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Of this hearing happening before house judiciary compared to the house intel hearings we saw last month. so now it will be chairman nadler and ranking member doug collins. your expectations. it is interesting. there was a mock hearing yesterday. both sides do this. nothing unusual about it. they did it before the intel committee hearings. the democrats had their hearing where they not only had all their members there in a room practicing for this hearing, but they also had staff members acting as the republicans trying to throw up various parliamentary procedural roadblocks. jerry nadler said i m not going to take expletive and a lot of people think he was talking not just about from republicans, but also from some democrats. there are some people we talked to a few moments ago about steve cohen, congressman from tennessee who brought the fried ....
He said there s nothing that binds you to that report. he sent this letter to mueller telling him he s free to testify. at the same time, there deliberations have been intensive behind the scenes. democrats held a mock hearing, one of three different mock hearings that democrats and republicans have held behind closed doors. very unusual on capitol hill. someone sat in as an aide in a mock hearing yesterday. one played jim jordan the republican who sits on this committee because of democrats trying to prepare for procedural hurdles and other objections that may be raised. and this some of the most intense hall crowding in the hallway that i ve seen in some time. people have been waiting since last night sleeping overnight to come into this packed hearing room here in the rayburn house office building waiting for this key moment, this high stakes moment that both parties are preparing for, sharpening their ....
So i would remind people the white house turned over 1 million pages of documents, the white house chief counsel sat down for 30 hours and democrats are trying to say they want election integrity. if they re worried about that they should look at google s search engine meddling that might have manipulated to million votes if they are that concerned, but trying to score political points. let s look at this poll and i want you to respond to this because it looks like overwhelmingly people agree we should not be holding these hearings. not only are they holding the hearing today but they held a mock hearing yesterday. i democrats getting any work done? of course democrats are getting work done. the most important thing is for the american people to understand what happened in the 2016 election. allow robert mueller to speak for himself. there has been consternation on cable news about what mueller says. allow him to speak for himself. ....
Then the investigation to stop it. or to make it conclude with a more favorable response to the president and his involvement with russia s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. and so, whether or not mcgann will reveal more information will be more clear, according to the democrats. it s not clear as of now. but certainly, that s what they re going to look for and want to hear from him if he comes forward. big day ahead, eugene. i know you re going to be watching. can t wait to hear your thoughts after that. eugene scott, thanks for joining us. thank you. for the first time in months the defense department has a permanent leader. yesterday, the senate overwhelmingly voted to confirm mark esper, 90-8. it ends the longest period of time that the pentagon has gone without a congressionalal agreed ....
Axios a.m., national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan. good morning to you. good morning. a big day ahead. talk to us about axios one big thing today. today is very simple. it is jerry nadler s last best opportunity to open an impeachment inquiry into donald trump to force nancy pelosi to do this. and you can see this from the preparation that the democrats have put in. they did a mock hearing yesterday. they want to create we have spoken to a number of democrats on the committee, jackie spear, telling my colleague that she fantasizes, i think she uses that word about robert mueller reading out sections of this report. they are obviously based on what we have been reporting and also just plain common sense going to try to get robert mueller to at least creep up to the point where he says he probably won t do this, but the word but for ....