Today on inside politics, facts versus feelings. On paper new data that makes a clearcut case that the economy is good, any minute the president tries to bridge the gap between the stats and how people feel about socalled bidenomics. Plus the speak ers race gives s an early test of Donald Trumps sway with republicans. Jim jordan score d the former president s endorsement. The question is will it propel him to the front of the line to claim the gavel. And a Card Board Sigh thai Coop Submarined Nuclear Secrets. A new report sheds light on a story thats been confirmed by the Special Counsel prosecuting donald trump. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, the Biden Disconnect between whats happening and what you believe. Any moment were going to hear straight from the president of the United States, who is going to speak just hours after a new and very good jobs number report. Lets get straight to the white house where kayla toush is reporting. Put this i
know anything about it when he received the lucrative seat on the board when his father was vice-president. and from opposition research firm was on there, too. adam schiff alone gets to decide to can come to the hearing on wednesday. we didn t put down the names of people that they want to talk to, and this is just another example to the american people, they can call in whoever they want. they didn t have to submit a list to us, did they? next week s hearings will be the first dealing with impeachment since november of 1998 when the house prepared articles of impeachment for former president bill clinton. democrats are unlikely to approve the republican s list of witnesses. so far there s been no public comment from hunter biden. we re lucky to have you bring in a strong start. and former special assistant to the u.s. attorney general, he
the public hearings the first dealing with impeachment inquiry since november of 1998, that s when gop-led house prepared articles of impeachment for former president bill clinton. democrats unlikely to prove any of the republicans list of witnesses, gillian, so far no public comment from hunter biden. gillian. gillian: well, we will all eagerly stand by, waiting a commenting, lucas, let us know if you get one, thank you. leland: president trump heading to alabama today for the alabama lasu game but did sound pretty confident about impeachment. hi, ellison. president trump came out of the white house, he made a brief statement to reporters and did not take any questions, he ignored shouted questions about whether or not he believed hunter biden should testify, he then took marine one to joint base andrews an spoke to reporters traveling with him on marine one, on the tarmac just
that s danforth testifying to congress about that investigation and his findings. ahead of special counsel robert mueller testifying early tomorrow morning, the justice department now has essentially suggested that mueller s lucky to be allowed to be testifying at all, implying that they never let this sort of thing happen with people who have jobs like robert mueller s. well, the jack danforth tape tells us that that s not true. but how else should we think of mueller s testimony tomorrow in terms of how it fits into history? joining us now is nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. mr. beschloss, thanks so much for being here. it s great to have you here tonight. thank you, rachel. i was struck by the justice department letting robert mueller know in this sort of terse letter that he was basically lucky to be allowed in there. there is precedence of special counsels testifying to congress about their findings. absolutely. kenneth starr in november of 1998, a month be
sean: by the way, he said all he is going to do is repeat that.he absolutely. sean: do it accurately and i not have the attorney general bail him out in a joint statement later. karl rove, good to see you, thanks for being with us. here with reaction to all of the breaking news yeah, robert mueller agreed to testify. former independent counsel they changed the special counsel law, ken starr is with us. you worked under a very different very different circumstances. you didn t have an option as it relates to testifying. the issue, you are compelled to release this. interestingly, it was people like jerry nadler who didn t want your report to be public, although the law compelled it, and you took a lot of heat, if , recall correctly, mr. starr, fob doing your job. that s exactly right, sean. for me, it was the longest day back in november of 1998.