but in the moment here s the headline, here s what s driving our coverage throughout the day, this bright, shiny object the president just pulled out of thin air and is now placed in the middle of the conversation. i want to ask you about a letter from adam schiff, open letter to republican colleagues. schiff writes, many of you acknowledged your deep misgivings about the president in quiet conversations in the last two years. you bemoaned his lack of decency, integrity, and deplored his fundamental inability to tell the truth but for reasons that are all too easy to comprehend, you choose to keep your misgivings and rising alarm private. this must end. the time for silent disagreement is over. you must speak out. how many of us have been in those conversations with folks who lament and bemoan and decry the sheer stuff that comes out of tweets and pronouncements and press conferences. and then when they get in front of a camera, they get in front of reporters and others, they clam
writing, when the president attacked the independence of the justice department by intervening in a case in which he is implicated, you did not speak out. when he attacked the press as an enemy of the people, you again were silent. and now he comes for congress, seeking to strip it of its greatest power that of the purse. you have chosen to keep your misgivings and your rising alarm private. that must end. you must speak out. katie, i love this. rising alarm! katie: i don t trust adam schiff at all. i m sure there are some republicans every scene on the record that are saying, we don t like this national emergency. mike lee, a constitutionalist, said it s unconstitutional but it s legal. the way they proceeded to the legislative branch for years and years. their other republican saying publicly that they don t like the way the branch has been abused. but for adam schiff think that that republicans on capitol hill are going to be allies with him after everything he has done an
and just to basically pass the moment is something that we ve seen him do before. obviously, this is such a serious issue that it would have dire sort of consequences. and that s what people around him are afraid of. and his clapback on that will be you guys will clean it up. we ll get back to washington. if i said something or did something that s not good, clean it up. but in the moment here s the headline, here s what s driving our coverage throughout the day, this bright, shiny object the president just pulled out of thin air and is now placed in the middle of the conversation. i want to ask you about a letter from adam schiff, open letter to republican colleagues. schiff writes, many of you acknowledged your deep miss givings about the president in quiet conversations in the last two years. you bemoaned his lack of decency, integrity, and deplored his fundamental inability to tell the truth but for reasons that are all too easy to comprehend, you choose to keep your misgivings
president trump. in a scathing open letter published in the washington post, schiff appeals largely to republicans, writing, many of you have acknowledged your deep misgivings about the president in quiet conversations over the past two years. you have bemoaned his lack of decency, character, and integrity. you have deplored his fundamental inability to tell the truth. but for reasons all too easy to comprehend, you have chosen to keep your alarm private. that must end. the time for silent disagreement is over. you must speak out. joining me now is someone not elected to speak out, john brennan who served of course as the cia director for president obama. he s an nbc senior intelligence analyst. the republicans have been reluctant to stand up to the president on these corps issue . adam schiff captured it well. mr. trump is a deeply flawed