A third principle is judicial review. Here i would just remind the committee about the supreme courts decision in trump versus mazar. The court said about this committee that in fact it has to conduct the investigation for a legitimate purpose. A Fishing Expedition is not a legitimate purpose. Moreover, the court in the trump case it is not a legitimate purpose for the house or House Committee to be conducting the function of law enforcement. I heard many references here to criminal misbehavior, to whether or not somebody should be thrown in jail. Criticisms of a prosecutor, mr. Weiss. That sounds to me like an attempt to really substitute for the properly legitimate proceedings of the house. Two other safeguards real quickly. One is that these proceedings should be based on principle, not partisanship. I fear that what were hearing today, which can be traced back to 2019, and accusations made against mr. Biden are driven bipartisan animus more than principle. A final safeguard is for
it s already there, katy. as we ve been report right leg for some time, this is in some ways a follow the money investigation. because don t forget, one of the main allegations in the dossier that we know fueled in part the fbi investigation was that the russian government was trying to ingreat 80 itself with donald trump and his team through sweetheart financial deals. so of course that is a matter that has to be looked into. and we already know, for example, that the senate is now pouring through thousands of documents from fin sin, the treasury department s money arm. and everyone i ve talked to believes that mueller has the same stuff. so it s an investigation i m sorry r ken. so how far back do they go in trump s finances? how many years back? so i don t have that level of clarity, but it s many years. i mean, for example, we know that back in 2008 a russian ol i guard bought a palm beach estate from donald trump for $895 million, more than twiels what he paid for it. it s
and a situation now so serious president obama is getting involved. saw the mass exodus yesterday from that area. it was incredible. those pictures keep rolling in of neighborhoods on fire. good morning, everybody. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zor ray da zam bow lynn. up first, the decision that will affect every single american is less than five hours away. the supreme court will decide whether all or parts of the affordable care act dubbed obamacare by many is constitutional. politically it is considered the signature legislation of president obama s time in office, and it s likely to be a center piece of the presidential election campaign as well. mitt romney, the presumptive republican presidential nominee, says he ll take action regardless of the decision. whatever the supreme court does tomorrow, one thing we know, if i m elected president, we re going to get rid of obamacare and replace it with real reform. and the american people