Plot to this Judiciary Committee. This is the committee that will be writing articles of impeachment against the president. This breaks with bipartisan precedent. In the nixon and clinton impeachment investigations, those president s cooperated. Even past president s who faced allegation of corruption wanted to show cop raugs. Who is going to defend you better than your own paid employees . Skipping the hearing also denies trump the opportunity to offer defenses on the record. Consider in all fairness today the white house has pushed back on some of the evidence from this impeachment report that Rudy Giuliani was speaking to budget officials and they have every right to do that in the public realm and well report to you what their defense is. But were also past the journalistic piece of this story. By skipping next weeks hearing, think about it, the white house is giving up the opportunity to make that case directly to the congress, directly under oath to say if it is true that there w
have you spoken to a single republican who s considering voting for the impeachment? yes. you have? yes. how many? it s a small list on one hand. i m joining by former wisconsin senator russ fingal. good evening to both of you. maya, the point i raise is one in all seriousness, in all fairness, if there is real evidence that those calls that appear to be say budget calls between rudy and the white house or something else, let s have the discussion with real evidence under oath. isn t the white house missing an opportunity there? the white house is missing an opportunity if by bringing that evidence it helps them. i think the question is why was rudy giuliani having so much