general s report out of the justice department, and among those allies by the way is the attorney general himself, bill barr, using that report, spreading some false information and attacking the fbi. butat we saw more broadly that this impeachment proceeding has served to even further divide and inflame the tensions in the country. there s a lot of concern among the former governors from both parties that we spoke to who are in their outposts, their states allut across the country, that this is a real inflection point in oura country s history, tha we re not going to find any resolutiond until november of 2020 in the election when the voters have a say, and that the divide could continue well beyond that depending on the outcome and depending first and foremost on how president trump handles it. ashley, you get the last word. i need you to talk about a story youo covered and wrote about tonight. the executive order from the president that defines
i m really worried about this will take the country. here s what i t think is best f the country. that wefo listen to the house s case based oftn the evidence th use to impeach if they do, that we not build upon that record. we let u the president give his side of the story of why it s not impeachable. then i think we should vote and end it. buthi appearing on this netwk tonight, democratic senator jon tester of montana had this warning for his republican colleagues.r co i think if folks want to tn this trial into a carnival, i think there will be hell to pay for that at the ballot box. i think people expect an honest and fair trial and depoliticize it as much as possible, and i will tell you that is very difficult after watching the house for a bit this evening. but theth bottom line is that i think the american people expect our government to work. here for our leadoff discussion on a wednesday night, philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning bureau chief for
helmet, wearing the most minimal body armor with a long gun in urban streets where there was a gun battle going on. this too, chuck, is the fbi. you bet it is. it s the fbi. it s law enforcement at the state, local, and federal level throughout the country. the gentleman in that picture moving toward danger, that s what they do. the notion that the president would call them scum is offensive, deeply so, and indefensible. and i ll tell you this. you mentioned the detective that was killed the other day, joseph seals. two of his colleagues were wounded. i looked up the number just out of curiosity yesterday. 118 men and women in law enforcement have been killed this year, state, local, and federal, in the line of duty. these are folks who move to the sound of danger, often without all the protection that you would expect that they would have, that they would need, because that s what they do. a picture is worth a thousand
advertisements it pays to advertise. he is paying to advertise, and he s getting a bump. now, you know, how high can that money alone take you? and we ll find out, especially if we get a mixed result in the first primaries as he suspects there might be. then we re talking about super tuesday, big, gigantic media market states like california and texas up on super tuesday where that sort of money might make a big difference. i got a question for a newspaper guy like you. mm-hmm. that paper version of the washington post website that they call the washington post newspaper. yeah? a lot of editorial boards across the country have been calling for the impeachment of this president. as nicely as i can ask, what does that matter, and how is that calculated into the democratic decision? we re all of a certain age generally here. yeah, we re all of a certain age, and we re all old enough to
abuse his power and then stonewall all congressional requests for information, congress cannot fulfill its duty to act as a check and balance against the executive, and the president becomes a dictator. the big lie that we re hearing perpetrated tonight is one that the end justifies the means. the lies that the sham impeachment is okay because the threat is so real and so urgent and so imminent. it s not just because they don t like the president. they don t like us. they don t like the 63 million people who voted for this president. op in flyover country, all of us common folk in ohio, wisconsin, tennessee, and texas, they don t like us. the framers were so concerned about a president abusing his power that they gave us the power of impeachment. george washington was particularlyto concerned about unprincipled men finding their way into the white house. well, those times have found us,