problems. why is this what congress and the democrats are coming back to here when they come back from recess, as the impeachment caucus grows? and part of it is the strange saga of michael cohen. and i really wonder what you think, now that we ve taken it all in, it would be hard for people to understand at the beginning of this or if you saw this as a movie, how much ended up landing on mr. cohen s shoulders, including one of the longer sentences affiliated with the mueller probe. of course, it was handed off to new york. when he basically, apparently, did a lot of what was asked of him, first to help trump, some of which he later confessed to illegally, and what was asked of him by the congress. for context, we put together for your analysis, joyce, what donald trump said. he basically said, to use a common phrase, you better ask somebody, you better ask michael cohen, and ultimately the congress did. here was that condensed story. did you know about the $130,000 payments to storm
is a legalistic thing, but it s not strictly legal, because we re talking about congress acting in its capacity under the constitution to do what amounts to the indictment of a president when they decide to impeach, if they ever do. and this is something speaker pelosi has obviously, as i have mentioned, she is the key decision maker on that piece of it. for context, this is how she sounded before this week, before things hit the majority caucus, as we re calling it. take a look. reporte if a majority of a caucus wants to go forward wan impeachment inquiry, would you go for it? it s not even close in our caucus. but eventually you know what, why are we speculating on hypotheticals? duncan, hypothetical season is over. she does have this whether it s wind at her back or pressure coming at her depending on how you put it, how does that affect, in your view, the balancing of whatever evidence democrats have if they want to go forward? well, look, in addition to the politic
we re the kirby family, and we are usaa members for life. get your auto insurance quote today. let s start with a question. how do you know when any gun control pressure out there is working if the united states senate blocks most of the attempts to get congress to act? well, tonight, here s a new sign of some shift. the largest retailer in the united states, walmart, pulling back on some gun sales and halting ammunition sales for assault-style rifles and handguns. and this store popular across the south and midwest is also drawing a line by banning its own customers from opening carrying when they shop inside walmart. the decision comes in the wake of two deadly shootings at walmart stores last month, including the shooting at the el paso store, which was one of the deadliest mass shootings in american history. this weekend, there was another shooting rampage, this time in west texas with seven people killed.
the gun safety battles including heat on mitch mcconnell. neal katyal is here later. but our top story tonight is this new intensity in congressional opposition to trump, including developments in a probe that some democrats say could actually change the future of the trump presidency. democrats in congress are now preparing for what will be their last major legislative session before all eyes turn, of course, to the 2020 race next year. and now i can tell you they re outlining a new way they want to check president trump. now, the context here is something you know about, it s something you know from your calendar. summer is over. when democrats left for this summer recess, the members in their caucus calling for impeachment were in the minority. and now, they are the majority of the democratic caucus, which may explain why congressional democrats are pushing these newly aggressive probes into some admittedly familiar topics. investigative hearings on hush money payments that donald
michael cohen s conduct. and we have still not heard that full story. what was the evidence that was based on, in fullness, what were they thinking about, and who else was involved? we know that there were members of the trump organization, at least one, who became cooperators for the government. we don t know the extent of that cooperation of what resulted from it. so i think for critics, who are talking about what is a political argument, that this comes to, or maybe a substance argument that it s all been gone over in the past, there is still, as i started out by saying, fresh information that can be obtained here. the real question is whether congress will be able to obtain it when trump has successfully thrown up road blocks in so many areas. if they succeed, this could be compelling evidence of the president s criminality and the real question will be does the american public care or is it all baked in at this point. right. is it overly baked in? and you lay it out there as you