Washington. Im elizabeth prann. Leland im trying to figure out a saturday that wasnt busy in recent memory. Nice to be with you. Im leland vittert. Its the weekend, but President Trump is getting ready for the election mode. We have endorsements for republicans ahead of primary elections this year and new details for the president s plan for hitting the Campaign Trail for some g. O. P. Candidates in vulnerable districts around the country. Ellison barber travelling with the president up in new jersey at his golf club. Hi, ellison. Hey, leland, President Trump has spent a lot of time on the road of late. Hes set to head to tampa on tuesday for a Campaign Rally there. Traditionally in election mid term years, the party, no matter who it is, whoever is in the oval office, their party tends to lose seats, but President Trump says he is confident that this year republicans can buck that trend. I am going to work very hard. Ill go six or seven days a week
when were 60 days out and i will be
trump as president doing this directly from the oval office to the president of another nation. receipt different from his son meeting in a shady meeting in the trump tower in the middle of chaotic campaign in 2016. i 00 ronnicly another difference now is there is no mueller investigation. if this had happened a year ago, someone would have said house democrats looking to avoid having to bite the bullet would have said let s let robert mueller look into it and then we ll make a decision. but there is no mueller. the justice department is not looking at it. it won t get to courtney time soon. so it is in congress lap and congress is fairly squarely faced, i can t even speak, squarely faced now with the choice, are they going to let trump get away with not only doing this pretty terrible thing honestly for a president to do apparently if that is what he did, but also to simply sto stonewall congress. the ball really is in the
trump as president doing this directly from the oval office to the president of another nation. pretty different from his son meeting in a shady meeting in the trump tower in the middle of a chaotic campaign in 2016. ironically another difference now is there is no mueller investigation. if this had happened a year ago someone would have said, house democrats looking to avoid having to bite the bullet, would have said let s let robert mueller look into it. he s looking into everything else. then we ll look at the report and make a decision. there is no mueller. the justice department is not looking at it. it is not going to get to court any time soon. it is in congress s lap and congress is fairly, squarely faced now with the choice. are they going to let trump get away with not only doing this pretty terrible thing honestly for a president to do, apparently, if that is what he did, but also to simply stonewall congress? really the ball is in the house s court. so i think rosa delauro
moment. he said, we need to get the facts. first it s a very serious matter, very troubling. he put it in romney-esque terms but troubling in the extreme and we need to get the facts. once you say we need to get the facts, then you re saying the administration has to turn over the transcript and the whistle-blower complaint and make witnesses available and so forth. and you re implying if the administration doesn t do that, then congress has been thwarted and presumably have to consider that obstruction, perhaps itself impeachable. maya is absolutely right, one reason this is so important is this is trump as president doing this directly from the oval office to a president of another nation. pretty different from his son meeting in a shady meeting in the middle of the campaign in 2016. ironically, another difference now is there s no mueller investigation. if this had happened a year ago, someone would have said house democrats looking to avoid having to bite the bullet, would have sai
outmanufactured by sophisticated legal and lobbying campaigns. certainly has happened in washington before when you re dealing with rich people. right. what does it tell you here that we re learning more about the way the trump administration is letting off this putin oligarch and congress, to be clear, has a majority in both houses that wants to stop this. it s only that there are enough republicans to filibuster it that it wasn t stopped yet. right. well, the larger question that we have here now, ari, we can no longer say there is no connection between the president of the united states and russia there are too many people involved. you have his son meeting in trump tower with russian representatives. you have this sort of deal with an oligarch. you have manafort handling polling information. you have rudy giuliani saying he was still conducting deals at this point. so the question for congress certainly on the democratic side in the house is not whether or not trump is connec