documents to the archivists. that s what they did as soon as they realized what was the documents were there. and his team is cooperating fully with the review. again, there s a review happening by the doj. we re going to let the process move forward. just to follow up on the question. given the position you re holding right now, there are no assurances that you can provide that there s no other classified documents out there? yes, this is an ongoing process. i ll let the process continue. it s being reviewed by the department of justice and i m going to leave it there. you referenced the counsel s statements that there s limitations to what you can say at this point in time. do those limitations extend to everything beyond what the special counsel said monday night and what the president said last night? the white house counsel, my colleagues are here to answer
not move forward on an impeachment inquiry, but when i caught up with him an hour ago, i said, are you going to vote against impeachment inquiry? he said, we ll wait to see if anything changes between thousand and then. sdplz he s expected to be a no, fwult twa 2 that we vely. i m here in the studio with my panel of experts. i want to turn to gloria borger because you and i have sat in rules committees ask meetings plenty of times. i want to hear your actual thoughts, and whaet striking is as we ve seen this process move forward, it s been very partisan. the arguments be heard but the
but if you see more facts come out, if you see this process move forward, if the public changes a little bit over time, you might start to see some republican defections. so i think all of that is part and parcel of this strategy where you see a lot of the president s most vociferous defenders coming out today like you did in arguing about process. molly, it s great to have you. i guess i want to know about other disruptions the gop may try, and are they all going to work? is it possible they re going one way with disruptions while the numbers, as we just saw from kornacki, and polls matter in this area. yes. public awareness, public opinion is going the other way. well, first of all, the thing is how are the polls in the districts of those 31 democrats that won in seats that trump won in 2016? what are they hearing on the ground back home because as we ve seen, the nrcc has targeted those districts, and you can go to their website. and i ve talked to some folks at
threatened tariffs on mexico and the president just said would be foolish. kelly o donnell live on capitol hill. looks like the democrats want to thread the needle as they continue to do and turn the heat up on the president and without going through necessarily the divisive process of impeachment which the polls show overall the american people aren t so crazy about. so, they re finding other ways to do that by keeping pressure on in a day-to-day fashion and that includes a variety of things that the different committees can do it uses the subpoena power to compel key witnesses to provide documents or the potential of holding major figures like the commerce secretary and the attorney general in contempt if they don t cooperate. those sort of steps are happening and as you point out, a growing number of members who are voicing a desire to see the process move forward, although it s still roughly 15% or less of the full house.
with respecting the norms, and they feel like they should go at this flu those processes. and they are aggressively attacking kavanaugh and will sit in the hearing room today and tomorrow asking pointed questions to ultimately let the process move forward. gene robinson, when the documents were dumped last night, senator schumer said they couldn t possibly process this. the hearing will start in about two hours from now. and at the end of the day despite the announcement on friday of labor day weekend that the white house will withhold documents during the judge kavanaugh hearing, the republicans have the votes here. they have the votes and they re going to cram this through. just as a chiropractpractical m