kind of transactional courage that retiring from the house gives republicans. this is congressman shimkus from illinois. he is leaving the house, and he has decided to turn away from trump over this syria matter. robert costa, the question for you, we had this very discussion here last night. you can stonewall, and that s an effective way of stopping the clock, but while the clock is stopped, these impeachment numbers, the public opinion polls are rather markedly on the move, and now syria has thrown such a wrench into these republicans who were already on the fence about supporting this president. brian, my colleague phil rucker and i on today s front page of the washington post go inside this dynamic in the republican party. pay close attention not just to the lockstep republican answers on impeachment, but to how they re handling questions about foreign policy. the outrage in many gop ranks about the president s decision to remove u.s. troops from
he had himself defined on ukraine by donald trump for over five business days. now just emerging from that. what do you make of the president s line of attack? let me start with what he said. i ll be 75 the week avnet. i grew up in south louisiana. farmer in the late 50s and early 60s. i know what means. same thing when you start about the central park five and went into birtherism and now this. this is no hidden trick here. this is exactly what you think it is. in terms of vice president biden, i thought trump threw him a life line. he was attacking him and he just comes up and say he spends 20 times more attacking me than anybody else because he knows i ll beat him, and he knows i m competent. he knows how to do things and how to appoint an attorney general, all the laws that
vulnerable republican rocky mountain senator in the days of donald trump being asked today if he thought the ukraine leveraging, the ukraine phone call was wrong. here is corey gardner. do you believe it s appropriate for the president of the united states to ask a foreign leader to investigate a political rival? yes or no. look, this is what we re going to get into. the senate intelligence committee is having an investigation, a bipartisan investigation. unfortunately, though, what we ve seen is a very political process take over. but is it i ve answered your question. no, you didn t. is it it s a yes or no. here s what we see in the house of representatives. you see a very partisan process taking place. why is it when you all do stories or we see reports in the news, it s about four states, colorado, arizona, maine, and north carolina. it seems to be about politics and elections other than the serious process that it is. but the question is it appropriate for a
occurred in the statute of limitations are enforced in this country. he is scared to death of me. and if they would have just stayed and drilled down on that message, the democrats would have rallied around him. trump has a 100% very negative view among democrats. and you don t answer and say he is attacking my family or anything. you ask the question, why is he attacking? because he knows that i ll beat him. i thought that they missed an opportunity there to not really drill down on that argument. but what trump is doing now is you know, in minnesota, he is going back to his old playbook. and it s the same playbook i ve been seeing since i have a political memory. i ve got something else to show you. here is sanjay gupta at home with bernie sanders tonight on cnn. an echocardiogram tells the function of the heart, how well the heart is beating. right. and can also give some indication of how severe the heart attack was. right. what did they tell you? well, what they told
the president is coming up with the underpinnings for firing comey. i know how the story is going to end. it s as fifth s already read to the end of the chapter but you re right there with it contemporaneously in the scene. looking back at all the details we cover especially in this hour five nights a week, just that day in the administration is the comey firing the one thing you would pick out in the rearview mirror as saying most consequential so far? absolutely. it is really the linchpin of this story and why trump is where he is today facing impeachment. i mean, steve bannon, you can, you know, like his policies or not. he did call it the worst political decision in modern political history and told trump not to do it. trump doesn t listen to advisors and gets rid of people that disagree with him and now has people surrounding him that