When Richard Nixon was being investigated by a Special Prosecutor and by congress, it was a special investigation in congress. While most republicans tried to look at the mounting evidence against president nixon as favorably as possible, none of them ever tried to say anything like this. Just remember what youre seeing and what youre reading is not whats happening. Republicans did not try to deny reality during the investigation of Richard Nixon and eventually it was a group of republican senators who went to the white house to tell president nixon to his face that he should resign immediately because the House Of Representatives would definitely vote to impeach him based on the latest evidence and the United States senate would easily reach a twothirds Majority Vote to convict and remove president nixon from office in an impeachment trial. Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Thats what you heard devin nunes say. If sessions wo
support from republicans. nobody else but desantis outside of mid single digits at best, so just no indication here. in fact, this quinnipiac poll i m talking about that came out in the last hour. they had a survey out three weeks ago, too. so they have a before and after indictment look, and no change. no change. so trump s standing among republicans. there is no evidence yet and in a week or so, it s not been quite a week since this indictment became news, no indication he s taking a hit there. where you do see potential for a hit is the general election, that quinnipiac poll, again, i m mentioning in the last hour, it tested biden versus trump. it has biden at 48. it has trump at 44. when quinnipiac took the same test three weeks ago, pre-indictment, it was biden 46, trump 44. if there is a real shift there, even if two points away from
the two ukranians who got arrested last week founded. if that is the case and at the same time we re hearing this new narrative that it was a shadow foreign policy agenda that rudy giuliani was working on, all that will come out okay, no big deal? no, that would be a very big deal. the real question ultimately, what is rudy giuliani? is he acting as a diplomat, is he a private businessman, is he a lawyer? but if he is a lawyer, to whom is he providing legal services, is he providing them to the president or these two gentlemen, is he their criminal defense attorney or pre-indictment type criminal defense attorney? and if he is their attorney, the fact that he may have had knowledge of some bad activities is pretty common for criminal defense activities like me. the key, and the crux of whether or not he has any liability is whether or not he participated in or assisted clients to commit criminal activity. and that is what the government will look at, the money and the payments and wh
father. then putting even more pressure on the father to possibly testify or reveal something about his relationship with the five other republican members of congress who he got to invest in this stock that he was charged with insider trading. yeah. you know, a lot of open questions on this one. you would expect prosecutors to have typically approached collins and his son pre-indictment to see if they could work a deal at that stage. to seeing them both together in this indictment possibly is a signal that collins wasn t willing to cooperate, at least not pre-indictment to spare his son from being indicted and going through this charging process. it is a little bit difficult to know what to make about collins possibility as a witness against other congress people. he looks like more of the big fish in this one to me than they do. and typically you don t see a big fish testifying against lesser participants in a
you would expect prosecutors to have typically approached collins and his son pre-indictment to see if they could work a deal at that stage. to seeing them both together in this indictment possibly is a signal that collins wasn t willing to cooperate, at least not pre-indictment to spare his son from being indicted and going through this charging process. it is a little bit difficult to know what to make about collins possibility as a witness against other congress people. he looks like more of the big fish in this one to me than they do. and typically you don t see a big fish testifying against lesser participants in a conspiracy. but again we don t know how everything stacks up here and we don t know who else collins might be able to offer testimony against. so a lot of shoes left to drop off the centipede in this one. and, david, up there in up state new york in the western part of the state near buffalo where you live in the rochester area, part of the same area, chris collins no