Watched so many hearings chaired by gragssley weve seen enough o be surprised at the number of breaks the chairman has taken but you see don mcgahn, the white House Counsel going out the back door and hell go after judge kavanaugh and youll see members of the Committee Filing out. It continues to be such an interesting day of testimony. It is as if we need to be normalized by remembering that federal judges who are witnesses in this kind of thing, do not usually snap back after being asked questions by a u. S. Senator. However, offensive the questions may be. The exchange between kavanaugh and blumenthal was especially that way, john lemire is watching this. We have to suspend everything weve ever learned about congressional hearings for just what weve seen today. The number of times we said since june 2015 when donald trump announced his candidacy for president that weve never seen this before, we have lost count and another moment here. The constant interruptions and moments with sen
Kavanaugh, i just granted another extension to dr. Ford to decide if she wants to proceed with the statement she made lasts week to testify to the senate. She should decide so we can move on. I want to hear her. I hope you understand. Its not my normal approach to be decisive. Are they giving him a heads up, friends . A dm. The tweet was sent before midnight and in its own awkward way granted dr. Christine blasey ford, the woman accusing kavanaugh of Sexual Assault when both were teenagers, one more day to decide if she will testify before the senate committee. According to the New York Times she has until 2 30 today to decide, a deadline completely made up by chairman grassley and the republican majority. Another tweet last night grassley addressed dr. Ford writing five times now, we have granted extension for dr. Ford to decide if she wants to proceed with her desire stated one week ago that she wants to tell senate her story. Dr. Ford if you changed your mind, say so, so we can move
Scheduled for the spring. And theres roger stone, who has come out and said himself he looks like a mueller target. Well, tonight, im going to speak soon with my special holiday guests for all of that, but first lets get into another key witness, jerome coursy. I was able to interview him on the beat. In that interview, he admitted that he helped roger stone lie to congress about democratic email hacks during that 2016 election. This was a wide ranging interview. I began by asking him why he rejected the plea deal that was offered to him by bob muellers team. I felt the deal was fraudulent. It required me to lie and violate regulations and even commit fraud. I will not lie to keep myself out of jail, and i realize that i could go to jail for the rest of my life. Im 72 years old. I might die in jail, but im still making this decision. You think what youre doing today increases the risk that you will be charged, be convicted and die in jail . Yes, i do. When you look at this plea negotia
In for chuck todd. Welcome to meet the press daily and were one week out from the release of the Mueller Report and it is becoming increasingly clear the president will remain defiant and both are looking to 2020 for the ultimate vindication. The day after joe biden cast his candidacy as a mission to purge the nation of trump, the president delivered a red meat speech at the nra annual meeting and it felt like the first draft of the stump speech you could expect trump to be delivering throughout the 2020 campaign with prominent mentions of the russia investigation. They tried for a coup. It didnt work out so well. [ applause ] and i didnt need a gun for that one, did i . Spying, surveillance, trying for an overthrow and we caught em we caught em. Americas future has never been brighter and yet democrats have never been angrier, especially now that their collusion dilution has been exposed to the world as a complete and total fraud. The remarks came moments after he doubled down on the
That use even a mass shooting, even this horror as a kind of a backdrop for more political twitter trumpism. Let me read to you a somber account, this was the lead in todays new york times. Telling you that your president began a day set aside for healing by delivering a series of political grievances against liberals and the media, once again using twitter to exhibit the language thats prompted some in el paso and dayton to protest his visits after horrific shootings in these cities. This is a time that americans know is not normal. And as citizens confront these worst of horrors, we have to note that many and not just resistance folks but many across the ideological spectrum here felt if the president is going to break all decorum and rules, they will break with some decorum, too. Lets be clear. We can use clarity at times like this if nothing else. Before donald trump, it was a widely held nonpartisan tradition to welcome a president to any town, anyplace, any community rocked by th