And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 833 of the Trump Administration and the president has just made the latest move in this standoff between the white house and the democrats in congress. Trump now says hes inclined to just say no to his former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn testifying before congress. The House Judiciary Committee has already subpoenaed mcgahn, who, of course, is a star witness in the Mueller Report, as he spelled out the president s efforts to undermine the russia investigation and get rid of mueller. Heres what the president told fox news tonight when asked if hed allow mcgahn to appear before congress. Ive had him testifying already for 30 years. So is the answer no . So i dont think i can let him and then tell everybody else you can, especially him because he was a counsel. So theyve testified for many hours, all of them. Many, many, many people. As far as youre concerned, its done. I cant say, well, one can and the oth
Night. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 833 of the Trump Administration and the president has just made the latest move in this standoff between the white house and the democrats in congress. Trump now says hes inclined to just say no to his former White House Counsel Don Mcgahn testifying before congress. The House Judiciary Committee has already subpoenaed mcgahn, who, of course, is a star witness in the Mueller Report, as he spelled out the president s efforts to undermine the russia investigation and get rid of mueller. Heres what the president told fox news tonight when asked if hed allow mcgahn to appear before congress. Ive had him testifying already for 30 years. So is the answer no . So i dont think i can let him and then tell everybody else you can, especially him because he was a counsel. So theyve testified for many hours, all of them. Many, many, many people. As far as youre concerned, its done. I cant say, well, one can and
Explores in a great piece for the atlantic magazine, what if trump were an Airline Pilot . Thats the question. You know, thats actually the question that, willie, we have been asking for almost three years now. Yeah. If donald trump were a ceo for any fortune 500 company, if he were a professor, if he we were you know, the Commanding Officer of a navy vessel, whatever he was. He would long ago have been kicked out of his position. And certainly if that didnt happen before his actions this past week would have assured it. Yeah. Im looking for captain sully vibe up in the congress pit than a donald trump vibe. But thats not how we do things in the United States of america. Theres no board to run President Trump out. Theres no way to fire President Trump. You have to remove him through an election if thats what you want to do as an american voter. So its on to the democrats at this point, unless an impeachment proceeding comes forward in the next 14 months and removes him from office and
24 hours. There has been a lot. As we just heard, the president flatly admitted on the south lawn that he wants ukraine and now china added in to look into the bidens. He just said it. Msnbc reports that President Trump suggested in a call with chinese president xi in june that beijing should investigate biden. He reportedly mentioned Elizabeth Warren too. White house record of that conversation went into the secret vault where that ukraine call lives, according to that report. A pair of trumps envoys drafted a statement for ukraines president to commit to investigating biden, thats according to the New York Times, they just put it in writing in a statement. Former Ambassador Kurt Volker testified yesterday before multiple house committees and reportedly revealed that he told giuliani the biden story was a dud and rudy was getting bad information. And the wall street journal reports that the u. S. Ambassador from ukraine was pulled from the country because she would not push the trump