end of the year as it relates to the recommendations that the six committees led by the intel committee will make to the judiciary committee as it relates to potential articles of impeachment. one thing about the mulvaney reveal, that was a straight up confession. yes. of what took place. that is the correct word. appreciate your affirmation. but, listen, we re going to undertake a serious and solemn investigation as it relates to unraveling what has occurred and presenting the truth to the american people. i wanted to offer my condolences for the loss of your remarkable colleague eliejah cummings who passed away yesterday. he obviously has had an incredible career long before donald trump ever ran for office put also has been crucial as part of the oversight committee. how are you and your colleagues dealing with that loss? well, it was a very tough day on the hill. he was an incredible statesman, an incredible man, an incredible
there was speechifying and people reading a carefully drawn set of questions and when mueller gave them unexpected answers, they didn t know where to pick back up and they were putting the right emphasis on the right syllable. you had a few experience theories from a couple of republican members. they complained that fox news was not cited enough. that was a laugh out loud moment. the chairman of the two committees led in a way that was very instructive and very helpful. both nadler and schiff themselves covered so much ground so expertly and nimbly at the start. at the on set of the hearings. i think it helped and today s hearing was an exercise in public education that is going to make us smarter and make us deal with the issue in a way
table. the discipline was something i haven t seen the likes of in a long time. not to say that it was and everybody covered themselves in glory. there was speechifying and people reading a carefully drawn sez of questions and when mueller gave them unexpected answers, they didn t know where to pick back up and they were putting the right emphasis on the right syllable. you had a few experience theories from a couple of republican members. they complained that fox news was not cited enough. that was a laugh out loud moment. the chairman of the two committees led in a way that was very instructive and very helpful. both nadler and schiff themselves covered so much
people weren t requested to either provide documents or ultimately to come in and testify. this should have been going on all along. we ve been talking about norms that have been eradicated and red lines that have been crossed and crossed and crossed again and, you know, at some point you ve got to sort of keep an accounting of that and start trying to this is basically trying to catch up on what should have happened for the last two years. mike, we know one thing, it s going to be an exhausting year and a half between waiting for the mueller investigation intel in the house and the senate committees and now you have this sweeping six or seven committees led by democrats investigating the president. not that they shouldn t be, it s their job of oversight but, man, it s going to be a long year and a half. and volume of daily, almost
six or seven committees led by democrats. they wanted the information about these meetings since when this happened. we still don t know what happened in the meeting between trump and putin in helsinki when they met for two hours. this is going to be the back drop for the next two years. this is the back drop of the campaign, of his reelection bid. on the one hand they re going to be under siege, that is going to be tough to sort of mount any sort of positive message from this white house when this is happening, but at the same time, this allows him to claim, as we have seen, presidential harassment. that s his new twitter trope. he s going to say we re under attack and the idea of government overreach, democratic overreach, is going to be the theme day to day. i m the victim here and if you want the government to work, you know, come back to me, doesn t give them this power.