someone asking the tough and the right questions as opposed to just this playing out not that this is a bad thing but playing out only in the press and courts. now we have someone, a body of people who can actually directly ask the questions on behalf of the american people. i think it s going to be a tough two years. i think we also have to weave in the american people, but we here on television explain that there are differences between this legislative body, fact finding process and the courts. and the department of justice fact finding, right? they are very different things. and i think, you know, they are going to get all confused. trump will try to confuse them. i think tim made a great point about trump is going to attack, right the same way he calls the mueller investigation a witch-hunt. he s going to call, you know, presidential harassment. i m not saying he s right to call it presidential harassment but on the other hand attacking
because we know mom wants what s best. more beverage choices, smaller portions, less sugar. balanceus.org welcome back to up. i m david gura. it was a blockbluster. the first big hearing convened by house democrats, president trump s acting attorney general, matthew whitaker questioned for roughly five hours by the house judiciary committee. topic a as pete williams put it was russia investigation, and whitaker insisted he has not spoken to president trump about the probe and he has not interfered. are you overseeing the witch hunt? it would be inappropriate for me to talk about an ongoing investigation. this is nothing more than a character assassination. we re going to have plenty of theatrics, bring your popcorn, i m thinking about maybe setting up a popcorn machine in the back. in your capacity as acting attorney general, have you ever been asked to approve any request or action to be taken by
it just doesn t work that way. days after the state of the union the gavel to order several hearings on capitol hill the ways and means committee on president trump s taxes, acting attorney general matthew whitaker was in the hot state before the judiciary committee facing questions about robert mueller s investigation. energy and commerce is looking into the family separation policy and as the russia investigation continues, house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff announcing his committee wants to broaden the scope of the russia investigation to look at finances, foreign pressure and attempts to influence investigations. judiciary chairman is looking into russia and obstruction of justice. congresswoman waters wants to look at the emulment clause. you say adam schiff. adam schiff. never heard of him. that wouldn t be partisan would
a , kavanaugh and i think we will be be in a kavanaugh-esque situation but this is the trump factor of all it, i think the bar has raised the bar for what is offensive and a little bit of them, for the ability to hide in that and see how they can parse out their political futures so i think it is interesting to see if democrats can do what trump has done so well, which is let such big controversies roll off and just kind of keep on going. we haven t seen that from democrats really. and kind of a very cynical calculus here on the part of the governor of virginia. he sent an e-mail out to staffers in virginia yesterday. i will read a little bit from it. it was excerpted in the the wall street journal, quote our commonwealth is in uncharted waters and many of you are undoubtedly left confused and uncertain what the future holds. you have placed your trust in me to lead virginia forward and i plan to do that. so he is digging in, and again, it has been a week but who would have thought
coverage all over again. 100%. how does she escape it? she does what she probably should have done is enough. i m not talking about this. if i m in a town hall, and a voter comes up to me and asks why i did this, i will explain all day why i did this. i will not play trump s game. i will not play the media s game. what about me? because i covered hillary. literally looking at me. e-mail. they, you know, what senator warren did, last october, to try to put this to bed, was a car wreck. but she had to do it. it was never going to be pretty. it was important that she tried to put it behind her. or to have an answer. at least the answer is, i have explained the best i can. it might not be the answer you want and it might be a boring answer but it is the truth and i am going to talk about what people want to talk about. again, they want to talk about this, i will. but i am not going to let this