investigating. sure. well, right now, mr. giuliani is private citizen. there are no charges pending against him. no restrictions on his travel. so if he wants to go to ukraine, chuck, maybe a really bad idea because he might be generating more evidence for prosecutors down the road. he s certainly free to travel. fair enough. it just seems as if he s almost inviting more scrutiny by doing this. i guess is the point i m making. that you tell me if you re in and i m not saying you but prosecutors, when they watch people take actions like this, i assume, if they if they sort of aren t taking if it appears they re not taking your question seriously, that kind of angers them, does it not? well, sure. but, you know, look. if you harken back to mueller investigation days, the president himself was an evidence machine. i mean, you read volume two of the mueller report on obstruction of justice. the president was generating
indeed, that s a voteable issue. voters can make up their minds about that. indeed, the house could have voted to censure president trump, the will of the house being that this was wrong. now they elevated this to impeachment which has its own rules, its own definite definit, articles of impeachment. i think nancy pelosi giving that speech, how this is a constitutional issue, this comes after three years of nonstop investigations of trump, the russian collusion narrative, the mueller report and now the american people are supposed to believe this simply isn t part of everything they ve been trying to do the last three years. i think it s a hard sell for her. paul: to underscore dan s point, bill, they re talking about adding an article of impeachment related to the mueller report on obstruction of justice. so there is a kind of sense that this is a lot of democrats would like this to be a kitchen sink impeachment. you throw in everything that we can against donald trump. yeah.
indeed, that s a voteable issue. voters can make up their minds about that. indeed, the house could have voted to censure president trump, the will of the house being that this was wrong. now they elevated this to impeachment which has its own rules, its own definite definit, articles of impeachment. i think nancy pelosi giving that speech, how this is a constitutional issue, this comes after three years of nonstop investigations of trump, the russian collusion narrative, the mueller report and now the american people are supposed to believe this simply isn t part of everything they ve been trying to do the last three years. i think it s a hard sell for her. paul: to underscore dan s point, bill, they re talking about adding an article of impeachment related to the mueller report on obstruction of justice. so there is a kind of sense that this is a lot of democrats would like this to be a kitchen sink impeachment. you throw in everything that we can against donald trump. yeah.
frame, i mean, part of the way that we have to think about how much time you and your committee will need is to imagine the scope of things you are going to look into. i mentioned at the top of the show half joking that it may be hard to figure out where to start. obviously the mueller report on obstruction of justice gives you ten different things to look into, the sorts of issues you were just describing, dangling pardons, profiting from his office, other abuses of power, even just today s news would give you five or six different places to start. do you think you ll have enough time to focus on what is going to be the most potent issues by the end of the year? i think we re going to have to. i mean, it s a matter of constitutional integrity, it s a matter of, you know, the future of our country and the separation of powers. so we re just going to have to make the time to do it. it is really interesting, as you noted, there are so many things to look at. personally i ve been trying
barr. now president trump is naming him as his top intelligence official. last week in that hearing with robert mueller, radcliffe made the case that robert mueller should never have written the second volume of the mueller report on obstruction of justice at all. now, that performance got president trump s attention, and even though dan coats departure has been in the tea leaves for some time now, it seems that this decision was made in the last several days. but the problem is, as you noted, republicans are pretty tepid on radcliffe. a few mentioned him even as they praised dan coats who is leaving the job. there is some concern that not only is radcliffe too political for the job, he clearly has taken president trump s view of this entire russia investigation, pushing for an investigation into the investigators. but he also has fairly limited intelligence experience. he s only been on the house intelligence committee since january. so there are a lot of questions now about where th