ended up with a wimper which is, can t we all get along and do some policy? there is fascinating, troubling reporting in bloomberg this morning, jackie. bloomberg is reporting that president trump in 2017, in an oval office meeting pressed then-secretary of state rex tillerson to push the justice department to drop a criminal case against an iranian man. this was an iranian gold trader. and this was for violating sanctions part of the iran nuclear agreement. that tillerson immediately objected because he said that would flat out be illegal. apparently talked to john kelly in the corridors of the hallway after that. no indication the doj did anything. they didn t act on this. but that person was a client of rudy giuliani. how serious is this for the president? and the white house at least to bloomberg, is declining to comment. rudy giuliani is like the where s waldo of all of these scandals. he keeps popping up. till areson said this in public
this country don t want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. so i will take the mantel. i will be the one to shut it down. i m not going to blame you for it. the person who shuts the government down almost always loses. what followed was the longest federal shutdown in u.s. history stretching for 35 days. the reality is the president could end the trump shutdown and reopen government today, and he should. as the shutdown continued, pelosi disinvited the president from his own state of the union address in the house chamber while giving him the option of delivering it from the oval office or in writing. t.s. elliott said most things don t end with a bang but with a wimper. this shutdown ended with a wimper. it was president trump having to recede and spin his way out of the shutdown and say it was over. in a short while, i ll sign a bill to open our government. no one should ever
calculus john, here of course seniors, he can be 90s donald which is there going to be a trump to people like me and he recession before the election. if that happens it could really can be celebrity apprentice donald trump for next generation hurt president trump s chances z people so i think people see of re-election, but to gary s you how they want to see you and point look at what europe is i think joe biden really doesn t doing. they are doing all the wrong offend too many people. i think that s why he things. you had germany joining the united kingdom this week consistently remains ahead in reporting their first quarter the polls and talk about the they had a drop in terms of primary objectives of democratic growth, that is they are in primary voters bringing back negative territory. if they have two they will be in pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin that s why he s ahead recession. can the u.s. as vibrant as our but he doesn t win eye all hell jobs market is and retail sales, bre
good evening and welcome to you both. maya, did we miss an announcement or was that the announcement because this appears to be impeachment by wimper and not bang. yes. is that what this is? yes. all right. [ laughter ] anything? sometimes it s that simple. let s add. okay. the short answer is of course it was always an impeachment inquiry. by definition of the house committee s were calling witnesses to understand the mueller report before the mueller report was released what evidence existed around the president and campaign and associates actions that it was an inquiry by definition that s what a hearing is and the silence of the inability of democrats to just say that went to the political strategy of vote counting, right?
house democrats, one independent say they support an impeachment inquiry or moving to a vote on impeachment. back with us tonight maya wiley, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york with a new school here in new york and john, his latest work co-authored with tim mcgraw is songs of america. good evening and welcome to you both. maya, did we miss an announcement or was that the announcement because this appears to be impeachment by wimper and not bang. yes. is that what this is? yes. all right. [ laughter ] anything? sometimes it s that simple. let s add. okay. the short answer is of course it was always an impeachment inquiry. by definition of the house committee s were calling witnesses to understand the mueller report before the