point. so i think the stakes are incredibly high this week. there s almost no way he can t deliver. it s already in the report. well, you say that, but i think the pushback would be why didn t he make a determination? why couldn t he make a determination as to whether he committed a crime. then you have the republican who is are going to sit back and by all accounts they were originally going to be more aggressive and jim jordan was quoted in the new york times, republican on the judiciary committee saying the obvious first question would be when did you know there was no coordination and no conspiracy? i agree he should have been more direct. just tell us what you thought. enough with this double speak and i would have if i could have but i didn t. hopefully he ll come clean. that said, as jess was saying, there are ways to create that big moment even within the confines of the report. like how? the president has repeatedly
that s something that adam schiff, a powerful chairman has said, that this is simply a tool. senator mazie hirono was out saying, this is not something that s going to be seen as a bipartisan call for impeachment. as you know, that has long been nancy pelosi s bar for moving to impeach trump. if there was a bipartisan ground swell of support for this. and frankly, one congressman and that congressman being justin amash is not going to cut it. he is not somebody who is like a kevin mccarthy-esque or steve scalise-esque figure in the party, someone with his finger on the pulse of where most of the gop caucus is. he is often an outsider vote or an outsider voice. that s some important context to remember here. but he s an outsider voice, but as a freedom caucus guy, this move and his views are core to what they ve always cared about, right? they don t like the big deficit, they don t like a lot of spending and they don t like government overreach. it s not that amash has jumped the
not legal advice given. the privilege doesn t stand. and the evidence we ve seen so far either in the affidavit or mr. cohen s testimony before congress shows there was no privilege here. the greatest trump supporters right now will tell you their fear is not so much from bob mueller and the special counsel s office but from the southern district of new york and this search warrant affidavit is more proof as to why it is the trump administration should be genuinely concerned about this group of independent prosecutors. the greatest trump supporters continue to call this a waste of time and a witch hunt. when steve bannon turns over hundreds, maybe thousands of pages and people are salivating saying my goodness, he could be turning on the guy. couldn t he just be fooling nadler here and saying, great, go through this. there s nothing there. i mean, steve bannon has been one thing. i just had a case where they dumped 6,000 pages of documents and you go through 6,000 pages of document
negotiations, a process to denuclearize down the road, wouldn t that also be a victory, and couldn t he argue that that is making the region more peaceful? why does he go to these extremes when he doesn t necessarily need to? i think i don t know if it was he wasn t briefed, if he just wants to say that he got the deal, and then just assume no one is paying attention, that the north koreans did not follow along. or if, to be honest, if he just if the substantive contours of what the deal is matter less to him than the showmanship of having the coins and the meeting and everything else. which i think is probably true. but let s go back. you know, before all of this started. north korea was a pariah state, right? it was isolated. that was the status quo. was that better or worse than we are right now? who knows. but the idea that we were at the brink of war and donald trump brought us back is absolutely ridiculous. it was donald trump who had that war talk, says i m going to
he remain in that steady i think it remains to see if he ll pay a price if republicans actually side with democrats and say this is useless. it is smart on nancy pelosi s part to force the resolution that the senate has to take up in terms of denouncing this emergency measure. so that s actually smart on her part. it forces republicans to actually take make a decision about it. that s the problem here. i don t know if it hurts him at his base at all. but i do think he needs it. i think something about him and the affirmation he gets at those campaign rallies, he seems to feed from that and he needs that. so he s got to stick to it. kevin, couldn t he just pretend to build the border wall? well, if you listen to what he s saying, we re already building it. yes. that s what i mean. he already moved away from his declaration that mexico is