Appeals court ruling for many investigate what happened in months to come?co it s quite possible that it 2016 and blame yourselves, in could be several moreit months, fact blame ukrainians for what and then there may be the supreme court. exactly. russia did in 2016 or we won t give you hundreds of millions of mcgahn appeal to the supreme dollars in military aid. court and conceivably, that it s extorsion it s right there in the phon could take another many months, we didn t need much more by an year, more? investigation. it depends on whether it s we didn t need nine hours of this term or gets pushed over to hearing on it. the next term, yes. we just need articles of xt and given this delay impeachment. illustrated bys the mcgahn this argument that ukraine example specifically, would you doesn t object, that s crazy. agree if we go to court to of course ukraine is not going enforce the investigative to object to anything donald committee subpoenas, we could face anothersu month
Terms of global affairs, it s been a pretty darn good record. the american people, the polls despite the drumming he takes from guys like you, brian, his polls have been pretty remarkably high. he s going into the last year of his first term and he s being hit with impeachment. you have to ask yourself if it s political. the polls have been certainly low. regards to whether there s been crimes committed, judge andrew napolitano see evidence of criminality. are you choosing to tune that out? i can t speak for the judge. you know, i ve seen i ve certainly seen some of the things he s said. what is the crime that was committed? you know, i have a a lot of people have a short-term memory. conspiracy, extorsion, bribery. i will leave that to the lawyers, but to say there s no evidence of a crime just seems like a stretch to me. hey, hey, let s leave it to us to discuss. remember the initial press
With the president of the united states has engaged in ex torsion. i ll withhold a quarter of a billion dollars in military aid and you will exceed to my request to give me political dirt on a prospective political opponent. that is way beyond the pale. and for those who are sitting on the fence or not sure, i think absolutely. this is the tipping point and i think you re going to see overwhelming, certainly democratic response to those developments by calls for impeachment and i think our caucus today will probably go there. do you believe that impeachment at this point is inevitable? i do. i believe this president has engaged in an abuse of office that is unique in the history of the united states. it cannot be tolerated. and the consequences of doing nothing, of not impeaching him, are essentially to tell future presidents there is no limit, there are no boundaries. you mentioned the caucus meeting, this happening later on this afternoon. a significant one, staff only
Year. eric schwarz is the president of refugees international. he joins me from washington. we just laid it out there in terms of statistics, but the state department s own travel advisory says gang activity such as extorsion, narcotics trafficking is widespread. this is mirrored in a state department report from 2018. eric, from your perspective, what is this all about? well, i think the agreement is designed to keep central americans, hondurans and el salvad salvadorans out of the united states but it s grow tess being and it s mischievous because it uses the language of refugee protection. it uses the language of refugee protection to attempt to execute an agreement which is going to have dramatic impact on the lives of thousands of central americans. it essentially says that any
Reporting about the immigration deal haled by president trump and some republicans after it averted the president s threat to impose tariffs on mexico. the new york times says the agreement consisted of largely of actions mexico had promised to take in prior discussions with the united states. the tooims cites both sides and yesterday my colleague amitriptyline alex witt whether this was actually a good deal for his country? i think it s a terrible deal for mexico. we re doing the united states dirty work for it, but if the choice was tariffs or this bad deal, probably this bad deal is better. if you don t do what i want, i will slap tariffs on you. that s pretty much what i call extorsion. the proof of it is president trump backed off the minute he got most of what he wanted. he calls it extorsion.