this is interesting, you say that s a bad idea. let me be clear, i m not endorsing nancy pelosi. if i were a house member look at your cup. this is a fire pelosi cup. we launched the fire pelosi campaign the night of the obamacare vote. the reason is she was very effective. if she had been ineffective, we would have been more inclined to run against obama in 2010. she helped us quadruple the funding goals we had for the campaign. you both covered it, a bus tour of 178 stops in the lower 48 states. she was incredibly effective. she s amazingly effective in her role as speaker, as a whip. which i say she shouldn t hamstring herself, if you announce in advance you re a lame duck, people will treat you very differently. they re already looking for the next best thing. as we saw with paul ryan, so much of the lastier and a half has been about who the next
to lawsuits. the families very much feel saudi arabia is being protected. with your extensive knowledge of saudi arabia, what is your concern with the president siding with saudi arabia and what you feel has already been the deck stacked for them? well, our lawsuit goes on. it is still active in the southern district of new york. we re not going anywhere until these families get justice. the president s behavior toward the khashoggi killing is baffling, inexplicable, and i m sure that the new congress will want to get to the bottom of it. first of all, he, the president, keeps repeating that we re getting hundreds of billions of dollars of business from saudi arabia. that s baloney. there s simply no truth to it. what he s talking about are some defense contracts that were initiated in the obama administration, and we have still only seen only a fraction
thanksgiving holiday is great, and that will be a little bright spot for some. absolutely and we are thinking about all of them and wishing all of them the best thanksgiving possible under these circumstances. cnn s nick watt. thank you very much. we appreciate. . coming up, more on the breaking news, president trump and chief justice john roberts get into a war of words about whether the u.s. judiciary is independent or whether there are trump judges and obama judges, plus new revelations in special counsel mule per s russia investigation. trump s attorney, rudy giuliani, tells cnn mueller may have more questions. we re about to move. karate helps. relieve some of the house-buying. stress. at least you don t have to worry about homeowners insurance. call geico. geico. helps with. homeowners insurance? been doing it for years. i m calling geico right now. good idea! get to know geico. and see how easy homeowners and renters insurance can be.
into the the president has a line of vision into the investigation through whitaker if he and whitaker choose to use it as such. what i m saying is, if that provides information to the president which can be used to obstruct the investigation or hinder it or result in starving it to death, that in itself could well be if my opinion would be obstruction of justice and trouble for both mr. whitaker and the president. while i have you here, i want to ask you about saudi arabia. the president siding with saudi arabia when it comes to the murder of jamal khashoggi, a washington post journalist, a resident of the u.s. it s important we say this. you represented 9/11 families who have wanted to sue saudi arabia but have been unable to do so because of the actions of the u.s. government. i still do. you still represent them. president obama vetoed the idea saying this would open the u.s.
john roberts said in this statement today. it s just extraordinary. we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing about of them. that independent judiciary is something we should be thankful for. and the president followed up on twitter with a number of tweets. sorry chief justice john roberts, but you do have indeed have obama judges, and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. we should point out, sometimes trump judges go against trump. but susan hennessey, what do we make of this exchange here? first of all, it s pretty remarkable and it s remarkably petty to have the president of the united states tweeting insults, essentially at the chief justice. i think it s sort of worth noting that. there is nothing about justice roberts statement that is all that extraordinary