and capitol hill, the house committee is wasting no tomb. the eight members holding their first meeting late yesterday. the appointment of liz cheney is drawing fierce reaction. ken mccarthy is denying reports that he threatened to strip fellow republicans of committee assignments if they accept an appointment from speaker pelosi. i m not threatening anybody with committee assignments. what i m saying is it was shocking to me that if a person is a republican, they get their commit assignments from the republican conference. for somebody to accept committee assignments from speaker pelosi, that is unprecedented. shocking to me that any person in government irrelevant of party wouldn t want the
head and said i just don t understand how republicans aren t all supporting this. many republicans supported the commission that are in the problem so many solvers caucus. and i don t understand whye can t hold insurrectionists accountable and move the country forward. let s talk where else you need bipartisan. on infrastructure. at this point speaker pelosi is saying no on the bipartisan infrastructure deal unless a big reconciliation package is lunged. but if you link it, you lose republicans. and what i ve been saying sense we worked with our is that the colleagues, democrats and republicans, we put out a very similar proposal. we should vote on this and have an end vote. and the good news is that we have ten republicans in the
president trump. and it s now ten days before the senate returns to capitol hill, presumably to take up impeachment. and yet, speaker pelosi says she won t send the articles of impeachment to the senate until she sees the details of a trial process. meantime, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and minority leader chuck schumer remain at odds over the terms of that trial. with no word of any negotiations resuming anytime soon. so for now, we are stuck exactly where we ve been for more than a week. in an impeachment purgatory with a whole lot of unknowns. will speaker pelosi s strategy work? how quickly will a senate trial happen? will we hear from witnesses who didn t testify in the house process? and how will all of this affect the presidential election? to help kick things off, i m joined by former california senator barbara boxer, who was a juror in former president bill clinton s impeachment trial nearly 21 years ago. she is now the host of the boxer podcast. and with me here in
turn it around. democrats should focus on the fact that mcconnell has still not put forward any rules or procedures for how this trial will proceed in a manner that is not rigged. in a manner that does not already exonerate trump. that s going to be really focused on the facts and getting the truth out to americans. because that s what s missing here right now. we have mcconnell essentially stonewalling the public from knowing the realities from the people closest to trump. the people who would have the latest information and the direct understanding of how he interacted with ukraine. how he maneuvered things within the white house, as well as omb to withhold aid. and then ultimately release it, right? you re missing the biggest actors here and that s what mcconnell is looking to stonewall and obstruct. how do democrats keep this momentum? first, i want to talk about speaker pelosi. anyone with a heartbeat and a pulse knows she did not want to go down this road. so for the republ
to pull from is completely limited in comparison to some of their democratic potential running mates. you have a far more diverse group of voters. so you have to watch those things, jeff. and i think the majority leader is going to do so. and in doing so, i expect him to say if you have to be somewhat critical, i m going to give you the room to do so. yeah. juanita and senator boxer, i m going to put this question to both of you. the strategist and the practitioner. there is this asymmetry in our politics, right? where democrats there is an expectation that democrats are intellectually honest and that they re like, they re honest, consistency to their honesty. that republicans just don t necessarily have to put up with. right? it s just it s just it s just the way it is. and so the reason i say that is because already you re hearing from republicans make the point speaker pelosi said impeaching president trump was imperative. it had to happen urgently. and yet, she s withhold