and then you watch that process unfold, and they educated public sentiment. both the events and the hearings and the discoveries by the end 57% thought he should be impeached. and then that great moment that you know so well about, you both do, when finally the day before he resigns, barry gold water and a couple other republicans come to tell him the situation. he s wondering can i get 34? maybe i ll get 20, and gold water says there s only four, and i m not one of them. it s an incredible moment. it wasn t this small thing. now they re going after this one bad thing he did. not this is how trump does bad things. the key at that time, i think, was that the republicans decide in the hughes judiciary committee to vote in favor of house impeachment articles. now it s split by party lines. nixon was unable to hold the republican party in the house and unable to do so in the senate. today it appears the president is able to hold his republican
we re waiting to see if the attorney general will brief those relevant members of congress what it is that the mueller investigation has concluded. i m telling you my money is on that prediction for sure. geoff bennett, thank you so much. julia ansley, and nbc national political reporter mike memily. mike you just got off a call with senator chris coons, a member of the judiciary committee. what were you able to learn? alex, it s been heartening for those of us here basically just waiting for any new information to come out of the justice department. as i talked to members of congress and also some members, their staffs, they re pretty much in the same position. a lot of conversations happening around what might happen but not a lot of new information. senator chris coons what we heard from him is emblematic from both parties. a preview of the mess anding battle about to come.
there are laws that need to be changed. and if they lead to find out information that makes people think including republicans on the senate side that there needs to be impeachment to protect our country, so be it. it doesn t necessarily have to be an impeachment issue. it can be fact finding for the american public and possible legislation down the line. representative steve cohen, thank you so much for your time on this big news day. let s go back to cynthia, former fellow prosecutor with me. is anything you heard from congressman cohen, anything we discussed, does that give you pause relative to something that could still be coming down the pipe for donald trump or anyone close to him? he didn t have a lot of details on kushner or hicks. but they are cooperating to some degree with the judiciary committee according to reports. right. it will be interesting to see what they ve turned over, their request from the judiciary committee mirrors the request of what they gave mueller. i
going to need to hear from mueller himself. what about the family? because i m curious if there are any plans of your committee to call any of the trump children to testify. i believe both from an appearance point of view and a political point of view, we should tread very carefully about that. i think that creates unnecessary sympathy for a situation as grave as this. obviously, at some point, we re going to having to hear from jared kushner and maybe ivanka and maybe donald trump jr. on serb aspects of the overall investigations. i wouldn t rush into that. i believe that that might be best left frankly to ongoing investigations by the southern district of new york. democratic congressman gerry conley, thanks for joining me. my pleasure. silence of the president pop we haven t heard from him yet about the mueller report submission. what are the chances he might have communicated with the attorney general? we ll talk about it next. with te attorney general we ll talk about it
alex? i imagine that is a focus for many in that crowd. thank you very much for that. hans nichols. now to leanne in rock hill, south carolina following cory booker s campaign. so leanne, i m curious what the senator had to say say about the mueller report. reporter: we re at the third campaign stop this morning in brock hill, south carolina. cory booker who is also a member of the judiciary committee has said what.other democrats said, that the report needs to be released. he also said that mueller should come before the committee and testify. but he also said that this is a big moment in american history. here s what he had to say. say very clearly i believe it should be released and i believe at this moment of history i think barr is going to understand this is a moment where he can affirm and support the integrity of our government. and restore people s faith in the system. i think history has got its eyes on him.