working behind the scenes at a plan aimed at jamming this massive health care spending bill through congress against the clear wishes of an unsuspecting public. look at how this bill was written. can you say it was done openly? no! with tran paresparency and accountabili accountability? no! without backroom deals, behind closed doors, hidden from the people? hell, no, you can t. we want to do it right. if you rush this thing through before anybody even thoughs what it is, that s not good democracy, that s not doing our work for our constituents. charles, i m not saying, i m just saying. i mean, what do you even say to that? i said, i m not saying, but i m just saying. it s actually kind of sad and pathetic, right, because it i mean, on one level, it is about washington and just the hypocrisy of washington politicians. on another level, it s specific to these particular politicians
it would be him because the offenses are certainly stacking up. this latest is just so conspicuous that one wonders what he had in his mind when he was filling those forms out. john john barrett, also cnn is learning tonight the senate judiciary committee is now going to look at obstruction of justice allegations. do you think that s the right move? it s within their oversight jurisdiction, obviously, and the sort of watergate precedent, john dean, forgive me, is special prosecutor and the senate committee investigation proceeding on parallel tracks. and, you know, there s serious evidence that indicates possible obstruction. it s, i think, obvious that mueller is investigating it for law enforcement purposes and it makes sense that the senate and, indeed, whereas the house should dig into it for congressional purposes. is that the right move, do you believe, matthew? this is where i have to disagree with the professor. as i said the other night, the only difference between t
my motivation, why? i ve been thinking why jay sec cue lo would go on the circuit and say this is the message that i m trying to drive. and i think really what they re trying to do is frying to say that the president isn t under investigation as far as they know. that s what they re trying to say. don t they drive home the message that the president is under investigation just by the it s called hanging a lantern on it. exactly. john dean, you ve been in the white house before. you ve been around. when you don t want something to be out there in the ethos, you don t give it oxygen. you shut up about it, don t respond to it. that s the general rule. we ve got a situation here, don, where the justice department really doesn t have the power to indict a sitting president. so they might be driving the point home right now and starting to lay the base for it that they don t think the special counsel should be even snooping around these areas if they are beginning to target a
sucalow went out, his personal attorney, and tried to clear up something president trump did and couldn t do so because it wasn t cleanupable. it is what it is. i like that. not cleanupable. right. it just isn t. i mean, it is what it is. i hope my kids are not watching since it s not proper english. but the bot tom line, people ar put in positions now in the white house and perhaps they can t get out or don t feel like they should get out or feel like if they do get out, then perhaps that is going to create more chaos and what have you. they re adult the, mark. it s a terrible situation. mark, they are adults and chose to get themselves into this situation and here they are. and let s hope that they re proud of it. abby, the white house isn t answering questions. neither is the president. here s a photo op of the president with the president of panama. watch this. mr. president, are you under investigation by the special counsel? i would like to mr. president, are yo
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