whistle-blower. it distresses me because i begin to wonder about the motivations. the final analysis, the way i look at this is if we were investigating an arson, you all would indict the person who pulled the fire alarm. that person s job is done, and we ve seen the smoke and we ve seen the fire. whatever the whistle-blower did doesn t change the president s actions, doesn t change the president s own words which are in our testimony or in our body of evidence. it doesn t change mr. mulvaney s own words. it doesn t change the body of evidence here. all it does is put this person at risk. back to the documents and what you know, including mr. ambassador, you seem to have your memory jogged by documents.
it s a desperate gasp of a day. it doesn t change or stop the unlawful impeachment probe. i do want to mention something. we always try to get all of it in here, all the facts. there are republicans who argue that the hearing should be open and there may be merits to that argument but they don t get to make that call in the current congress because the united states house is won by the party that won more seats and many topics are covered in closed hearings and many republicans doing these stunts today, they know that, because when they ran these committees they also had secure, private hearings. what do they say about the substance of ambassador taylor s testimony that led to this direct action, if you want to call it that? here was one of the very republican protest leaders today, who led this whole thing actually confronted by reporters asking about the testimony. mr. brooks, mr. brooks, the
her caucus. a lot of democrats on the liberal side of the caucus pushing for impeachment and by coming out today she was able to quell that. by the same token, nobody has talked about this yet, she is giving moderate democrats a foil. they can say my i am not as extreme as nancy pelosi or alexandria ocasio cortez, i m not for impeachment and gives them a chance to run against that in 2020. shannon: how does the decision change the discussion moving forward? she didn t say articles of impeachment. it doesn t change much. i talked to elliott angle, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and he says it didn t change anything tactically. there is not a vote scheduled in the house of representatives, nobody will be on record so impeachment without impeachment, a lot of members of the public think they are impeaching the president already so it doesn t change the calculus very much.
some to see a different bob mueller. he did look older and he was quite concise and he made it clear that he was not going to play a lot of ball. so that was the day of. but as we ve reported tonight, you have now dozens more joining this, and then you re going to come back in september, and cory lewandowski, if it doesn t change, going to be publicly questioned under oath about what mueller said were obstruction. i think it s going to matter tremendously because i think the piece that has been missing here for the american public is exactly what these witnesses said to robert mueller because the report is so dense and because mueller was just going to stick to read my report. so, when people that err what these witnesses like cory learn skofrp ski are essentially directed to lie or obstruct by donald trump, i do think that s going to matter. and i think the mistake, and i say mistake lightly because it s a difficult decision and
republican. it doesn t change regardless of whether the president tweets. it s demoralizing as someone who spends a career in the service for the president to attack you. he has attacked me personally. but at the same time, the mission is so compelling. if you are looking at the russians trying to come after an election system, regardless of what the president says, your going to be motivated. joyce vance, among mueller s legacies, i guess it must be said he warned at the start and at the finish of his nine-minute press statement, he warned in print for all to see, and he warned as recently as the questioning with will hurd who is in the news tonight in a way that we ll get to in this hour. the ongoing attacks. so his legacy must include the fact that he was loud and he was clear on just this topic. this always seemed to be the point that mueller most wanted to emphasize to the american people. it was up front in the report