testimony she gave as being described today as inconsistent. it s around her role and knowledge about a lesh hush money scheme that helped send michael cohen to jail. documents released yesterday show hope writing cohen in a text message about the press activity around an article around donald trump s catch-and-kill operation when it came to women. and that is where we start with some of our favorite reporters and friends. with us at the table former u.s. attorney joyce vance, former acting solicitor general neil cattal and associate editor for real clear politics, and the rev al sharpton, host of politicsnation here on msnbc. he s also the president of the national action network. let me start with you two on mueller. it s hard to imagine a point in time, even in this presidency when democrats would have had to work to return the country s intention back to mueller. it was such a focus for not just
here and how that will be different, we should expect, shouldn t we, that a number of the questions from some of these republican lawmakers are not going to be about the mueller report. they re going to be about the makeup of the team and the origins of the investigation. right. republicans have been pursuing this line of inquiry for a while, that mueller s team was bias, that mueller s team had people on it that were clearly anti-trump. t the angry democrats line that they were saying before. so they re going to use their time not to try to boltster the report but to undermine the report itself. that s going to create a split on both of the panels that you see. oftentimes in these situations the members end up sparring with each other as much as questioning the witness. i think that there s going to be a lot of focus on mueller, but you might see very dramatic expressions from people on the gop side if they don t get
politics are, the myrrh occurian side of the thermometer, they slip through your hands. if you grab on too hard, they slip through. what are the parameters of the possible politics next week? the politics is you re looking at whether or not you can really establish with a public forum that mueller could not clear the president. so with all of i agree with her that the republicans are going to try to tear the investigation apart. you can t say we accept he said there was no collusion but the same investigators and all were wrong to say they could not exonerate him. they ve got to stay on that and they have to keep the focus on mueller and the report and not grandstand and try to win votes and facebook likes. they ve got to be very clear that we are here to get the truth and you have given us this report where you clearly said that i can see beyond a shadow of the doubt my investigation does not prove collusion but we
made up their mind first and respiratory failure, enlargeed hearts and fluid on the lungs. then holding the hearings. the last three cases had that that s sort of backwards in common. wouldn t you say? i m concerned about the they should call witnesses who possibility of a toxin, bill. not that there shouldn t be have first-hand knowledge of what happened and who have no underlying natural causes here but what precipitated the sudden death is the question. privilege to assert. not john dean from 45 years ago. and the toxicology reports take i don t get it. a long time. bill: he is in your camp on i want everyone to know it is that. today you have judiciary not they re delaying it in this committee. on wednesday you have intel case. committee. it takes three to four weeks tomorrow you ve got this vote on contempt with bill barr and for a toxicology report to come don mcgahn. it is all about satisfying and back. they have to confirm and keeping a focus on mueller. how do you see that?
pennsylvania avenue donald trump was tweeting. and that s that s where we are. and it s not just about them. and i understand the focus on mueller. obviously. but we have to figure out a way the 51% of the country that tends to drive things dsh needs to decide, that level of behavior in the presidency what we want to endure? and are you willing to set a precedent where a president gets away with the things that mueller laid out? and the attorney general can dismiss it all he wants. but the facts are there. i i think it s a really interesting question about if if not now when. if you don t proceed to impeachment or at least to have hearings and raise the question not just about his fitness for office. in isn t about that. this is about overt attempts to