is going to happen until january 6th in any case. lonnie, do any republicans that you know take this pelosi strategic move seriously? not really. i mean, i think the challenge for speaker pelosi is ultimately she s probably going to have to send this impeachment over to the senate. the question is not if but when. so i think a lot of people are puzzled by what the end game is. they say you don t take the hostage unless you re prepared to hurt the hostage. in this case it seems to me speaker pelosi is probably not prepared in any way, shape, or form to hold this process from going forward, precisely as susan said, because she would much rather democrats move on to an agenda i think that s going to be much more compelling as they seek control of the congress and control of the white house in 2020. so it s unlikely in my mind that the end engage here is anything other than this going over to the senate with the rules that mitch mcconnell is going to put in place, because mcconnell has
investigation. and in the face of all that, incredibly president trump promoting an outrageous and completely unfounded conspiracy theory, attempting to link epstein s death to bill and hillary clinton. the big picture tonight, is president trump degrading the office of the presidency? lots to discuss. lonnie chan and tim naftali, who is the author of impeachment in american history. good to see all of you. thank you all for coming on. lonnie, i m going to start with you. first i m going to ask you about anthony scaramucci. moments ago he told anderson cooper the gop needs to move on from trump from the 2020 election. watch this. when you go to bed tonight and you re thinking about your country, don t focus on your wallet or your pocketbook. focus on what s right for america and say, is this guy normal? is this the right way to handle things in america? and i think when you do that, you ll get to the place where i m at.
you might be perceiving the mueller investigation no, i m nottage tailed. it s a hoax. there was no collusion. did anything trigger that set of tweets? not at all. i m very happy with the white house. i think the phrase no collusion is a trigger these days. if there s been one constant it s been that he runs the show. no one tells him what to do. no one tells him to what to say or tweet. perhaps the brink on the single most important moment, will president trump continue to act on his own and how costly could that be? dana goldman joins me, former u.s. assistant district attorney and currently a fellow at the brennan center for justice and joins carol lee, lonnie chan, hoover institution fellow and maria teresa cukumar. everybody just at the table here laughed when the president said i answered these without a lawyer.
that s ordinarily how these things would work. let me play another sound bite here from the president talking about trick questions that he thinks that he was having to deal with. take a listen. i m sure they re tricked up because they like to catch people, gee, you know, was the weather sunny or was it rainy? he said it may have been a good day, it was rainy, therefore, he told a lie. he perjured himself, okay. so, you know, i have to always be careful when you answer questions with people who probably have bad intentions but, no, it s the questions were very routinely answered by me, by me. lonnie, first of all, i go back to i don t know why as daniel pointed out he is not leaving any room here that somehow all the lawyers did it, they misinterpreted what i meant to say to the prosecutor. i think we should put aside any lawyer would advise
this election. the phrase made famous during bill clinton s run for the white house still holds true today. from jobs, wages stock market speaking to the stock market, the dow scored 371 points, the biggest gain after james comey cleared hillary clinton in the e-mail investigation. the markets read that as fafrlible for clinton s run. stocks jumped on the news, why? no, the markets aren t in love withic hillary clinton but they hate uncertainty. and trump is more of an unknown and comes with unpredictable on big issues like trade. meanwhile, the s&p 500 could fall 3 to 500 if trump wins. and deutsche bank stocks could also fall if trump wins. joining us, ben stein, lonnie chan, a republican who is not supporting trump.