looking at the obstruction issue. here the president, like everye. other past president, has exerted executive privilege. okay?te they don t like it when there is a dispute between the legislative branch and the executive branch. that would be the role of the judicial branch, which is tore resolve the disputes between the other two branches of government, but they are in such a rush to do this that they didn t want to give the courts any time or perhaps, even worse, they feared what the courts would decide. this is a thoroughly political exercise. this is not like a courtrooms experience, it s a political exercise. they ve been trying to do this for three years, finally screwed up the courage to do this. it looks like it may be backfiring on them, particularly in swing districts that the speaker s party managed to win in order to get to the majority. most of the nervousness i see on this issue with the politicians, since it is a political process,
point out this appears to be weak. looking at the obstruction issue. here the president, like every other past president, has exerted executive privilege. okay? they don t like it when there is a dispute between the legislative branch and the executive branch. that would be the role of the judicial branch, which is to resolve disputes between the other two branches of government, but they are in such a rush to do this that they didn t want to give the courts any time or perhaps, even worse, they feared what the cour courts would decide. this is not like a courtroom experience, it s a political exercise. they ve been trying to do this for three years, finally screwed up the courage to do this. it looks like it may be backfiring, particularly in swing districts, that the speaker s party managed to win and get to the majority. most of the nervousness i see on this issue with politicians, since it is a political process,
obviously for don mcgahn he doesn t want to do that. he s waiting to hear how the courts ultimately decide. but what makes him so important is that he is one of the most prominent witnesses in the entire mueller investigation, certainly as it related to the obstruction issue. he spent 30 hours with mueller. so there is a lot of information that they think that he could provide. and they want this information because they say that it could help them in their process, certainly the impeachment because they say this shows that the president past and previous interactions certainly when it comes to influence from foreign countries and also the obstruction issue and so they re saying they need this information. this is all now obviously in the appeals court. we ll see. they do say, kate, as you point out, that, listen, if there is information they could get regarding mcgahn, that they could use that could potentially lead to more articles of impeachment, they would do that, politically i do
will coordinate with the president s lawyers, they would be no difference between us on how to do this. you raise the issue on what if you have witnesses much like the president of prosser s counsel may or may not decide they want to have witnesses. the case is so weak. we know how it s going to end. nope chance the president is going to be removed from office but my hope is there will be no single republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment. sean, it wouldn t surprise me if we got one or two democrats. it looks to me over at the house the republicans seem to be solid and the democrats seem to be divided. i think you rightly point out, this is very weak. we look for example at the obstruction issue. here, the president like every other past president has exerted executive privilege. they don t like it when there is a dispute between the second of
you have witnesses much like the president s counsel may or may not decide they want to have witnesses. the case is so weak. coming over from the house. we know how it s going to end. nope chance the president is going to be removed from office but my hope is there will be no single republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment. sean, it wouldn t surprise me if we got one or two democrats. it looks to me over at the house the republicans seem to be solid and the democrats seem to be divided. i think you rightly point out, this is very weak. we look for example at the obstruction issue. here, the president like every other past president has exerted executive privilege. they don t like it when there is a dispute between the second of legislative branch and the