you would hope congress would get on its own without having to dig through mueller s trash. not having to go back through what he s already done. they re at that point. they have not been able so far to get don mcgahn and hope hicks to testify. you have to look at the clock, the election coming up. i remember heading into mueller day, we said the bigger testimony would be mcgahn. he was the cooperative witness. he talked to mueller over 30 times. he was at the heart of the obstruction accusations. he was the one the president talked to to fire mueller, and then he said tell everybody i didn t tell you to fire mueller. is he at the heart of that. he is what all of this could switch on. you watched that first hearing, don mcgahn s name came up question by question. laying out the obstruction case
half marathon verses a marathon. what do you make of what he had to say about that what are we waiting for at point? i think everybody who cares to pay attention to the facts rather than just the politics realizes that the president committed impeachable offenses. the question is what do we do about it? do we let the clock run out and hope for the best in 2020? i m pessimist bic that because as we all saw the president is willing to cheat again the way he did in 2016. so an election doesn t seem to be tsd sociehe societal fix for problem. as an old prosecutor there s a matter of principle that if you catch the president committing crimes and bob mueller has laid it out on a silver platter, you need to try to hold them accountable. as jerry nadler said yesterday in federal court in his filing the only way for our country to
point that guards, cbp personnel, started to arm themselves in areas where they would not normally carry guns because they feared riots that s the point that this was at months ago. so it also begs the question why the dhs made the sole response to this, more money. remember they kept asking for more money, it finally passed last week that $4.5 billion for more detention space. but they acted as if that was an emergency that came up very suddenly when in fact they have known for months that there were problems that could have been avoided. one thing we found is that some of the agents were actually going out can their corporate government credit cards to buy more food because there wasn t enough food. so there are things that could have been put in place to avoid this and of course it does counter some of what we have heard from this administration that no, in fact, these were sanitary conditions and that children were treated well. you and jacob have been reporting so well on so m
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there with the russian president. are we taking that to be wrong? and what is it with your coziness with some of these dictators and autocrats at these summits? with mohammed bin salman when you were asked about the case of jamal khashoggi you did not respond to that question in front of the i don t know anybody are you afraid of offending him on that subject? no, not at all. i don t really care about offending people. i sort of thought you d know that. that is more of president trump at the g20. note that the first sound were they discuss fake news is the russian media and the american press was not in the room at that time. they were brought in moments later after that exchange, but let s talk about the substance of the exchange when they re joking about fake news, given president putin s reputation