laura: it wasn t great. it wasn t good but itprobabl, either. laura: not complete. i want to get back to this. menendez, durbin, leahy wrote to ukraine demanding that they cooperate with investigations into the trump campaign. they heavily implied their support was to aid their aid to ukraine was at stake in all of this. so, ironically, robert ray, this is the exact behavior democrats say is an impeachable offense even without the explicit quid pro quo that you could say in a way exists with the democrat senators. what is this we are talking about? what this is about of course is about politics and much less about whether or not really there is an impeachable offense. i just listened recently ont another network to aoc essentially claim that a basis for impeachment is deviation t from our norms of democracy. we don t impeach presidents based upon deviation from
probably wasn t laura: not complete. i want to get back to this. menendez, durbin, leahy wrote to ukraine demanding that they cooperate with investigations into the trump campaign. they heavily implied their support, their aid to ukraine was at stake in all of this so ironically robert ray, this is the exact behavior democrats say is an impeachable offense even without the explicit quid pro quo that you could say in a way exists with the democrat senators. what is this we are talking about? what this is about of course is about politics and much less about whether or not really there is an impeachable offense. i just listened recently on another network to aoc essentially claim that a basis for impeachment is deviation from our norms of democracy. we don t impeach presidents
stories of the night, who sits on the senate judiciary committee where you had some fireworks today. it was an effort by the chairman, senator dianne feinstein said it is going to peel things back like minimum standards for detention centers at the border, democrats fought this and here is what senator leahy had to say. these rules are no longer in effect, the same republicans who voted for them 6 months ago say that, tear them up. why are we so eager to discard our norms and principles? apparently the answer is for
generational and ideological divide inside the party how to deal with this administration. the bill that just passed, it s notable to me that the four no votes were yourself, iana pressley, rashida talib and alexandria ocasio-cortez. there were 33 democrats in the senate who also voted against it, and if you read through it, it reads like some of the more liberal but even doug jones of alabama voted against it. tim kaine, leahy and the seven senate democrats who were running for president weren t there, they were at the debate. why do you suppose and i m not asking you to criticize your colleagues but why are moderates in the house so insistent on cutting deals with the white house rather than cutting deals with progressives like you to hold the white house to account and to really go hard when it
she needs to understand what history is and what is happening on the border, had she gone to see it, people who are illegally crossing coming over. this is a country caring for them, providing healthcare, taking care of the children. the majority of children coming over are not with their parents. it is fundamentally different and she is trying to use something without understanding history and i would never compare the 2. she is the country an apology. shannon: we understand there s a package coming together on the senate side. senators shelby and leahy may have worked out an agreement on supplemental appropriations to go to what a lot of people are calling a humanitarian crisis at the border and also getting word about other things democrats would like to tuck into this