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motivations with kqed politics editor scott shafer. welcome to kqed newsroom. thank you for having me. you re spending a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars on ads calling for the impeachment of president trump. you ve never held office. you ve never run for office. why are you, tom steyer, the guy to be saying it s time to impeach the president? well, i don t think it s at all about me actually, scott. what we re really trying to do is empower the voice of the american people. what we re doing is letting, at this point, over 4 million people put their voices together to say this is a dangerous president. he s unfit for office. we need to get him out. so it really isn t at all about me. we re not convincing anyone to do this, i assure you that. we re enabling them to put together a collective national voice to speak up to elected officials. as you know, you re getting a lot of pushback from democrats, starting with house minority leader nancy pelosi, w ....
he discussed his political motivations with kqed politics editor scott shafer. welcome to kqed newsroom. thank you for having me. you re spending a lot of money, tens of millions of dollars on ads calling for the impeachment of president trump. you ve never held office. you ve never run for office. why are you, tom steyer, the guy to be saying it s time to impeach the president? well, i don t think it s at all about me actually, scott. what we re really trying to do is empower the voice of the american people. what we re doing is letting, at this point, over 4 million people put their voices together to say this is a dangerous president. he s unfit for office. we need to get him out. so it really isn t at all about me. we re not convincing anyone to do this, i assure you that. we re enabling them to put together a collective national voice to speak up to elected officials. as you know, you re getting a lot of pushback from democrats, starting with house mino ....
move into the final stages in vienna. the stakes are very, very high. we will not rush and we will not be rushed. i m glad they re not trying to meet some artificial deadline. gwen: will any deadline hold? and on the campaign trail war tests grow and donald trump and his tough stand on immigration become the issue du jour. mr. trump: i will build a better world and cheaper and mexico will pay. the first rule in politics is when you re in a hole, stop digging. gwen: the leading democrat seizes on the disarray to tar the entire field with the same brush. hillary clinton: i don t care how many people running for president on the republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on immigrants. gwen: is the trump factor hurting the g.o.p.? covering the week, susan davis congressional correspondent for u.s.a. today, yochi dreazen managing editor for foreign policy magazine, and karen tumulty of the washington post. award-winning report ....
move into the final stages in vienna. the stakes are very, very high. we will not rush and we will not be rushed. i m glad they re not trying to meet some artificial deadline. gwen: will any deadline hold? and on the campaign trail war tests grow and donald trump and his tough stand on immigration become the issue du jour. mr. trump: i will build a better world and cheaper and mexico will pay. the first rule in politics is when you re in a hole, stop digging. gwen: the leading democrat seizes on the disarray to tar the entire field with the same brush. hillary clinton: i don t care how many people running for president on the republican side try to demean immigrants, insult immigrants, cast aspersions on immigrants. gwen: is the trump factor hurting the g.o.p.? covering then week, susan davis congressional correspondent for u.s.a. today, yochi dreazen managing editor for foreign policy magazine, and karen tumulty of the washington post. award-winning repor ....
chow dropped his attorneys filed a court motion claiming he was unfairly targeted by the government s politically tainted selective prosecution. chow s lawyers write the fbi alleged ed lee took substantial bribes in exchange for favors and that federal prosecutors gave lee and other public officials a pass, ignoring overwhelming evidence against them. mayor lee has denied the allegations. so have board of supervisors president london breed and alameda county assistant district attorney charmin bach mentioned in the filing. walk has been placed on paid leave. the chronicle reports both the city attorney and district attorney are investigating claims pertaining to the case. joining us now are marisa lagos kqed s politics and government reporter. rory middle, former federal prosecutor and professor at hastings college of law. welcome to you both. let me begin with you. federal prosecutor, you know how these public corruption cases work. if you were mayor lee how worr ....