Senator Lindsey Graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the Donald Trump Campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the president ial election. Since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit on a judiciary subcommittee investigating the issue of russia. Comey according to Sheldon Whitehouse said he would confirm whether or not that investigation is occurring by this hearing that theyre having tomorrow in this Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee exploring russias meddling in the election. Eastern yoeuropean elections as
committee and the top democrat mark warner told me going into the briefing theres no evidence whatsoever even though he met with james comey last week. One other s
The speaker warned him off of that. Made very clear that the individuals that would be voting for this bill were many of the individuals that helped republicans secure and maintain the majority, told them it Wasnt The Best idea. That said, there was still a House Freedom caucus meeting that was scheduled with tom price and nick mulvaney. They allowed that to happen after it was clear after the meeting there would be no movement with the conservatives, the House Freedom caucus members. The call was made. President trump called the speaker and told him clearly it was time to pull the bill and that is exactly what happened and the ramifications of that arent just micro, not just this week or this bill. They are health care, period. Obamacare stands not just for now, not just for the next couple months butter for the foreseeable future. A lot of republicans talked about if this goes down maybe kind of go piecemeal, piece by piece, try to do this in smaller chunks than all at once but is th
president lashing out at democrats today in the wake of mueller s testimony saying it was a good day for republicans. nancy pelosi says the testimony under oath shows crimes were committed. let s discuss now. bash, john dean and ryan liz sa. the dream team. welcome everyone. welcome to d.c. i want your take away about what happened today and talk about the new reporting that you have. we understand that pressure is building within the democratic caucus on impeachment. what do you know? it s been building for a long time. right after the hearings ended, nancy pelosi had a close door meeting with her caucus and we have been doing reporting on it. the headline is that they were really pounded by the members wanting to know now what? mueller has testified. now what are we going to do?
i like to does you the reason you didn t indict donald trump. because of olc opinion stating you cannot indict a sitting president. correct? that is correct. i want to go back to one thing this morning. saying i quote you didn t charge the president because of the opinion. that is not the correct way to see it. as we say in the report and the opening, we didn t reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime. so, ryan, was the first one a slip. how did you view this? he s confused everyone. everyone that read the report interpreted the decision the way he answered the first time. the case for obstruction of justice was strong enough to indict the president. in his second answer he is just seems to be saying i only want to stick to the wording of the report. i don t want to add some new way
think he didn t deliver for the democrats. i think when the average person out there hears the things he said, it will be a revelation to them. they re not in the 3% who read the report. the 97% never heard of it. what s in it. this will have an impact. let s go through the comments. it seemed to be a bomb shell moment why the president was not charged only for mueller to walk it back. i like to does you the reason you didn t indict donald trump. because of olc opinion stating you cannot indict a sitting president. correct? that is correct. i want to go back to one thing this morning. saying i quote you didn t charge the president because of the olc opinion. that is not the correct way to see it. as we say in the report and the opening, we didn t reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime. so, ryan, was the first one a slip. how did you view this? he s confused everyone. everyone that read the report