it s racism. i don t know if he s ever been there. congressman cummings has been powerful in congress, particularly since democrats are back to majority. and trump has been making clear since he became the nominee. he was going to do the investigations, he was going to do powerfully against him. the congressman of color, no doubt about that. he is lashing out to the ones that are the most critical of him. this is a response to the fact that these investigations continue. valley jaruerie jarrett is join us later in the show. one of president obama s confidants. up next, rumors about robert mueller circulated for months
rodent-infested mess. and this morning, the twitter attack continues. to be attacked by a president issuing racist tweets is beyond disgusting. a growing backlash to the president s racist rhetoric. 149 african-americans serve in the obama administration say, enough is enough. two of the former staffers, including valerie jarrett, is going to be here. and new reporting on robert mueller s reluctance to testify, as more house democrats back impeachment proceedings. it s clear in his report, he couldn t find evidence of obstruction. they couldn t find anything. that guy is a good enough lawyer. and i sit down with steve bullock, just days before the seconds presidential debate in detroit. being a governor, being someone that governs in a state where the majority of the republican legislator, gives you
him there. i think one of the things we want to keep in mind, in terms of performance, is to prosecute a case in public. as mueller said from the start, i m not going to be saying anything beyond what is in the report. the idea of talking about this, in terms of how compelling he was, i m going to tell you what s in the report. to me, the tone was like, disappointed that you didn t read this thing. how surprising was it that somebody was trying to get some insight into this. was there more of a sense that bob mueller was there in those conference rooms, hearing what witnesses had to say. it wasn t surprising to me that he didn t sit in on interviews. this functioned like a u.s. attorney s office. and the u.s. attorney himself is not going to be sitting in on interviews of witnesses, even if it is a small team.
a different perspective. after seven hours of hearings, one part of robert mueller s testimony clearly resonated with republicans. senate republicans blocked two election security bills and a cyber security measure. that s if robbers knocked down your door and ransacked the house, your response is, i learned my lesson, no doors. scott golden, the former chair of the national bar association. lynette lopez, and gabe is a national correspondent for new york magazine. we re going to start with the city of baltimore this morning, striking back, as president trump s sinner the salvo continues. attacking elijah cummings and the district he represents, brings the total to ten. the reaction to baltimore, nancy pelosi calling the president s tweets racist attacks. moments ago, trump tweeted, someone please explain to nancy
we had hearings with john dean and company. the one we had with mueller, these are all looking at what we wept on. race and all these different issues. and the courts are likely to give us access to material. if we re looking at an impeachment you ve already lost, when you talk about republicans they can fit their statement, no collusion, full exoneration. they have it down to a sentence. the part of the problem is the democrats are partly talking about impeachment and partly talking about oversight. we re going to come back. jerry nadler is speaking on another network. we re going to talk about him. much more coming up here on up. lawmakers reacting to president trump s hit on elijah cummings,