house, or a veteran member of congress like mr. cummings, these could jeopardize the white house s ability to continue to build relationships this fall as they try to go after issues like prescription drug reform. boyd, quickly on this, how big of a deal is this? will we forget about this in another week with the president potentially coming up with another statement or another move here? i think you re right, richard, and i think this is what the problem in our country is. the more we have a political polarization problem, we have a contempt problem where we dehumanize and weaponize everything. so on the one hand, we probably won t remember this as it continues to mount, but we should. the american people need to look themselves in the mirror and say, what am i sending out to my neighbors, to my community, because this will not be solved by this president, this white house or anyone in washington. this starts in our neighborhoods, our families and our local communities. and if i
of all of these things. and we have excellent presidential candidates out there. and we continue to make progress on the real policy purposes that we arrived here for. we had a great hearing today in the oversight committee about prescription drug prices and we have every confidence to move forward and hopefully the republicans will join us in moving forward on prescription drug reform. we passed a $15 minimum wage hike to go into effect over the next few years. so we are moving forward even at the same time that we are doing all due diligence with respect to our oversight responsibilities. some of your pro-impeachment democratic colleagues like ted lieu for example of california who was here in the situation room with us and they will go along with whatever the speaker nancy pelosi decides but the chairman jerry nadler isn t ruling out opening an impeachment inquiry without her blessing. how do you see it? well, you know, i ve thought from the beginning that
mitch mcconnell s leadership of the united states senate has been a big fat waste and he has transformed the senate into little more than a place where good ideas go to die. those are not my words. these are the words of minnesota senator tina smith who joins me now from capitol hill. senator, this is part of an op-ed that you wrote for cnn.com. you say that democrats and republicans can work together if senator mcconnell would just let you. have your republican colleagues told thaw? i hear this all the time from my democratic and republican cheegs. you know, we are trying to figure out how to pass prescription drug reform that would lower the cost of prescription drugs. there are a lot of things that we want to work on together, but the united states senate right now is where good ideas go to die. mitch mcconnell himself said that he wanted the senate to be in the personnel business and that s all we do every day, practically.
compromised by his ties to russian ollie gashiigarchs and . michael cohen is going off to jail. there aren t too many people left. everything is in plain sight. we need to put it together into a coherent narrative and explain how the government of the united states has been taken over by interests that are hostile to the best interests of the american people. we have been making progress on the things we got elected to do. we just passioned the expansion of the universal criminal and mental background check for gun purchases so we re picking up people who were getting through the private gun show loophole, getting through the internet loophole, getting through, you know, the parking lot at 7-eleven loophole. we re making government work for the people again. we re working on prescription drug reform. we re working on health care. this is what we should be doing. we ve got to stop the idea that government belongs to the
of the next year ahead of the 2020 election. and with regard to prescription drug reform and drug pricing and infrastructure, that has always been the talk of divided government. but so far, very few examples from the white house or from congressional democrats of how they could actually forge a compromise on those big fronts. os cynthia, i want to move of capitol hill and take you to new york city. michael cohen s attorney lanny davis isl calling for more investigations into that hush money paid to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels. i want to share this. new york state attorney general based alone on these trump personal hush money reimbursement checks to cohen while he was president probably havede jurisdiction to launch a investigation of mr. trump. indeed arguably the moin d.a. could seek a criminal indictment of trump while he is still president since the d.a. is not literally subject to the department of justice memo. that s right. and all of these things coming