passion twice last week. once when he talked about calling the border patrol head to task about children in cages. let s be real. we renorwegians. we re caging black and brown people. that s what cummings was confronting him with. that was the truth. the second thing cummings did after robert mueller testified was say, this is a moment when we dance with the angels. people will ask us, what did you do? what did you do to stop what was happening in this country? that was a key we have a president working for putin, not for us. they bring up the scarcity argument. they were fine with the tax cut for corporations next are not fine with helping poor people. every time democrats talk about conditions at the border, every time democrats say we need to do something for humane immigration, trump will bring up, well, why don t we take care of homeless people? here is a radical thought.
all right. if you don t mind hanging on for a few more minutes with us as we get to top of the hour and we welcome some new viewers who might be joining us here on the east coast and west coast. the breaking news is there s possibly another big shakeup. dan coats is expect eed to step down soon. it s been rumored for quite some time. he had an especially sharp exchange with robert mueller this week during the special counsel hearing earlier this week and the president liked that performance.
i don t have any reporting in my story about dan coats intention to step down or timing on stepping down. in the last couple of weeks r radcliff has firmed as his favorite. as with anything with donald trump, he would change his mind at the last minute. pretty confident he will pick radcliff. i m seeing you reporting right here. there was something that happened behind the scenes, in particularly this week that made this texas republican congressman gold in the president s eyes. the president was thrilled by radcliff s admonishment of robert mueller in last week s
what s going on we don t need it. what s going on is that i think too much has been made of the phrase impeachment inquiry. so, clearly there s confusion on capitol hill and outside capitol hill this weekend as the house judiciary chair jerry nadler there tries to tamp down impeachment talks. it comes after his committee revealed that lawmakers need to see mueller s secret grand jury evidence to determine whether to introduce articles of impeachment. watch as democrats try to clarify their stance today. you are investigating possible impeachment. but you haven t formally opened an impeachment inquiry. we re not trying to have it both ways. there are articles of impeachment that have been recommended to the committee. we are investigating.
military reception ceremony and the president attended that just a few days ago. the fact is, they have so many acting secretaries to get someone confirmed now. congress is gone. the senate would have to hold hearings in september. this is the most important intelligence job in our government. we have a very well respected cia director but the director of national intelligence sees things that the individual agency heads don t see and have that broad overview is very important. to have a shake up right now for personal and petty reasons. not for any cause is pretty extraordinary. i think that especially if he s going to be replaced by someone who is not fact based. certainly the questions that congressman radcliff asked at the hearing of mueller were not fact based.