Majority leader, Kevin Mccarthy who is now threatening members of his own party. Plus, pitiful priorities, i will speak with congressman jimmy gomez of the House Oversight committee, as the gop focuses on impeachment instead of keeping the government open. And will later on, no obstruction allegations, what a former aide says donald trump told her just after the classified documents organization was speeding up. Im Charles Coleman junior, in for ayman mohyeldin. Lets get started, i got a lot to talk about. But first, breaking news, time is running out, we are just seven days away from a Government Shutdown and most House Republicans are nowhere to be found. Literally. They have left washington to go home with no resolution insight. Now on thursday, for the second time this week, House Republicans failed to start a debate on a bill to fund the government after five farright members of Speaker Mccarthys own caucus block the measure and demanded additional spending cuts. This marks yet an
Will the former aide says donald trump told her just as a classified documents investigation was heating up. Im Charles Coleman jr, in for ayman mohyeldin. Lets get started, weve got a lot to talk about. But first, breaking news. Time is running out with just seven days away from a Government Shutdown. Most House Republicans or nowhere to be found. Literally. They have left washington to go home with no resolution insight. On thursday, for the second time this week, House Republicans failed to stop debate on a bill to fund the Defense Department after five farright members of speaker mccarthys own caucus blocked the measure and demand additional spending cuts. This marks yet another embarrassing moment for mccarthy, with the defeated theory telling members to go home, canceling all votes for the weekend. On friday, mccarthy told reporters that the next bullet could be held on tuesday. This time to take up a rule of a series of appropriations known as a mini bus. He says they believe th
team for testimony won t be a small thing. our understanding according to multiple sources is pence s team was approached by justice department prosecutors weeks ago seeking his testimony. that would be before smith s appointment as special counsel and he has been open to a possible agreement that he could become a witness in this investigation so it s not clear yet how hard the special counsel will push for pence to speak but the former vice president has fleshed out a lot of his version of what happened whenever he released his book sharing exactly the types of details like direct conversations he had with donald trump about trump s wish that he block the congressional vote for the president on january 6th, pence also spoke about trump calling him a wimp to his face, things that prosecutors would likely directly want to hear from pence if they get his testimony. pence is not saying no or digging in his heels at this point, but we still need to see how it plays out including
they could be charged with obstruction of justice. mcgahn also talked about donald trump s behavior, described as erratic, and sometimes out of control. he said some of the things trump asked him to do were crazy. this goes to show the state of mind of donald trump during this period of time. it s important to point out, this revelation by mcgahn and testimony won t amount to anything. the mueller report has been issued. the former president beat back an impeachment proceeding around that time. this was about making sure he would come in front of this committee for future instances like this coming up. the house speaker, nancy pelosi, putting out a statement saying his testimony alone was a victory for democracy. ryan, thank you. the news continues. let s hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. chris? the question is now, does the doj decide to do anything on the strength of what mcgahn put out there. likely politically, no.
special counsel. but mcgahn said he did everything he could to prevent that. and he said that trump wanted him to go on the record and deny that trump ever tried to remove mueller, but he was afraid it would expose him criminally and also the former president, donald trump, criminally as well. mcgahn also talked about donald trump s behavior, described as erratic, and sometimes out of control. he said some of the things trump asked him to do were crazy. this goes to show the state of mind of donald trump during this period of time. it s important to point out, this revelation by mcgahn and testimony won t amount to anything. the mueller report has been issued. the former president beat back an impeachment proceeding around that time. this was about making sure he would come in front of this committee for future instances like this coming up.