that what you see is a lot of projection here. when you see that to pelosi, that letter reads like a legal version of you re out the boss of me. they don t have a lot of legal rationale. and when you look at the way that impeachment is set up, it really doesn t make sense structurally they would even write the things they have written. and the president will get due process rights when the trial goes to the senate, but this is an investigative stage. the five hour gap that you added to some of our understanding of it with a presidential phone call is right in the middle of the five or somewhere, it is somewhere in the five hour gap? yes, he is continuing to say that it was all above board.
embroiled in the controversy and the drama that that first meeting has created. they still haven t cleaned up the mess from all of the muddled and confusing statements and the terrible walk-backs that he s made in the past few days to clean up after that first meeting. what do you make of inviting vladimir putin to washington this fall? katy, i ve been half joking today upon hearing this news that the timing is great because putin s indictment should be ready by then and they can nab him at the airport. but seriously, i do think what we re seeing here, as surprising as it is, is the continuation of this double down practice of the president, the what i call the you are not the boss of me attitude when leading members of congress say this is not good, he s doubling down. he s saying not only am i in charge, i m doing what i want to do and i ve got a strategy and a method to my madness, and that s what we re seeing here.