have to do now. do you think these hearings will bring us closer to an impeachment inquiry? they might. they very well might, because also the other thing is that the members of the committee are going to have to get really familiar with the mueller report. i was reading it for the second time myself. you beat me to it, elizabeth. because i ve heard a number of these lawmakers on our air and other cable networks as well. do you get the impression that the majority of them haven t even read the report? i wouldn t be surprised. listen, it s a big report. 440 pages. took me days to read it with all the footnotes. the first time you read it you can t absorb everything, so i m reading it a second time. they are very busy people. don t have the time. three, four days to devote to reading the report? it s understandable. that s why the impeachment process that this, that we went through in watergate was so important. because it educated not just the american people but the members of
impeachment. that said, the hearing that s coming up today has generated a little head scratching. i talked earlier with an aide close to members pushing for more aggression when it comes to this impeachment talk. this aide told me they found it perplexing, don t understand besides bringing in historical context how exactly this particular moment is going to change things, vis-a-vis congress relationship with the white house, and potentially see it as an effort of a red herring making members believe that leaders on capitol hill are doing more when it comes to impeachment than they actually may be doing. remember, even though we know chairman nadler according to cnn s reporting pushed pelosi to be more aggressive on this topic she doesn t in there yet and that s generating internal frustration. consternation with the house democratic caucus. betsy, thank you. elizabeth holtzman and kelly o donnell on the hill.
general? yeah. i think in the first instance, he goes to the attorney general. we re assuming this bureaucratic process where somebody is dropped on barr s desk. but there s no reason that they won t be in communication even before. so and it is true there is no exact specification for what barr has to tell to congress. but i think barr will want to, i can mueller will want to, and i think they ll both realize as a political matter, one way or another, the truth is going on out here. but i think in the first instance, if mueller is not happy, he will go and speak with barr, push on barr. there is a point congress will subpoena him. i don t see him pulling a michael cohen or andrew mccabe and showing up on his own volition and beginning to broadcast what hasn t been revealed. that i think would be a bridge
off new jersey because he s not going to win it, anyway? i think he s not going to win new jersey, anyway. he doesn t want this precedent, however. i think it probably will pass. it s heavily a democratic legislature there and they now have a governor who is a democrat. i would expect there to be a court challenge and i think it s undecided issue. on one hand, the constitution doesn t specify anything as a requirement for being president like revealing your taxes and on the other hand, elections are generally the way they ve organized ballot access is generally the province of the states. so i suspect that we ll have some litigation on this throughout the year. donna, while i have you, let s talk about another democratic star, beto o rourke. politico did this deep dive on the former congress imagine. here is what beto could unleash on trump. it examines how he garnered so much support for the bid in texas, but it s a race he ultimately lost. can a strategy that led to an
has to do vis-a-vis congress from the public. neal seems to think that the regs require the ag to report to congress. jack goldsmith, former head of the office of legal counsel doj has recently written that he doesn t read the regs that way at all and that the ag is not required to report to congress on anything substantive. so it s all going to come down to a negotiation between doj and congress. dana, two years in the making. what sort of anticipation or dread is building there in the capital over this report? well, craig, there s so much anticipation building that there s a very real possibility it could be an anti-climax when the report does come out that we may not even know. we re sort of all waiting around, watching the same 2-year-old file footage of mueller. we re waiting for the great oracle to speak. he may speak quietly silently behind closed doors. there s that video we have. we have eight pictures of bob