America. We talk about testing of the guardrails. In most cases the guardrails of democracy have held up. In this case we might find out that bill barr broke one of those guardrails and we are still dealing with it. All right. This is as good a place to end as any. My thanks today to joyce, frank, matt. That does it for this hour. Thank you so much for watching not just this hour but all day long. Were grateful to all of you. Mtp daily with my friend chuck todd starts now. Well, if its wednesday, its no ordinary hump idea. Its meet the press daily. And we are in the center of a break news storm right now, sort of the postmueller wrapups. Youre looking live at capitol hill where in just a few moments we expect to hear from house
speaker nancy pelosi, jerry nadler, and adam schiff after muellers historic testimony. The biggest question perhaps is what do democrats do now . As we speak, weve been getting tape of the president who is speaking to reporters at the white house. No surprise he
report and all of the ways mueller found president trump tried to impede and obstruct the investigation into russia s interference and the russia-related investigation into him and members of his campaign and members of his administration. there aren t specific articles of impeachment that are about that scandal in 2016. but what they are nailing him on and what they are about to impeach him on is his behavior toward ukraine. and they are explicitly noting i didn t expect this but they are explicitly noting that his behavior toward ukraine fits the pattern of what he did with russia for the 2016 election too. and when democrats talk about the speed with which they re moving forward in these impeachment proceedings, that s what they said today, that they need to move quickly now in advance of the 2020 election to try to deter him from inviting and trying to further extort foreign powers into interfering in the 2020 election on his behalf as well. politico.com reporting tonight
of the second article of impeachment. the second article of impeachment, same thing. quote, these actions were consistent with president trump s previous efforts to undermine u.s. government investigations into foreign interference in u.s. elections. so, no, they did not do a separate article of impeachment against president trump about president trump welcoming russia s interference in the 2016 elections and him, you know, trying to take maximum advantage of their interference in our election at his behalf. and no, they didn t do a separate article of impeachment based on volume 2 of the mueller report and all the ways mueller found president trump tried to impede and obstruct it investigation into russia s interference and the russia related investigation into members of his campaign and members of his administration. there aren t specific articles of impeachment that are about that scandal in 2016.
really wasn t going to watch the hearing. well, listen to this. so, i wasn t going to watch at all, and then i started thinking about it and then i watched a little bit at the very beginning and i couldn t believe what i was seeing. i ended up watching more than i wanted to. then i watched the afternoon because, you know, it was such a big crater at the beginning, and i said now i have to watch i have to watch shifty shift because he just went through three hours and now he has to go through schiff. and i said this is going to be very interesting. and i ve never seen anything like it. so, he s not going to watch but he watched a lot. yeah, yeah, yeah, he was always going to watch. i mean, to sort of fact check what his statement was there, oh, i wasn t sure if i was going to watch. he was always going to watch. he was always thinking about this big day, which was built up obviously by democrats. in some ways mueller delivered, in some ways he didn t in the performance aspect, b
i said now i have to watch i have to watch shifty shift because he just went through three hours and now he has to go through schiff. and i said this is going to be very interesting. and i ve never seen anything like it. so, he s not going to watch but he watched a lot. yeah, yeah, yeah, he was always going to watch. i mean, to sort of fact check what his statement was there, oh, i wasn t sure if i was going to watch. he was always going to watch. he was always thinking about this big day, which was built up obviously by democrats. in some ways mueller delivered, in some ways he didn t in the performance aspect, but the substance was pretty damning for this president. this is what this president does. he watches tv. he watches tv a lot. he may have watched more tv than all other previous presidents combined. this is the way he understands the world. he s not much of a reader. this is the way he gets his information. so it s not surprising. it is, you know, it s not a very good co