other avenues for her to point to as points of progression in investing trump. you could theoretically a month ago say, we have the mueller hearing coming up. we can wait for that. at this point, what her team is doing is they re saying well, we have the core proceedings coming up looking into the trump s finances, looking to get don mcgahn to testify, but those aren t satisfying end points for the progressive wing to say we can wade off of that. trump stemming oversight efforts have complicated the task also. there s a threat of argument in democratic circles that simply punting this to the judiciary committee saying, listen, go ahead. initiate impeachment proceedings does allow pelosi to alleviate some of the burden on the numbers by letting them say, okay, you can point to that. you can point to that and do your own thing in your district and maybe just separate the two. i don t know if i d buy that logic but that s the new
the judiciary committee saying, you better not fire bob mueller. if he fires bob mueller, that will be political suicide. by the way, any impeachment hearings or any hearings, impeachment in the house, any hearings about removing the president because of that? would start in the chairman judiciary s committee. so there couldn t be a more important republican to send that warning shot to president trump. than chuck grassley. and lindsey graham said something similar as well. sarah sanders from the podium said the president believes he has the legal authority to fire bob mueller. she didn t explain exactly how that worked. but she said he s been advised by legal experts that he could do it somehow. and the way to do it, if you read through michael schmidt in the new york times report this morning is to get rid of rod rosenstein, who authorized personally the raid on michael cohen s offices and hotel room