calling in from other countries and whistle blowers are talking about compromising who he has deemed a political enemy, this is serious. this is very, very serious. and we have to investigate it. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi weighing in in a statement, saying, quote, if the president has done what has been alleged, he is stepping into a dangerous mine field with serious repercussions for his administration and our democracy. the stone walling must end immediately and the whistle blower must be provided with every protection guaranteed by the law. i think, ed, it s safe to say the presidented is trying to make this go away. democrats are trying to bring it into the light of day. the former acting attorney general said he thinks the substance of this will probably be known by early next week so we ll see where it goes from here. ed: thank you, john roberts. let s bring in david west, donna
senator elizabeth warren says the first thing she s going to do if she gets into office is to take on the swamp. her plan seeks to limit the lawmakers and federal judges from serving on corporate boards and wants to require the irs to release tax returns for all presidential candidates and members of congress. joining me nbc news ali vitaly. washington post and msnbc political contributor ashley parker and washington post political reporter philip bump. ali vitaly, how exactly is this going to work? what s warren proposing. reporter: i guess, when you say drain the swamp, it does sound a little bit that way. so, really the things you laid out are important but she does try to get at things we ve seen president trump do during his time in office. she said presidents and vice presidented, for example, need to put companies they own in a
we should be most on guard when we believe that our own uncomfortable circumstances justify ignoring principles respected by our predecessors. rosenstein believes it is as relevant now it is it was two years ago when he wrote it. president trump writing, quote, the disasters ig report on james comey shows in the strongest of terms how unfairly i and tens of millions of great people who support me were treated. our right to liberties were illegally stripped away by this dishonest fool. we should be given our stolen time back. inspector general found that comey did not leak classified information to the media, though michael horowitz said comey did leak plenty of other information including quotes from the president that he had no right to share. the doj announced at the beginning of this month that he was not going seek prosecution of comey. the presidented saying this month comey got off easy as a result tweeting the fact that james comey was not prosecuted
criticizing leaders who demonize immigrants. well, this morning just moments ago president trump respond insisting these types of shootings happened long before he was presidented including when obama was president, more specifically the policy of grievance which he does, he s speaking through fox news speaking through him asking did george bush every condemn president obama after sandy hook. back with us, yeah there might be a little bit of an apples of and oranges problem here. because largely speaking no one ever said president obama was a racist or accused him of fueling anti-immigrant rhetoric, correct? right, because he didn t do it, and that was the meat of obama s criticism. and this is a former president who has been loathe to get in the mix here with this president because he knows sort of the blow back you saw there from president trump singling out
nonpowerful woman. sean: you would know a not intelligent, talentless person really well.t that s low, even for you. coming up, the president s attorney rudy giuliani. i will excuse rosie but here you are, the president having a great time, saying goodbye, a kiss on the cheek, slow it down, i will re-rack it and show it. this is.n, this is every second, every minute, every hour, of every day, attack the president. lucky we have the footage. some people just believe it, and i think it s because the media, a lot of the media, has created this hysteria about the president.ed i mean, the whole mueller investigation was infused with that. this investigation never should have happened. they printed the wildest, craziest lies, and they never apologized for it. so i think people feel empowered to say anything they want. i mean, something like that t should have serious sanctions