Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20191114 21:23

CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper November 14, 2019 21:23:00

ability to do that. and you heard early on from this president, there was a line in one of his state of the union speeches where he said something like, as long as there are investigations, there'll be no legislation. it sort of rhymed awkwardly. so that's that what they want to paint the democrats as do-nothing democrats. you hear that from this president all the time. but listen, he is obsessed with this impeachment in the way that he was with the mueller probe, as well. so i don't think he's going to be able to compartmentalize. >> i covered the impeachment in 1998. and what was so striking is that you had a small group of people in the white house,like paul begala, joe lockhart, who was the press secretary, who dealt with impeachment 24 hours a day. and the rest of the people had nothing to do with it. and they were just going about their business. and if you remember, even in the president's famous -- when he fingered -- he said, i don't, i didn't know that miss lewinsky, he said, i need to go back to work for the american people. >> it sounded very similar, right. >> and that was a phrase he used

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