remember that mick mulvaney stepped to the podium at the white house briefing room and essentially acknowledged a quid pro quo. and after that moment you ve got a statement from the department of justice and from bill barr saying we weren t aware about a quid pro quo. how uncomfortable must it be if you are the attorney general you ve said there s no crime here, and the chief of staff announces could this be a good lawyer? not a great person, but a good lawyer? because in the case of the mueller report he was able to skate. he said there s just enough wiggle room which he did. new york daily news there s a thousand witnesses saying they had a conversation with the president of ukraine holding him up. i think that s right, chris. i think that barr is reading the writing on the wall. it s obvious that the president will be impeached for conduct in this matter. in this matter for conduct
but the questioning on the democratic side also mostly didn t make sense because of republican interference with that questioning, and the simple fact which should be obvious by now, that most members of congress aren t very good at this they did not run for district attorney, they ran for the house of representatives and every once in a while they have to play district attorney in committee hearings, and generally for most of them, it doesn t go very well except for the people who have actually been prosecutors. and so for hours on end, it was a chaotic hearing with corey lewandowski becoming increasingly emboldened with his refusal to answer any question for which the answer was not already contained in the mueller report he was asked by several democrats to read passages of the mueller report and he repeatedly refused to do so. he zeroed in on a speech that
for which the answer was not already contained in the mueller report he was asked by several democrats to read passages of the mueller report, and he repeatedly refused to do so. congressman swalwell zeroed in on a speech that that donald trump dictated to him for attorney general jeff sessions to deliver about the mueller investigation while jeff sessions was recused from supervising or commenting on the mueller investigation. in the trump-written speech, jeff sessions would announce that the special prosecutor s investigation of the president is unfair, and the special prosecutor would only be allowed, from this point forward, to investigate the possibility of, quote, election meddling for future elections so that nothing can happen in future elections congressman eric swalwell asked corey lewandowski to read his notes of his conversation with
based on doj guidelines, that doesn t mean that the congress doesn t have the right to impeach. in fact, that is exactly where it should be taking place. congresswoman jackie speier, thank you for your time. really appreciate it. thank you, jake. let s chew over this with our experts. amanda, let me start with you. so one of the questions here is about the meeting that president trump had with lewandowski when he told him to tell jeff session, then attorney general, that to instruct sessions to tell the public that mueller s investigation is unfair, and that he s going to tell mueller to stop looking at things that happened in the past and instead look at the future. lewandowski said he didn t think the message was illegal but he didn t deliver the message. he just didn t deliver it because he was on vacation. yeah. somehow it just got lost in the mail. listen, it is clear from the mueller report he was a willing agent of obstruction, attempted obstruction because they didn t o
it increasingly clear in recent months since the delivery of the mueller report he was going to be pursuing the issue what man usaid, it sets clear parameters around it. it doesn t lock the house chair or judiciary in, what it does is sets the terms and rules and conditions under which this investigation would proceed. so i don t think it s a final determination of political decision in how they re going to move but what it says is that they re going to keep that option open. i m sure that it s going to make president trump furious because it means that, you know, there s no clearing of him despite his many, many efforts to claim complete and utter vilification. he wants to set a structure