Process Doesnt Matter News Today

Pointed out earlier in this hour, a couple of weeks from now, this whole thing goes public and all of the whining about the process doesnt matter anymore. so, yeah, you can argue this is roughly the same thing that was done with benghazi, with the clinton impeachment, with watergate, but forget about the process because its going to be about the substance. so, you know, what they did is they basically wanted to have this sort of riot where the capitol police were frog marching them out of there,...

Always, my friend. and lets go back to the panel right now, starting with you, peter. the question is, what do you make of kellyannes argument on his intention? is this what the white house is left with? >> well, their defense has shifted many times over the last few weeks. first it was a perfect call. he still says it was a perfect call, but they then said there was no quid pro quo. then when bill taylor testified he did think there was a quid pro quo, said well, it couldnt be because the other...

>> theres a process to pardons that again, the presidents message yesterday was -- the process doesnt matter. the institutions dont matter. the rule of law doesnt matter. what matters is what i, donald trump, want to do of the moment. and of the moment means i want to pardon these people and heres the pardon. >> do you think just is there any chance -- were going to get to this im sure. people are drawing kind of a beautiful mind-style charts that paint the picture of the connections between tho...

All things considered. its still at the end of the day staffed by career officials. general mcmaster attempted to have a process that was very similar to every nsa director who came before so senior officials, national security officials might take comfort in the process but the process doesnt matter because donald trump is so impulsive he doesnt care about the process and hes going to rip it up and do whatever he wants anyway. >> this is the dilemma if youre mcmaster. youre the national securit...

Today, new polling, very clearly, the affordable care act is much more popular than the republican health care proposal. polls suggest that anywhere from 15 to 25% of americans like this proposal and the number is going down, not up. i think americans know what is happening here. this is all about a tax cut for the wealthy, for insurance companies and drug companies, in this senate bill, paid for by taking your health care away and jacking your rates up. so i think process doesnt matter as much ...

Reform. >> it has been done on the past. a couple of things, anderson. >> we are talking about the most important piece of social legislation in decades. the resort on a piece of legislation this big after all the back room deals that went into getting the bills done. now piling this on top of it, this form of dodging. its very dodgy. editorialized today. it weighs it down and gives it an air of illegitimacy in the eyes of those who dont like it. it will be an air of bitterness. process doesnt m...

Lot in the election of scott brown. that angered voters. >> when they said there is going to be a vote this week whether its this way or that way and the process doesnt matter, you say not true. >> well, the president has been arguing as henry said, lets have an up or down vote. they understood it to be a cleaning up or down vote where people are not voting and to go to henrio point again, what is not being voted on is the fundamental underlying legislation and they will vote on the amendments a...