Dishonesty or their profound cruelty nor did they accept defeat. They never do accept defeat. Why . Because when politics is your religion, acknowledging reality looks like sin and so it continues. Over the weekend the New York Times revived the attacks on Brett Kavanaugh. The newspaper ran a story excerpt from a book written by two of its reporters that claimed that while in college more than 30 years ago, kavanaugh exposed himself in effect to another student while drunk at a party. It was the flimsiest kind of charge. Where did it come from . It came second hand from a single classmate of kavanaughs, a man who worked as a left wing activist, later worked for the clintons, in fact. 20 years ago, no Credible News Organization would have run a story like that on the basis of that sourcing. The times didnt hesitate and it was picked up everywhere. Of course instantly and nbcs cable channel for example they immediately denounced Brett Kavanaugh as a gang rapist. I have never heard of a g
Wanted to reconcile before they died, and they met and they did. And maybe that is something that we can learn from, but i think that the greater thing that i would point to is the seven republicans in the johnson impeachment. If i could just read one thing to you, and everyone often talks about one of the senators, but not this one, and that is lyman trumbull, who is a fantastic senator appeared he became a great advocate for civil liberties. You have to understand that most of the senators when it was said that they jumped into their political grays, it is true. Most of their political careers ended. They knew it would end because of the animosity of the period. Trumbull said the following. He said, once the example of setting the impeachment of a president for what when the excitement of the hours subsided, will be regarded as insufficient causes. No future president will be safe who happens to differ from the majority of the house and twothirds of the senate. He said i tremble for
Charade based on nothing, except they hate losing and their sore losers. What theyve been doing, what they been up to for three long years has been hurting this country. Its hurting our country tonight. Democrats could care less. At this hour they are all jumping for joy, while theyve been pretending to be solemn and sober and somber and whatever. Even that is alive. Lets lie like we always do, lets say we did this prayerfully, but painfully. All these people have done for erree years is live. The same with their friends in the media mob. House leadership had to ask their members not to perform their victory dance in public constitutional scholars and members of congress. One of those members of congress was yes, jerry nadler himself. He chaired the democrats one week, impeachment proceeding, ivory tower professors one of which wanted to impeach trump for tweeting out the words fake news. In november of 2016, he explained, we cant wait for years to vote mr. Trump out of office so we mu
A month after giuliani spoke with ukrainians, the president threatened to withhold 250 million in military aid to ukraine. Three weeks later, investigations were launched into whether they were pressuring ukrainians to help mr. Trumps reElection Campaign. A few days after that, the Trump Administration abandoned the effort to withhold military aid. And now cnn has learned the white house and Justice Department advised the intelligence chief to withhold the whistleblowers complaint from congress. Joining us now is Washington Post congressional reporter and political analyst carmen. Thank you. With ept to get to your reporting for the Washington Post. Tell us what you know about the ukrainian connection. Well, we know this we had initially reported that the whistleblower complaint was due to President Trump making a promise to a foreign leader. Now its clear the connection is to ukraine. If we know its about ukraine, that brings into focus all the interactions he was having with the ukra
Well. Meantime, the death toll in the bahamas has risen to hi there and officials there risen to 30, and officials there say they expect more deaths. Lets head out to doug mcelway who has been there all day and all evening. Winds began to increase about 8 00 p. M. This evening. Weve not been able to detect any sign this has diminished to a category 1 storm. The wind has shifted more to the east from the north and gravitating a little to the northwest, coming at news this direction. Two good things associated with that, an indication the radar and satellite images show the storm continues to move in a northeasterly direction. No other wards, wilmington where were, to coast, directlyees of here son the west seed of the eye of the storm. That means were getting the back winds. That means were not going to see any more tornadoes in all likelihood and it also means the winds are pushing the waters of the keep fear river down south to the mouth of the river, to open water. It is not publicki