somebody who has fresh, new blood. trump had his chance to drain the swamp. i think it s time to go for another candidate who can drain the swamp. okay, i m back with anna, jay, joe, and john. anna, i m always fascinated when i talk to folks. outside of manhattan. and here. to hear what the rest of the country s thinking. your thoughts when you heard this? i know some of these people. who think the same way. some of them are, in my family. look, trump has been very effective in portraying his christ-like complex. and, talking about how he is taking this with him. he is suffering for them. it is his sacrifice for them. and there are people who generally believe that despite the fact that there is video, audio, and hard evidence documenting. they do not believe their eyes. they do not believe what they see, it is cult like behavior
faith. republicans are struggling with their philosophies. but i m up first wrong national defense, swearing in cobb s, the things that we used to do. and things that were good for the country. thank you for having you here. thanks for your perspective. we have a lot to talk about, let s bring in cnn political commentator, navarro, rolling stone columnist, jay michaelson, former candidate, joe pinion, and special watergate prosecutor, john. great to have you here tonight. governor desantis has now responded to ed rowlands criticisms, as well as other, so here is what he just said tonight. when i hear about culture war, standing up for the rights of parents? standing up for the well-being of children? that is not some culture war, that is central to the lives of tens of millions of people throughout this country. it is the right thing to do to stand with our kids. it is the right thing to impose
issues are pertinent to the american public is because of why he was perhaps given the money that he then refused to pay taxes on. so we would like to know that the full investigation did occur, that includes people being able to ask questions about the father s involvement and when you have whistleblowers come forth sugging that those questions weren t even able to be asked then you have to question the veracity of the investigation altogether because again if you look at what happened with lieutenant colonel vindman and whistleblower should be believed it should be the case that they should be heard irrespective of their political leanings of the person coming forward or the political party implicated by that testimony. but joe, didn t the u.s. attorney weiss say his hands were not tied. i think he has said in a statement that i would argue is similarly vague, i would prefer to elie for that. but the statement itself did not say with complete certainty what happened and when it h
that trump called marjorie taylor greene and recently to complain about the lack of action from mccarthy. so just a good window there into the complicated dynamics that spearer mccarthy is trying to navigate. thank you. let s bring my panel in. joe pinion and ashley allison and elie honig. so speaker mccarthy said he s considering launching an impeachment inquiry. we re seen this before, not so long ago. but can you refresh our memories about what that entails, exactly. sure. it is important to keep in mind, wild the constitution gives us the broad parameters about impeachment, the nuances, procedures are up to the house itself. now if we go back to 2019, donald trump first impeachment over ukraine. in september of 2019 then speaker nancy pelosi announced the formal opening of an impeachment inquiry. and from that point on the next two months or so we heard public testimony from people like ambassador william taylor and
very rarely charged against anyone. so just looking at that, i don t see anything out of the ordinary. but the bigger question is what was universe of facts relating to hunter biden and with there other readily chargeable or pursuable crimes that were not followed up on. that we don t know. it seems to be the subject of congressional inquiry and that will give us the bigger picture here. and joe, we know that u.s. attorney david weiss has agreed to testify before congress this fall. what do you want to hear from him? well, look, we would like to hear that his hands were not tied, that the investigation was not in any way impeded by anyone at the department of justice that these that this was the strongest case that could have been brought against hunter biden. again, let s be very clear, a gun that was disguarded illegally has very little to do with the american public. the tax problems of a vice president now president s son has very little to do with the american public. the on