there s nothing more partisan than this. no matter who is being impeached. it s a very, very political exercise. and again, the challenge is to try to rise above that. and trey there had the right sort of comments for the moment. probably the right comments for today. and as joe points out, trey gowdy s committee spent longer investigating benghazi than congress investigated 9/11. he got 100,000 documents he didn t get. the obama administration gave him 100,000 documents, 50 witnesses. they complied with, by my count, 102 requests for documents or subpoenas. complied with by the obama administration. so if his i think joe is right. rudy is kind of slightly overexposed. they put trey on. i don t mean to tell you your job. how is he going to be able to answer any of this? how is he going to be able to get past his long record of congressional oversight, which i think was very excessive, but it was complied with. how does he get past that? how does he ever talk about what he wants
what i think it does show about joe biden, though, is that he s rusty, and out of touch and out of sync with the electorate. it seems there may be a problem when you re not winning over former members of your own administration, no? right. i mean, there have been a lot of people pointing out that obama alumni are not flocking to the side of vice president biden. i think that he is not going to have a coronation. he very well could end up being the nominee, as joe points out, does the best with older voters. and the polling numbers shows he does best in a crowded field among african-american voters. the person who wins among african-american voters is most likely sustained to be the nominee. this doesn t mean it s going to be easy and doesn t mean he s going to be a phenomenon like barack obama when he bested hillary clinton in the fight for the nomination. this is going to be hard. he s going to be challenged. i think that the other candidates like bill de blasio,
michael cohen hearings it became clear to me, while the republican support is broad, you saw no republicans going hard at michael cohen but you also didn t see them defending donald trump. this is why democrats believe, it is their calculation, that if they can get the information from the mueller report actually before the american people that they may, may have a chance of breaking that fever, as joe points out. that is why our reporting that the democrats are going to try and basically use the same arguments that the republicans used over the past couple of years in terms of forcing unprecedented forcing of information out of the justice department that is considered classified and protected to turn that around now and make that case that this information that mueller may be imminently reporting has to come before the american people. let s take a look at krch ev
points out, he should be surfaced, as one of the authors of the shutdown. you know, some people have said, mcconnell and vladimir putin are the two people who could end the shutdown. ann coulter. and vice president, and deputy chief of staff. secretary of state limbaugh. exactly. rush limbaugh. but in any case, the people pulling the strings of the american people don t have our best interests at heart. i don t see, i mean, we have the crisis at the border, you know, the internment of children, separation of children, we have the asset in the white house, the russian asset in the white house and government workers being evictioned andsome sometimes, food stamp, starving, having food insecurity because of a shut down. this is a nation in trip am kreis list. joe, last question to you. how does this play to the young and women of your great commonwealth. we saw the video a few months back of having dinner, and
great point in joe s piece. joe, i will come back to you in a moment but you bring up the fact that mitch mcconnell has real expertise, vap, like it or not, he is a guy who knows the way congress is supposed to work and you have somebody on the sidelines who could and has brokered deals in the past that nobody thought possible. as joe points out. he is known as a great obstructionist and admirers of mcconnell as a strategist will tell you unlike harry reed who was cloak and dagger who they thought was a back stabber that mcconnell has a very frank style of this kind of obstructionism that he pulls off and i would say absence and silence are good obstructionist tactics. what is better, what is a stronger no than silence. he is gone. you can t find him. i mean the aoc, you know, walking around, trying to find him is, a great set piece. but he s getting something out of that silence and absence, too, which is letting this thing continue, without having to make a strong statement, and ha