get away as fast as we can from john slightly obscene graphic, impeachment is maybe the easiest thing in the world to say from the cheap seats. we do it all the time. all the guests on this broadcast talk about it like it s liquid. it s much tougher to do as john indicated in real practice. question to you is, as congress left for six weeks, did the prospect, the real prospect of impeachment it have walked out the door with them. it s too early to tell. as john was saying earlier, a lot of it will depend on what the constituents are saying back home. but that being said, the pro-impeachment wing of the democratic caucus was hoping to have reached a critical threshold heading into this long break. they wanted to get the majority of the caucus and they didn t. i mean, yes, seven democrats have jumped on the bandwagon, including a chairman a member of
along with joe, willie, and me we have historian, author of the soul of america and rogers proffers of the presidency at vanderbilt university, john meecham. a nbc news and msnbc contributor. author of a world in disarray, richard haas with us. and former fbi special agent and msnbc contributor clint watts. we re going to get to the israel story in a moment. and secretary of state mike pompeo agreeing with reporters suggestion that god may have sent president trump to earth to protect israel. also, the marines top general warning that the pentagon, that president trump s decision to deploy troops to the southern border is posing a, quote, unacceptable risk to marine corps readiness and solvency. and the boeing 737 max planes involved in the deadly
we just heard. there were nuggets there that were new. there was a lot of information. obviously these were four people that knew the former president quite well. his biographer, a fellow world leader, former senator who worked closely with him and then of course his oldest son. much of it was about the dignity of the man, his grace, his modesty, his insistence on treating. like you would want to be treated. a lot of values that make people wonder where they are in washington today. you know, alan simpson referred to the high road of humility in washington is not a road that is often besieged with traffic or words along those lines. and yet george h.w. bush even in that anecdote about john meecham
read his eulogy to george h.w. bush obviously in the preceding months. and the response, according to what meecham sold geist is george h.w. bush said that s a lot about me, john. which of course it is. it s a eulogy for a former president. that gets to the humility and modesty of the man we ve been hearing about so much. and jeff zeleny is there at joint base andrews. the presidential hearsay e is there, the motorcade has arrived but this is the advance we re seeing right now. what are you seeing on the scene for us, jeff? we re seeing the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and other branches of service
world war heroism and realized always scares you to death in a public speech situation is someone before you said your best stuff and you have to figure it out. michael steele, same question. soaring. amazing. personal. those words struck me over and over again. starting with john meecham s speech which was so grounding in many respects where you got a sense of the young pilot, the young father, the young president when just sort of came into his own at those very critical moments in his life. and how we are all touched by that. i envy nicole for being in that bubble and witness history in a very personal way and i got a sense of that today. i got a real sense of that today