being the fourth impeachment inquiry which is extraordinary the on its own, but if you re actually going to impeach and have the senate remove, that would literally be an unprecedented act in american history. so you need a sense of the enormity of the gravity that would justify doing it, and doing it within the 12-month window of the campaign that the incumbent president has a significant chance of winning. howard: why is it that the mainstream media consensus, i don t think anybody would dispute this, is that what happened with trump and ukraine is shocking to the conscience? well, because they find everything he s done over the past three years pretty much shocking to the conscience, and this is one reason republicans are jaded on this and think there s a huge pretextual element of it. they, democrats have wanted to impeach him from day one, and the immediate. ya media was spun up for over two years in a
howie. you know, we talk about this being the fourth impeachment inquiry which is extraordinary the on its own, but if you re actually going to impeach and have the senate remove, that would literally be an unprecedented act in american history. so you need a sense of the enormity of the gravity that would justify doing it, and doing it within the 12-month window of the campaign that the incumbent president has a significant chance of winning. howard: why is it that the mainstream media consensus, i don t think anybody would dispute this, is that what happened with trump and ukraine is shocking to the conscience? well, because they find everything he s done over the past three years pretty much shocking to the conscience, and this is one reason republicans are jaded on this and think there s a huge pretextual element of it. they, democrats have wanted to impeach him from day one, and the immediate. ya media was
he would say trump senior aides feel the need to distance themselves from him without fear of consequences. the question is, which one of those at two should reviews this in? the president could fire them all tomorrow if you wanted it to you but donald trump doesn t actually like firing people is much as the image on the apprentice might make the public believe. i think he is giving them space, particularly in the wake of charlottesville to disagree with him somewhat and if he thinks they are doing a good job they can continue. the mainstream media consensus say this is insubordination, he has to get rid of them, it shows how weak he is that he s allowing them to continue, that seems to be the media s take my view is the president doesn t have to prove his toughness to anybody and if he doesn t think they re doing a good job, he should dump them but if he thinks james mattis and rex tillerson are doing good
and the next day, here is what she told the egyptian prime minister, we know that the attack in libya had nothing to do with the film it was a planned attack, not a protest. that set off this exchange. i m reading what you said. plain language. we know the attack in libya had nothing to do with the film. why didn t you just speak plain to the american people? i am sorry that it doesn t fit your narrative, congressman, i can teller only tell you the facts. in the end, most of the mainstream media consensus is that you and the other republicans on the person gaze committee did not come up with much new. how do you respond? it is new to tell the american people she said something completelyvate tellinn private and telling spin to the american people. who talks in language like that? some scruff thises is a response to inflammatory material.contrast that what she said to the egyptian prime minister we know the attack had
but nobody was listening to the substance. they were watching the puff. that s the thing, howie. you know, that lead we put together tonight and the lead last night, it took some homework. you had to work. you had to pay attention. you had to go through the tr transcript said, you had to understand the case and how it evolved and spin after spin was disproven, as catherine herridge in particular stayed on this case and her reporting reveals so much of what i just said, and only then did the administration come out and admit it. stephen hayes haas also done a great job. this is the final revelation, that their theory all along, that the administration was lying about the video, was proven true. because hillary clinton knew by her own words that the video had nothing to do with it. as a journalist who follows this stuff, i thought that was a really important revelation. but to the mainstream media consensus that the hearing was a flop, and some conservatives calling it benghazi bust,