really telling, jake, because it shows that trump is still in command of this party. republicans were afraid to speak up against him. and meanwhile, gop leaders have been absolutely silent, even though they had quite a lot to say in the immediate aftermath of january 6th, and that includes kevin mccarthy, the house gop leader who was cited yesterday in the testimony as being one of the people who was deeply concerned by the idea of trump coming to the capitol on january 6th. yeah. and it s interesting because donald trump has really been taking it on the chin from conservative media after yesterday s hearing. i m not talking about the dead enders on the other chandal, but people in conservative editorial boards and such. tell us more about that. really tough headlines for trump. i want to tick through a few of them. the wall street journal editorial board said, republicans should not look away from the compelling evidence. the conservative washington examiner called tru
Why rob portman is hopeful. Mick mulvaney is warning. And steny hoyer is fighting mad. Theyre all here and only here. We begin with blake burman with the latest. Blake . Its clear here in the halls of the capitol as House Republicans mark up their bill and the senate will release their bill later this week. Theres a host of issues to work through. Earlier today, the club for growth, an influential Republican Group put out a note saying they have issues with four Different Things on the individual side of this House Republican plan. Here they are. Top tax bracket for millionaires with the possibility that those that make in the low Million Dollar range can see the top end taxed north of 45 . They take issue with a portion of passthrough profits would be taxed 25 . Growth. You had big deficits. It wasnt tax cuts that did it. Cuts create growth and growth creates revenues neil but you left out Ronald Reagan. I know. Deficits didnt grow with him. The first two years were high because we ph
speechless. gabby orr and pamela brown report since the first time the hearings started, no one is dismissing this. abby phillip, just to get you up to speed. earlier in the show, i interviewed trump s former acting white house chief of staff, mick mulvaney. i asked him about the description we heard from cassidy hutchinson about disengaging, trying to tell him about threats and he was sitting on the couch scrolling. here s part of what mulvaney said. i was texting with a colleague of mine who was in the west wing at the time, and i said look, was mark just completely incompetent or was he having a nervous breakdown, and the response was it was a little built of both. the west wing was clearly broken, clearly broken, and the testimony yesterday actually made me feel bad for some of the good people who were still there to have to work in that environment where the chief of staff was so obviously disengaged. in case you were not sure which of the guys with the last names that start w
the mulvaney press conference, and then were in the public statements in the two weeks of testimony in front of the committee. and those basic facts are not contested as the report says here. it s up to congress now to decide who to do with those facts and that gets to your points about the historical significance of these acts and is this conduct that really any party for the future wants to consider as appropriate and acceptable for any president to engage in and that s why these proceedings are so important to create historical records. i would add, too, what mulvaney said in one sentence is absolutely true. of course this influence and lobbying in foreign affairs in this town. happens every day. however, corrupt influence in foreign affairs, ask paul manafort how that worked out for him. the point is, there are limitations to what you can do. you have to register. there are as i think yovanovitch and register as a foreign agent. yovanovitch, hill, others
important investigation now and the american people deserve to hear about this. the real sort of immediate sin is that we don t know what mulvaney would say, what giuliani would say, what parnas would say, what bolton et cetera would say. that s still being hidden from view. that should be front and center now and instead it s just this sniping innuendo with no factual basis. one of the points you ve been making is abuse of power or obstruction by withholding dm i be an article of impeachment. i think they re preparing and it totally makes sense. that s the once response to the stonewall they ve received. thank you so much.