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Some really sad news to report to you this morning, if you're just tuning in. congressman elijah cummings has died at the age of 68. his office released a press release that he passed away at 2:45 at johns hopkins hospital, concerning long-standing health challenges. this is a longstanding, long-serving public servant. cummings the chairman of committee on oversight and reform. rachael bade joins us this morning, a reporter from "the washington post." sad news to start with from today. he is a central figure in the impeachment proceedings. he's a longstanding member of congress. a lifelong pub...

The patriots or the red sox. you also know that his hatred of politics is genuine and longstanding, and he loves the u.s. military. >> yeah. i know mark extremely well. when he was a colonel in the pentagon, i was a three-star officer. and i needed somebody to brief don rumsfeld, a famously difficult secretary of defense to brief. we settled on mark millie. fellow princeton graduate. mark was also captain of the hockey team at princeton. he's a tough, flinty new englander. you categorize it perfectly. that photograph is an image of how the military wants to stay out of politics. mark millie is...

Husband of kellyanne conway, a close adviser of the president, but he's been a longstanding, conservative lawyer who likes lots of things that the president may have done, including the appointments of supreme court justices that some liberals may not appreciate. so for a person like that to say over and over and over again, and come on my podcast and otherwise write articles in newspapers saying it's enough already, that he's prepared to vote for democrats over this president because of his lack of fitness and because of his continued violations of the constitution, that's significant, i thin...

Crucial conclusion, right? to knowing that vladimir putin directed russian intervention and this is as important and significant and longstanding of a source in the russian government had. the reason the united states did this and pulled this person out of moscow was fear that trump could expose this person. do you think that president trump would purposefully have given that information to the russians or would it just have been out of cluelessness? >> well, the president can do any number of things wittingly or unwittingly. i can't comment on the merits of that extraordinarily sensitive stor...

Congress? >> but congress has the authority. the question is, is there the will? the question is, is there the courage? what i have witnessed is that on so many of the biggest and most fundamental issues in the two years that i've been there, congress is just not acting. and you know -- and so where it fails to act and where there is a longstanding and deep need for action by the american people then where the authority exists, exists in the executive branch to use executive power and take executive action, i'm prepared to do it. i believe in just getting stuff done. and for some of the issues...