not only did we start that character of resources, and of thousands of them around the country that is it isn t the cdc running everything. you ve got all of these local public health officers, state and local, and they have that. they have incredible legal powers, but they don t have a social. power and because they re low status, poorly paid, no one really understands or feels the need for them, or understood their roles. so you can see, watching which the friction that she experienced with the community, that she was going to have a warren or have she had to do something really big. and, you also saw, that she was willing going to get any backup from the senate for disease control. they had sort of removed themselves from the role of actual disease battlefield command, because it was meant seeing controversial. and turn themselves into an academic institution. that wanted to wait until they had lots and lots of data s before they made any decision. and while all of these character
than anybody else around him. but he s caught between three forces right now. nancy pelosi is holding cards. the committee chairs in the senate, his colleagues, they do not want a situation where a precedent is established of the executive not turning over any documents or witnesses. 13 months from now there could be a president warren or president biden and the republican chair of these committees don t want to get stonewalled by that so they have institutional interests in seeing witnesses and documents. and then you have the vulnerable republican candidates who are up this year. and they are clearly going to want to see some witnesses because they don t to explain to their constituents, their independents that they need to win general elections. you know, why this was a fake trial, they need it to be a real trial. so i think by the time this is over, lawrence, there will be a
constitution and the laws, so help me god. shamelessness is contagious. you know, the problem with trump is that when you re in his orbit you re tainted and you start acting worse than you would otherwise. and in mitch mcconnell s case, that s saying something. mcconnell is in a tough spot. we tend to think of him as this ace legislator who always gets his way and understands power than everybody else around him. but he s caught between three forces right now. nancy pelosi is holding cards. the committee chairs in the senate, his colleagues, they do not want a situation where a precedent is established of the executive not turning over any documents or witnesses. 13 months from now there could be president warren or president biden and these republican chairmen of these committees
constitution and the laws, so help me god. shamelessness is contagious. the problem with trump is when you re in his orbit, you re tainted, and you start acting worse than you would otherwise. and in mitch mcconnell s case, that s saying something. mcconnell is in a tough spot. we tend to think of him as this ace, you know, legislator who always gets his way and understands power better than everybody else around him. but he s caught between three forces right now. nancy pelosi is holding cards. the committee chairs in the senate, his colleagues, they do not want a situation where a precedent is established of the executive not turning over any documents or witnesses. 13 months from now, there could be a president warren or president biden, and these republican chairmen of these committees don t want to get stonewalled by them. so they have certainly
fore when professor turley was asked the question has a president ever gagged all these witnesses and stonewalled congress from any documents, e-mails, et cetera and he couldn t answer the question. but we know the question. no president has done that before. if the republicans allow this behavior to go unchecked a president warren or president sanders can just say, you know, i m not going to bother cooperating with impeachment. impeachment and the book goes into this, the central thing our founders put in the constitution to protect you and me from a president who puts his interests above those of the american people. you can t just read it out of the constitution because you don t like it. i want to follow up on something you mentioned in your book. today your book was invoked by republicans actually sort of hilariously clumsily bad faith way. i want to play you a sound of a portion of a republican reading