house judiciary will vote thursday to formalize procedures for future hearings related to the impeachment investigation. and while this doesn t mean a formal inquiry has been launched, it will mark the first time the committee has taken a formal vote on impeachment. this coming after the committee has expanded its investigation. the new york times reports the committee is preparing to rapidly broaden the substance of the inquiry this fall beyond the investigation into any role on the agenda for new scrutiny for mr. trump s role in illegal hush payments to women who said they had affairs with him and whether his resorts have illegally profited from government spending. the washington post puts it in historical context saying it reasonables something the judiciary committee did in 1973, two weeks after the saturday night massacre when richard nixon fired several justice department officials for refusing to. joining our conversation j of
georgetown university, she joins us again at the table. former republican congressman, now an independent, david jolly, and nbc and msnbc national analyst john heilemann. i want to read some more from your superb reporting and then have you take us through it. you write on display were all the characteristic traits of the trump presidency. the yearning ambition for the grand prize, the endless quest to achieve what no other president has achieved. the volatile mood swings, and the tribal infighting. my question when i got to that was tribal infighting, was that in afghanistan or inside his cabinet? what was the reference? [ laughter ] well, yeah. believe it or not in this case we are talking about the president s cabinet. i want to make sure i give due credit to my colleagues peter baker and mujib who were also bylines on that story. but, yes, there are tribal
for what he s trying to get done on this medium but they have done it longer, they re very strong. the reality, on the actual merits of the subject, john legend has been working on criminal reform when president trump was trying to take apart the five. you ll lose that fight not just on social media but on the question of substance. that donald trump is really a leader of all the people. he really cares about the his country men and women. it s just all about him consistently. from afghanistan and wanting to take credit for an interim peace deal that he botched by inviting the taliban to tea at camp david to this. everything has to be about him or you have him hate-tweeting at chrissy teigen. i thought, too, if you want to run on criminal justice reform being meaningful to you,
republicans in d.c., whether it s fundraising, grabbing drinks, getting dinner. this is where republicans do business and hang out and hold fundraisers and things of that nature. it s stunning because it s again never happened before. but it s been the major cultural shift in d.c. over the last couple years when it comes to going out, dining, and things of that nature. elise jordan, i completely agree. and i think this is one of those things where the joke is on us. we ask this is beto, why do you ask questions you know the answer to. has donald trump corrupted congress? of course he has. has he corrupted the cabinet? of course he has. has he corrupted the air force? it turns out we will find out. the simplest answer is probably the right one here. to quote casablanca, of all the gin joints in the world, just how coincidental this golf course in this country just all these air force people just start to show up. it s what showed up on trim adviser. it got a really high rating.
things play. and, in fact, this is a little bit in the realm of speculation. but what would you get from this meeting? i mean, we are saying headlines, but it s the sort of holy bleep factor of it, right? which reminds me so much of this decision he took to go meet with kim jong-un who, you know, now we see perhaps slightly differently. but remember, and that s a complicated question we can return to. but remember how we thought about kim jong-un before he ever came out and met trump? it was murderous dictator, killed members of his own family, dispatched assassins with nerve agent into a major airport to kill his half brother. now it s sort of this slightly goofy guy who waddles across the board with trump at the dmz and they have but that s the holy bleep factor. he loves that. to your point, i was thinking as david was talking about otto warmbier s parents who when he did some of those holy bleep factors because i think david s