree with you. when we first arrived here, it looks like police and fbi have it completely under control. they ve had the stretch of 441 closed off for quite some time now, so it appears that they have who they re looking for, that now they re starting their investigation phase here at this plaza. they ve been able to get people out of harm s way, if there was any risk of that at any time.