house for that. is that what part of what slowed you down or made you as careful as you ve been in reaching the decision. i think it played a role. i wouldn t say it played a major role. but the last time it really just brought the country to a really difficult position. but, you know, lawrence what choice do we really have? we have an obligation. and we have to fulfill the obligation. i think to do anything less would be really not doing our duties. we would hold we know the senate has a majority. and so the chance of getting a conviction you can get impeachment but not conviction is nil. but that doesn t matter because i think the constitution works and we really have to do our job. i mean, we are talking about russian interference in the united states election. and we are talking about collusion with the trump campaign. i mean, what can be more important than a democracy hanging in the balance? the president takes it quite
of minnesota, a member of the senate judiciary committee and candidate for president thanks for joining us tonight. thanks, lawrence. i want to switch gears for a moment on this breaking news that we re getting from hyannisport. you worked with ted kennedy in the senate and now one of his nieces reportedly died today, the news released by the family in hyannisport, possibly from drug overdose. i wanted your reaction to that. you just think of the tragedy that has hit this family. and it s just one thing after another. obviously we think of them today. but in problem of drug overdoses is happening all over this country right now. and certainly we know it here with prince in minnesota but it s not just famous people. it s everyday people. i talked about little casey jo, a champion swimmer at the end of
we cover them like sporting debates. we try to guess which candidates impress the tv audience the most. and we are always guessing about that although we rarely label our statements as the pure guesses they are. we evaluate debating skills. that s the problem with debates. presidents don t have to think on their feet. presidents never have to make a decision alone without advisers who have much more experience on every subject than the president does. so the debates do not test the skills necessary to do the job of president well. it s a job that you never get to see the president do, because the real work of the presidency is done behind the closed door of the oval office or the closed door of the cabinet room or the situation room or on air force one. the real work of the presidency is making decisions after being
he git punched us on the election bill last year. senator langford and myself and senator burr was on the bill, warner. basically the administration made calls directly, don mcguyana the white house council and stopped the bill. calling republicans. let s listen to what the president said today about russian interference in the election since this is so relevant to what you were fighting for in the senate floor today. robert mueller said last week that russian interfered in u.s. elections right now. did you raise that with vladimir putten you don t believe this? do you believe in do you believe this okay, fine we didn t talk about that. so, there is the president of the united states saying in next, he doesn t believe that russian russia interfered with the election or russia plans to interfere with the election when he is confrontwood that by robert mueller s testimony through a reporter he says you don t really believe this. same old thing. robert mueller said it under
sufficiently briefed on the subject by people who have been working on that subject for their entire careers and know the subject way better than the president ever will. the president doesn t have to sit there on his own trying to think of every relevant fact of a particular policy in 30 seconds. that s not the job. i have seen only one president doing the job of the presidency. and that s because when bill clinton was president i was chief of staff of the finance committee and most of the agenda had to come through my committee. we were repeatedly in meetings with the president in the oval office with the door closed and in the cabinet room with the door closed. and in those rooms in every meeting i was in, the president of the united states had less to say than anyone else in the room. and in the meetings i was in, the president of the united