same, you know, these were scathing statements about an incumbent president. if you look at corker and flake today, these are probably 9 mth most scathing speeches we ve tht you were talking about at brook and james buckley. one thing we have to remember about that last year of nixon, it finally culminated in a couple of days before nixon resigned, the republican leader of the house, republican leader of the senate, the previous republican presidential nominee barry goldwater, they all trooped up to the oval office and told president nixon, you re going to be impeached before. just in case you feel like hanging on for a senate trial, you have ten senators, maybe. and despite that t fact that unlike donald trump, nixon had a lot of long-time friends in the senate who owed him. michael, we have been, i think we have learned over time, and not just in modern
to shut down news organizations that report the truth. if that isn t a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become? i m tom steyer and, like you, i m a citizen who knows it s up to us to do something. it s why i m funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment. a republican congress once impeached a president for far less. yet, today, people in congress and his own administration know this president is a clear and present danger who is mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. and they do nothing. join us and tell your member of congress that they have a moral responsibility to stop doing what s political and start doing what s right. our country depends on it.
ask your doctor about victoza®. he s brought us to the obstructed justice at the fbi. and in direct violation of the constitution, he s taken money from foreign governments and threatened to shut down news organizations that report the truth. if that isn t a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president, then what has our government become? i m tom steyer and, like you, i m a citizen who knows it s up to us to do something. it s why i m funding this effort to raise our voices together and demand that elected officials take a stand on impeachment. a republican congress once impeached a president for far less. yet, today, people in congress and his own administration know this president is a clear and present danger who is mentally unstable and armed with nuclear weapons. and they do nothing. join us and tell your member of congress that they have a moral responsibility
it, it s upsetting. the reason i think this is a big national news story that happened today is because the release of this type of information about the sandy hook killings is likely to be particularly difficult for the families involved. not just because it s information about those killings, but particularly because the right-wing conspiracy theorists of the world, like infowars and alex jones and all these people have spent years promoting that the sandy hook killings were somehow a hoax and these families really didn t lose their kids. it s part of some government plot to come take away your guns. so this printed evidence that the fbi has just released, evidence of fbi agents interviewing every possible chance that there might have been some plot behind it, you know, all of this evidence of the legwork that the fbi did to nail down that case and what happened there, it will be taken out of context and used to torment these poor families further. we are coming up on the five-year a
michael beschloss about that spectacle and what it might mean about the trump president spcy. that s coming up a little later this hour. that story about jeff flake and the remarkable comments he made today on the senate floor, that was the story that dominated beltway media coverage today. and i think because of that there were a number of other important stories that broke today that didn t get as much attention as they might otherwise. just because the jeff flake story understandably took so much oxygen out of the room. in case you missed it, though, also today there was a sort of ridiculous scandal that broke involving secretary of state rex tillerson. while the white house and the administration are increasingly trying to present the trump presidency as a national security success story. that seems to be their new line they are pushing on the press. the security situation in afghanistan, where thousands of u.s. troops are still serving, has actually become increasingly dire over t