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galvanize their base, politicians trying to create greater division, instead of in a clear-eyed way looking forward to saying how are we going to dig our way out of the mess we re in right now, because it is a mess. it is not just trump. he is a symptom of our problems, not the essential cause in my view. senator. he certainly has made matters much worse. let s sit down and have this conversation in a longer format some time. think we could have an interesting let me come any time. you re welcome. michael bennet, thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. thanks, katie. still to come the latest on michael bloomberg s potential 2020 run and the big question, why now. plus the president is in atlanta reaching out to black voters. the co-founder of black voters matter is joining me. who if anyone will betray president trump? there are some names swirl and the white house is worried. stay with us. stay with us and the gastroenterologists who developed it. (vo) align helps t
for it. they could pursue civil contempt, which would punt it to the courts for weeks, months, potentially years. if they went through an avenue of criminal contempt it goes to bill barr s office to prosecute and that s not going to happen. what they re saying is, fine, if you don t want to abide by your oath of office, that s up to you, that s for you to live with. they re going to draw an adverse inference, which means they say if mick mulvaney had information that could clear president trump, mick mulvaney would be banging down the doors of the scif and the secure area two floors beneath me here to tell what he has to tell. because he s not doing that, they are assuming what he is withholding is damaging information. so they re making that inference, and then they re also drawing up his lack of appearance here, using it as potential grounds for an article of impeachment on obstruction of congress. katie. geoff bennett, what a week. i hope you get some sleep this weekend. nick, alw
of the relevant committees. he had to be pushed out. in vindman s testimony you see where republicans time and time again tried to get him to mention the name of the whistle-blower. vindman says time and time again he doesn t know who the whistle-blower is. the strategy, i m told, by republicans is that they thought the name would show up here or at least bread crumbs would show up in the transcripts that when it became public the whistle-blower s identity would be released, katie. it is the same story over and over, nick. well, look, this is actually a game of hangman in reverse, right. the word is already spelled out, quid pro quo. the only question is on any given occasion who is going to fill in which dot and which letter and spell it out. we basically have it. it is a quid pro quo and either witness has come forward to firm up the basic narrative, which is they offered the package of aid and well, some republicans are saying that this hasn t tied yet to the president. i qu
now when it hits the street and it is public, the public is watching this. you see the movement among the voters out there looking at this information and taking it in themselves, not being told what to think of it by attorney general barr, not being told to ignore it by the president of the united states, but they get it firsthand live on television. that s a different dynamic, and that brings a whole other level of conversation for those inside the caucus room, particularly those quiet members who live in those slightly purple districts, slightly blue districts, to sort of rethink their own political health. again, going to the point, are they willing to die on the hill of donald trump to protect him. my bet is they won t, certainly not to the extent someone like a lindsey graham and others have done. michael steele, always good to see you, my friend. thank you very much. you got, katie. the 2020 field is still reacting to the news michael bloomberg may enter the presidential r