assume most of your adult life. yeah. can you forsee any republicans we know mitt romney has at least said something, that this is wrong. a couple of republicans come out and say this is wrong. can you foresee any republican senators even romney voting to convict this president and voting to convict if let s say you get what you want and they are all placed on the impeachment hurt is the bell weather in the house. there are some outgoing members, susan brooks of indiana. roby really no love lost with trump. it was more because they were conservative, southern democrats. you may see a few. in the senate i think romney votes for a clean article of abuse of power if the democrats win over. i think he does. the question is do the democrats send over a couple more articles that allow him to vote no on say obstruction of congress or something. and the real dispositive question is, can romney bring anyone with him or is this
attempted recruitment on to call it you know, team impeachment. but if you watch this show you know none of that was actually a surprise. we have been reporting how one, mueller was legally a hostile witness. he resisted the democrats for months. and two, how even as a willing witness in the past when he would face congress which he did many times, he was even then unyielding and often evasive. while the public was a key audience for mueller, so the perception in those headlines can matter, the most pivotal decisionmakers on question what to do about potential obstruction are inside the congress, inside the building, the institution that mueller was facing, like speaker pelosi who is still against impeachment at this point and senators who would ultimately rule on impeachment. one of them, senator markey came out to the floor today to announce his conclusion post-mueller. it is time for the house of
what i want to say specifically, for example, the statute of limitations on charging the president after he leaves office for let s say obstruction is five years and should the president win re-election, then that s going to run out. and he would then be immune from being held accountable for niece crimes. you re assuming no more crimes afterward. just using that. i m not actually assuming that, but right. even assuming that, and so there s a problem there. and because mueller wouldn t even say that he believed trump had committed a crime, there s no way to even make these allegations now that we can be sure we can make them unless they re done through the constitutional process of impeachment. that s why i think it s so important for the house to simply begin impeachment proceedings so there s a possibility of saying this obstruction is a high crime or misdemeanor. matt? you know, there s a related issue to the one she brought up. it relates to big barr closing
mueller came in and said here are the facts. the facts line up with what we ve been saying for a long time what the president has been saying, what reports have been saying about questions around the nature of obstruction, about block information, about real serious accusations in disregard for the rule of law. that is what the american people really needs to remember, really needs to think about. that s what perhaps congress should be helping the american people think through and wrestle with especially on the accountability for president trump. bill? yeah, i mean, i think when the key decision was made after the mueller report came down. we knew what we needed to know then to move to formal impeachment inquiry. speaker pelosi disagreed. she had reasons and they were both public spirited as well as political tactics. she may be right. i don t know. having made that decision, it s going to be hard to argue that we ve learned new things we
i don t know if the bill is perfect or good but fine, amend it. let s have a debate about kind of an important issue where they are interfering and it s not clear that the u.s. government is doing what it should be doing to protect our election from 2020. there s where democrats should be doing a lot to highlight this, especially the fact that the republican it s one thing not to agree with a particular piece of legislation. they want to spend the money differently, have different guidelines. it s another thing to not even have a debate about it. yeah, we ve got that headline up. professor? so two quick things. one, i think one of the things that the hearings reinforced how would he havefully the united states unprepared the united states is around election security and kind of foreign involvement or foreign interference. the second thing is at a certain i don t want in time, you know, all of this talk around corruption, around obstruction,