that they otherwise lost in the ways they have been dragging their feet until today. it gives them an opportunity to refocus the conversation about what is at stake here and why they are moving forward on this, to narrowly define it as a national security issue to say that their national security background allows them to put country over party and that they don t think the president is doing that. and republicans who are standing in line with him are not doing that either. they can change that conversation and make it something maybe bigger than just blue and red politics or you know pro trump or antitrump politics and use it as a way to change the conversation and educate people on what they see is the larger issue here. that is the other history lesson we get from past impeachments. the public wasn t for impeachment until the end with water gate, until the evidence came out when they heard nixon s voice and saw a transcript of nixon saying that the cia should be used to block the
or advising them in any way, but i think that gives democrats a chance to change the messaging on this whole impeachment discussion that they ve otherwise sort of lost in the ways they ve been hemming and hawing and dragging their feet. it gives them an opportunity to refocus the conversation about what is at stake and why they re moving forward on it. to narrowly define it as a national security issue, to say their background allows them to put country over party and they don t think the president is doing that. and republicans who are standing in line with him are not doing that either. they can change that conversation and make it something maybe bigger than just, you know, blue and red politics or, you know, pro-trump or anti-trump politician and use it as a way to change the conversation and really educate people on what they see as the largest issue here, not just saying trump is the issue. that is actually the other history lesson we get from past impeachments with watergate,
impeachments. the public wasn t for impeachment until the end with watergate, until the evidence came out when they heard nixon s voice and saw a transcript of nixon saying that the cia should be used to block the fbi investigation. the democrats have to be able to find something that will change the public impression about this and something that changes their minds. it s an initial readout. it may be public this week. we ll see if the numbers change. robert costa, peter baker, jeremy bash, thanks to all of you. coming up, a transcript, a complaint and an ig report, how these three documents could change the nation s political history. that is next. ory. that is next. i get it all the time. have you lost weight? of course i have- ever since i started renting from national. because national lets me lose the wait at the counter. .and choose any car in the aisle. and i don t wait when i return, thanks to drop & go. at national, i can lose the wait.and keep it off.
transparent. under federal law a commission like this has to be open to the public, they have to make all of their documents open to the public, but they have already met, they ve conducted business and they gave no public notice of that meeting. the public wasn t allowed to listen in on that meeting and we haven t seen their documents, that s the first step. thank you, kristen clark and dale ho. a quick update, education secretary betsy devos is on the hot seat again, this time being sued by 18 states and the district of columbia over her last minute, quote, reset of an obama era rule that helps student borrowers saddled with debt from for-profit colleges accused of fraud. for-profit colleges accused of fraud, maybe she can ask her boss for advice. up next, florida s stand your ground law was told to take a seat this week. more on why it matters when we
died in alain bar. the public wasn t convinced it was making us safer at home. i was worried it was making us weaker and would make us weaker on the world stage. i m not a military expert i don t pretend to be. we have to learn the lessons of the past and we see now how difficult it is to undertake this idea of nation building and trying to put together a complicated set of ethnicities and cultural diversity in a situation like we saw in iraq. david brooks has an interesting piece today in the new york times where he does a 180 on his view of the issue of nation building. i see a lot to what he said on this. it s not retreating from the rest of the world, no one for doing that. we have to be smart when we engage engage. there are people who are