except you people. i get along with a lot of people. i have a tremendous relationship with president xi. nobody else has the deal we have. we have tens of billions of dollars from china coming in. lots of things are happening. we are moving along toward something that could be very historic. i get along with president putin. i get along with crown prince mohammed bin salman. reporter: all of this is the president s answer to the criticisms. when it comes to the kim meeting, it is not clear what president trump is getting out of the friendship in part because denuclearization talks haven t gone anywhere. it is not clear this meeting at the dmz, if it happens, would make that process move forward any faster. ana. abby phillip, thank you. joining us now is national
this report, the black and white letters, and teeny tiny footnotes are sufficiently dramatic. they realize the president is not going to go to jail after one day of testimony on capitol hill. this is all about building evidence. pelosi s view is you can t begin an impeachment proceeding until we have a body of evidence beyond what the mueller report shows. it s incumbent upon the congress, in her view, to build the evidence. that s why they are seeking all these documents. that s why they are looking in other areas, too, like financial records and tax returns and other areas where there could be some criminality by the president. they are going to keep pursuing this but there s an impatience level and her committee chairman growing very impatient because they are not getting a single witness or single document from the white house and they are exhausting their options here. that s why there s this push suddenly to begin impeachment right away. so many democrats are talking to are f
but this is about lying and obstruction evidence. so anna, i m going put you on the hot seat. what is he talking about? what s the buzz about that? and where does all of this leave us as we head into the weekend? clearly democrats want to hear more. they have been very hesitant from the leadership point of view to go down that track of impeachment. they are trying to kind of pull back some of the troops who are champing at the bit of that to have the process move in that direction. so i think what s going to be interesting is what happens in the next hearing, what comes out in terms of collusion and in terms of what the president knew, when he knew it. and his family as well. you know, mr. cohen is really starting to put bread crumbs out there for the congress to start to put this impeachment proceedings in place. yeah. and one of those series of bread couples leads to weisslberg.
and he understood that. he didn t do it by bluster. often he did it by sort of holding back and letting the process move. he specifically said, howard fineman, he let gorbachev know he wasn t going to rub his nose it it but at the time of his re-election and his attempt at being re-elected, the failures in the economy, as would be the case today, seemed bigger and more important than the role that george h.w. bush had to play in the strengthening of nato and the west. right. i think his achievements in what i think will be recorded by historians as one of the great one-term presidencies. his achievements were things that would take a long time to bear fruit. whether it was the peaceful reunification of germany and the glory years afterwards in eastern europe as they got out from under the yoke of the old soviet union and the economy, as others have pointed out.
statements, while still wanting to see a process move forward at a professional level to reduce our existential nuclear threats. former secretary ernest moniz, thank you. thank you, chris. who will save your soul? that s a question being asked of washington insiders today. we ll talk about that next on andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. introducing e trade personalized investments professionally managed portfolios customized to help meet your financial goals. you ll know what you re invested in and how it s performing. so you can spend more time floating about on your inflatable swan. [ding]