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feel your party, the democratic party does not pay attention to them any more you are more concerned with what bathroom people go into, to how they earn a living? what is the message. very fair question. one, you give me credit. it s about 1:10. it s not a bad rate for me. look, if we were going back in history to the 30s and 40s, and you asked the average working person, which party is the party of the working class in america? overwhelmingly, people would have said it was the democratic party. today people do not say that. and for good reason. no. when we talk about the greed on wall street, it wean the the republicans alone who did it, they did it with democrats. it was a democratic administration, not a republican administration, that brought forth nafta, i think the democrats have got to make a fundamental choice, chris, that is which side are they on? you cannot be on the side of wall street, of the drug companies and the insurance companies and the big mon ....
but when you compare director comey s testimony yesterday, which was quite compelling, believable and composed to the ways the president conducted himself today at the rose garden, i think james comey is going to win any credibility contest. what is your problem with how the president conducted himself today at the rose garden? this is a serious investigation, he was standing in quite a prestigious place, the rose garden and was asked if there were tapings, he sort of swintimated there were and said that investigation could be coming soon. there is not a reality show. this is the president of the united states with allegations of obstruction of justice taking place. the president did say he was 100% willing to testify under oath. will you call on the special counsel bob mueller to depose the president of the united his side will be more believable? jeff sessions apparently was in the room, jared kushner was in the room. and apparently there s more to hear from admiral ....
the vice presidency, which as you know surprised him, he always respected the role of the press. all right. andrea mitchell joining us by phone. andrea, appreciate that. and again, just continuing our coverage here. it is 1:00 in the east. we continue our coverage of the death of former president george herbert walker bush, america s 41st commander in chief. he has died at the age of 94. that word came to us now just over an hour ago, the word being passed from a statement from his son, george w. bush. we are joined by hallie jackson. let me start with you because we have heard from the current i m sorry. that is my mistake. we will be hearing from her in a minute. we are going to pause here just for a few seconds because we re going to be joined by our network affiliates and pick up the network coverage. this is an nbc news special report. steve kegeorge h.w. bush has away at the age of 94. that word coming to us just over an hour ago. a statement released by his so ....
other important things that are going undone. within this committee s own jurisdiction we should be addressed in the opioid epidemic. we could be working together to find a solution to our immigration and asylum challenges on our southern border. we could be protecting americans for having their intellectual property and jobs stolen by chinese companies and we could be enhancing election security just to name a few things. congress as a whole could be working on rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. providing additional tax relief to the nation s middle class families and providing additional security to our people here at home and abroad. instead, here we are spinning our wheels once again on impeachment. what a waste. the american people deserve so much better. i yield back. the gentleman yield back. thank you, mr. chair. i take no pleasure in the fact that we are here today. as a patriot who loves america, it pains me that the circumstances forced us to undertake thi ....
what does the president want to know? did he ask about ukraine s efforts to battle corruption? of course not. did he ask how the war with russia was going? not a chance. on the phone, his voice loud enough, president trump asked sondland, is he s going to do the investigation? the answer was clear. he ensured trump that the ukrainian president was going to do it and that he would do anything you asked him to. if that wasn t telling enough, my colleagues, in a conversation that followed, an american diplomat dining with sondland asked if it was true that president trump didn t give a blank about ukraine, sondland agreed, saying the president cared only about big stuff. the diplomat noted that there was big stuff in ukraine, like a war with russia. sondland replied that the president cared only about big stuff that benefits him personally. like the biden investigation that mr. giuliani was pushing. in that short conversation, we learned everything we need to know about the 45th ....