we re following breaking news. president trump erupts and misleads as the house impeachment investigation is rapidly escalating. he s been on a day long rampage, blasting the impeachment probe and the whistle-blower complaint that launched it as a hoax, and this, i m goequoting the presid of the united states right now. he had the whole thing is, in his word, bullshit. he also ratcheted up his attacks on house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff accusing him without evidence of helping to write the whistle-blower s allegations, which schiff s panel flatly denies. also breaking, we re standing by for information on an urgent briefing on capitol hill by the state department s inspector general and the mysterious packet he turned over to investigators. this hour i ll talk to chairman elliott engel. his staffers were inside the
from mayor pete struggling to stay relevant at this juncture in the polls to say i m worried about him losing it in effect. but the larger point is we have a president determined to be the center of everything in his administration, and it s really a point of his own isolation because he wants to run foreign policy. he wants to predict the storm s path. everything has to come through him. i think it becomes dangerous particularly for any administration, particularly when your so insecure and so impulsive as he is and he uses social media as he does, it diminishes the impact of what a president says when a president deliberately lies or misleads or speaks so much, tries to overwhelm the circuits as it were to be the center of every story. it means the president s word doesn t matter as much, and that has implications for some of the bigger issues for of course emergency preparation is one.
former congressman moran. this is the 400th anniversary of africans coming to jamestown in chains. we ll commemorate that later on this year. do we really want that picture that juxtaposition, if you will, of africans coming to our shores in chains and a governor in 2019 who misleads us and misdirectses us about blackface? what would you say to him, if he s watching? i say, ralph, you know, i love you like a brother, but it s time for you to resign because it s time to think about what s best for the commonwealth, and what s best for the party. that means resignation. congressmanaceachin. and joining us, gop strategist and a daily beast columnist and host of dean and b
suspicions when the president so consistently conceals, misleads, and lies on the topic. if you can t trust him on the topic, of course you re going to be suspicious. that s my point. okay. and that s a fair point, by the way, as you and i have talked about in the past. i have always supported the mueller investigation. i want it to go forward. but at the end of the day, chris, you have to be able to say what is the evidence to support the suspicions and not just allegations, actual evidence. what would you like to see? you have said that before. if you saw real proof you would be in favor of the committee. no matter who is leading it. what would be proof? what do you need to see? i would say what evidence do you see at this point that would support that and we have seen two years now, in fact, more than two years of allegations which were not proved or disproved. we have seen leaks and reporting which was proven not to be true and
how you can say that you know that this president was working with the russians. i never said that. i never said anything close to that. i ll send you the transcript, but make your point. that was my understanding of what you said. i just don t see that. you don t see what. we don t see evidence where someone could credibly claim this president was working with the russians. thank you for bringing up the point. i said you can t question the investigators for having suspicions when the president so consistently conceals, misleads, and lies on the topic. if you can t trust him on the topic, of course you re going to be suspicious. that s my point. okay. and that s a fair point, by the way, as you and i have talked about in the past. i have always supported the mueller investigation. i want it to go forward. but at the end of the day, chris, you have to be able to say what is the evidence to support the suspicions and not just allegations, actual evidence. what would you lik