conversations and for cohen to breech it right out of the gate, you can see how he will be interested in open testimony. that makes them far more accessible and it s reasonable for them to say the ground rules. you understand why they wouldn t at least want to take advantage of michael cohen and question him for four or five hours and he may not be under oath and you cannot lie to a senate committee, that s perjury. that s right. i would say let s go forward. he did breech the protocol that is wrong, but we have him here. he has important information to tell us about trump s russia doles for the trump moscow property. let s get it and say to him later, do you that again to us
voted against it. they are susan collins, lisa murkowski and john mccain. that was a surprise to many people when he issued that for. instead of looking at the past, let s go forward. what can be done going forward, you heard john mccain on the senate floor professing the desire for bipartisanship going forward. without bipartisan support, without aligning the factions of the republican party, have the republican party thought it was too liberal. there are issues with obamacare, some of the initial proposals with the first version of trumpcare, and to rollback medicaid and cost sharing reductions, and to talk about more affordable plans,
when he s this weak with republicans who are getting increasingly nervous about him? not a smart political move from somebody who has done so many things that have been against his interests, but especially now. it would be pretty devastating for republicans. so elizabeth, if you compare the president s obsession with his attorney general investigating hillary clinton, at least we ve seen it in his tweets this morning. he gave you an answer back on november 22nd, 2016, saying my inclination would be for whatever power i have on the matter is to say let s go forward. this has been looked at for so long. let s go forward. and you know, you could also make the case some good work was done in the foundation and they could have made mistakes. i think it s time for people to say let s go and solve some of the problems we have, blah, pla blah. i guess he wants to move forward. my question is does that back up
him just a few days after the election where he was a very different president-elect trump than he is now. and we all know he was he talked about it s time to let it go. the clintons have suffered enough. it was quite striking when he said that at the time. he went in to the times in new york. and in that interview he was also very easy going, very open-minded about a lot of issues, and we know that he often plays to an audience, and i think in this case looking back, and we thought it at the time, he was trying to please his audience, and he certainly changed. and i do think that that he s angry now about the russia investigation. he can t shake it no matter what he does. it doesn t go away. it gets worse and worse for him. i think there s a certain amount of frustration when he wakes up in the morning and starts tweeting. joe? let s go to gene robinson and
we are entitled to have an up or down vote on judge gorsuch. we were following your rules, the bind rule that when an election is under way for president there wouldn t be a supreme court pick. judge jeanine: each side has a lot of bad blood on this issue. let s go forward. this guy has a judicial temperament, the experience. i never saw a guy so attacked in my life and you didn t get a rights out of him. unfortunately he comes to the congress and the congress has been made very partisan by mitch mcconnell specifically. harry reid changed the rules. if you have guys play russian roulette instead of chess. right now we are exchanging