these types of votes. it s problematic for them and for the democratic majority. and al green insisted on filing a motion that had to be voted on because of the rules. the democratic vote was 137 to kill it, 95 in favor of it. a lot of leadership members and committee chairman voted against the speaker, if you will, and with congressman green. four members of the democratic leadership, you see them right there, and more than a half dozen chairman of committee voting against. what does that tell us about the internal tensions in the party, which are real? democrats like to say, yeah, we re a big family. the president doesn t like debate in the republican party or doesn t like dissent. we think it s a good thing. is it? we have seen a lot of debate and dissention in the democratic party over a number of different issues, how far left to go, whether or not to move forward with impeachment. nancy pelosi is finding the difficulties of trying to manage a party for the party that s in the
watch, this arizona senate race will be a barn burner. this is to replace jon kyl a place holder for john mccain. that is going to be a very, very expensive race. a lot of money pouring in. on the house, side, a lot of leadership members are the top if you look if you go to axios.com and scroll a little bit down on the list the next name that shows up, alexandria ocasio-cortez. wow. shows you the incredible power of the freshmen members, she doesn t have a competitive seat. this will make her a king maker in the race being able to dole out the funds to a candidate she is excited about. is aoc getting mostly smaller donation or big donations as well? i think it s 100% the smaller donations. she has caught fire on the internet, her fight with the president over the tweets is a fund raising boost. similar to bernie sanders on the presidential side, leading her very much on the fund-raising. as we re talking about aoc, the house as you know is scheduled to vote later today on
freshmen versus the senior leadership members. matt miller, what about the legal issues here, the precedents pretty clear, but if it gets to the courts this would certainly delay their investigations if you have to have adjudication over every subpoena. the long and short of it is there is precedent that establishes the relationship between congress and the executive branch. what usually happens is a period of negotiation, if that doesn t work out eventually the courts will decide. i think most of the documents the democrats want to get, at least those from certainly those from people on the outside, they ll be able to get without much problem at all, without much question in the courts. with respect to the executive branch, eventually the courts weigh in. usually what the past shows is congress gets what it wants. the white house may be able to delay turning over documents but ultimately they can t prevent turning them over. about this question of overreach that the republicans an
we need adults in the room to change this. if you re at the banks or the restaurants or wherever you go, you feel that more personally than you do a protest at the white house. sandy says she s feeling like a pawn, she s feeling like no one is hearing her. josephine has said we have a lot of people on the air, contractors, tsa workers, who all say we re hurting right now. it seems like no one is empathasizing with their pain. meaning the people that have the power to cut a deal, make a deal, et cetera. you re hearing these people on the air. will they maybe be heard and will that be incentive to get government up and running? figure things out. the first day that members of congress come back from a recess of having worked in republican leadership, there is a meeting of republican leadership
stretched into the campaign, and where is the legality? it s not something that would be a violation of u.s. law if he was negotiating those activities while he was a candidate. at the time he was a candidate, and there s a difference what he says publicly and what exposes him or his family members for criminal liability. the bigger legal issue is what he put in the answers to the writing, and what other trump organization leadership members put in their written or oral testimony if they lied, if they tried to fudge the timeline somehow then it gets illegal?