Briefing room when Mick Mulvaney struck down the defense against impeachment by admitting to ukraine and a debunked Conspiracy Theory involving democrats and the 2016 election. He also mention me in the past that the corruption that related to the dnc server, absolutely. No question about that. But thats it. Thats why we held up the money. Now there was a report so the demand for an investigation into the democrats was part of the reason that he it was to withhold funding to ukraine . The lookback to what happened in 2016, certainly was part of the thing that he was worried about in corruption with that nation. And that is absolutely appropriate. Rolled into funding. Yes. Lets be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo. It is funding will not phflow unless the investigation into the democratic server happened as well. We do that all the time with Foreign Policy. Mckinney said yesterday he was really upset with the political influence in Foreign Policy. That was one of the reasons h
Of southern preachers. And cummings never left baltimore. He rose to national prominence. He took a lead role in investigating President Trump and his administration. At a tern point as we all know he earned the ire of President Trump. President trump attacked him and. Most of the people in this country dont even know who their member of congress is. People say i had a conversation with him last sunday at church. Here we are, the work of this Oversight Committee continuing even though the congressman had not been here on kycapitol hill. He had been talking to a lot of people, and im told that the work of that committee will carry on a pace without delay. And that right now i think people are remembering himg for the passion that he brought to Public Service and the moral force and the strong moral leadership that he brought to ky capitol hill. He was a force in terms of the impeachment proceedings, where do go from here . Another day, another closed door deposition here. Folks at home
Looking to see if he should keep his trident. He would not be kicked out of of the navy, but he would lose his status as a navy seal. Secretary spencer turned back to the white house and said a tweet is not an order, if you want us to do this then i need a written order explaining it, and if i get that order i will probably resign. A bunch of military and pentagon leaders stepped in, a number of army leaders surrounded the president and explained to him this process trying to convince him that in effefact it was bet for him to the not intervene. Then there was another meeting. By friday night it seemed the president would not weigh in, and then on sunday afternoon he heard that secretary spencer has been fired saying he got involved in the process. Now Eddie Gallagher will keep his trident point without the review process. Jeff bennet has been all over the impeachment inquiry but today he is with me here in new york. David druker also here. Joist vance and john gans. Also the author of
President. Good thursday morning, everybody. It is december 5th, im yasmin vossoughian, and after another consequential day in washington we are happy to have nbc White House Correspondent jeff bennet filling in. You must be incredibly tired. I watched you through the entire day yesterday and saw your point of view. Just powering through. We begin with the eighthour impeachment hearing on capitol hill where three of the legal scholars called to testify by democrat, told the committee responsible for drafting articles of impeachment, the House Judiciary Committee, that President Trump undoubtedly committed impeachable offenses arguing that the president s conduct regarding ukraine is exactly what the founders had in mind when they carved out a path for removing a president. Watch this. If we cannot impeach a president who abuses his advantage for personal advantage we no longer live in a democracy. We live in a monarchy, or we live under a dictatorship. Thats why the framers created the
That the pot should not call the kettle black. The president says he is being misquoted, saying inaccuratably that the European Countries are not providing enough support to ukraine. And he has tweeted or retwaeete 105 times today. Joining us now is matt miller, chris lu, former deputy secretary in the obama administration. Susan page, and jeff bennet on capitol hill. Lets talk about how far we have gone because they have not yet had a roll call on the Second Amendment from matt gates introduced with a lot of controversy because he was repeating all kinds of contested allegations trying to substitute hunter biden for the joe biden aspect of article one in the abuse of powere lines. Youre right about that, andrea. A decided lack of self awareness on the part of matt gates. He was checked by congressman hank johnson given that gates has a record of a dui arrest. But for the most part, setting aside the few clearing exceptions, the proceeding that we have seen today has been mostly subdue