watchdog will open an investigation into the trump effort. keep in mind, this happened in 2017. this abuse of power then, wasn t some frantic action of an embattled president doing his frying until days. trump wanted the justice department to bend to his will when republicans still controlled the house. and adam schiff, now the intel committee chairman, was just the most senior democrat on the committee. this was pre-impeachment number one. well before the second impeachment. this was before democrats even began investigating trump in the house. three years before trump lost the 2020 election. this is just donald trump is. this is who donald trump has always been. a man unmoored by morality, principal and any sense of fair play. a man only looking out for himself. so now you know what i mean. if you re not playing close attention, you might think we re talking about 2019 trump. but 2021 trump is actually worse. because it always gets worse
to killing that isis fighter. we are left with the result that the jury found him, innocent of murder and guilty of posing with that photo. the other thing this underscores for me is the importance of the commander in chief, though nobody wants to take away his pardon power of course, the importance of him waiting until the system has completed itself, respecting the system and then making an informed decision. the president didn t wait until the end. he involved himself in the gallagher case all the way through. even when gallagher was in pretrial confinement, the president was getting himself involved in this and didn t let the review process complete before he went ahead and told the navy to stop the process. there s a reason why the system isn t perfect but it is a system that has survived the test of time and trial and would have been better for the president to have waited before he got
what we know is that the president often conducts policy and foreign policy by whim by personal preference not necessarily the national interest as we usually think about it. and he hides things from the app rat russ. and it s very possible that he has the right to do this. but it does underscore the problem that come the call is coming from inside the house we do not have a lot of mechanisms to correct it. ellen, i hear you need to go get to your typewriter. any last thoughts? no. just we ll have to see how this all plays out. chairman schiff today said that he s not ruling out the option of taking this issue to court, but stay tuned. we will. and we always are everything you and your colleagues report. thank you so much for your reporting on this and for spending some time on us. sam stein, just picking up on nick s point and once made by harry and frank, the system isn t designed for the president but neither was the system
registered voters but that s what they want to do. i think that the other piece that s kind of missing to me and one is that women in this country are economically stressed in a way that is just frankly not being reflected in some of the debates. i mean, these are women who now are almost a majority of the workforce. they can t afford child care. they re taking care of their parents, in addition to holding down one or two jobs and the system isn t working for them. i think they re responding to people saying we see you and that is the whole idea of super majority, to say women in this country are going to be the majority of voters and we want to make sure they re taking their issues seriously. what are they saying, what do they want? what is their one, two, three list of what they want democrats to say? i don t think it s what they want democrats to say. i think they actually and it s interesting, one thing pete said is probably right is that women actually want people who are goin
member. i couldn t disagree more. this is how they treat the legislative branch of our government, co equal group of government with the executive branch on a congressional delegation visit. does this help president trump s argument that congresswoman omar and tlaib are becoming the face of the democratic party? these women, along with two others on the squad have been the same a lot of time as congresswom congresswoman sherrill. two freshman normally apart going to make a lot of news. the system isn t built that way. you have been making news all morning. when ted cruz first came into office, he came in hot and heavy. he didn t make a lot of friends in the senate. legislatively was ineffective.