does he have what it takes? we will tackle the issues in california, a state that will have a big influence in 2020. at 10:00 p.m. eastern tonight, kamala harris joins lawrence o donnell for a town hall in south carolina. that s hardball for now. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in read any interesting tweets lately. the lone republican calling for impeachment of donald trump takes his argument to the people. it is a difficult process to remove fortune from office. how justin amash made his argument to the voters of michigan. it s important that we do our job as a congress. why there are not more in congress following him. that are we not allow misconduct to go undeterred and not just say someone can violate
things like that to basically mislead people about a statement he made. things like that to me reflect incredible dishonesty and really harm the office of the presidency. you see countries around the world where people do not respect the rule of law and they don t care about the character of their leaders. they don t care about the ethics of their leaders. in these countries, all that matters is your person is in power and as long as your person is in power, that person is allowed to do whatever they want. you saw what happened to me from our so-called leader, kevin mccarthy. i read the mueller report and i m sure he did not read it. i stated what it actually says and he resorted to attacks and other various attacks that have nothing to do with the mueller report. this is the kind of leadership in quotes that we have in congress. amash started with a twitter
formal beginning of this process is important not only because of what s in the mueller report, but because of the behavior of the president engaging in an ongoing cover up from prevent congress from doing its work. i was thinking about this a lot over the weekend. the substantive principal question. do you think the president committed impeachable offenses and putting all politics aside, he should be impeached for that. the political ramifications where they don t have to take into account for 20 years. you probably wouldn t do it. that would be defensible. what do you think about the relationship? how do you think about the tracks? i think this is a moment, a grave moment for our country. we have to set aside political considerations for this reason. no one really knows how this will play out in the end. people who pretend that are making a mistake. you don t know how it will work out and there are risks on both
philosoph philosopher, omar little of the series, the wire. you come at the king. you best not miss. i do worry about that. elaborate on that. if he is impeach and acquitted in the senate, it strengthens or emboldens the president. i am afraid of that. i m afraid it will make congress look impotent and further damage the institution. i m not opposed to impeachment. we have to move forward with investigations and nancy pelosi is taking the right track. let s get all of the information out there and do the investigations. then we will see how to proceed. it s funny you bring that up and dealing with sanctions over the weekend. one of the points was the threat of reimposition proved to be bigger and way more heavily than actuality. one wonders whether the threat of impeachment that is always off stage can function in a similar way with respect to the president or whether he
much. i don t agree with him on a lot of issues, but i respect his courage and respect the conclusion he has come to and there are a growing number of members of my caucus who think the time has come to open impeachment inquiry and consider whether or not it s appropriate to move for the. i like justin read the entire mueller report and it s hard to are the that report and not come to a conclusion that the president committed offenses that are impeachable. obstruction of justice is one of them. in addition to the president s behavior that is detailed in the mueller report, try to convince witnesses to lie and fire the special counsel and the list goes on and on. the president since the release of the report has engaged in an ongoing cover up to prevent congress from getting to the truth and acting as if he is above the law. nobody is above the law and the opening of an inquiry, the