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deal with the messaging on the ukraine, on all the scandals going on. harris: josh kraushaar, political editor for the national journal. great to have you. thank you very much. i am harris. here is dana. dana: president trump said to speak any moment as the fight over impeachment hits a new level. hello, everyone. i m dana perino and this is the daily briefing. president trump is about to hold a joint news conference with the president of finland but the big focus right now obviously, impeachment. the president attacking what he s calling the do-nothing democrats, accusing them of wasting time and not focusing on other issues. president trump also going after the whistle-blower who reported on his july call with the ukrainian president. they come up with this impeachment nonsense and everyone knows. all based on one phone call that i had. there was no quid pro quo. the whistle-blower was so dishonest. the whistle-blower said terrible things about the call, but i then f ....
Loyal to the president, trying to limit the scope in order to speed it through and make it seem like it was a pro forma process. schumer on the other hand wants to broaden it. it s a different arena. dana: martha, what about the congressional republicans who you have some of the president s supporters out there or defending but there s a lot they don t know. there seems to be some hesitation and letting the president take the lead as he seems happy to do or willing to do, seems like the safer bet. martha: you ve got that situation on both sides of the equation. democrats and trump districts and on the republican side with people who might be forced to take a vote that might be more difficult for them and perhaps because of their electorate they re going to be more cautious. on the senate side, cory gardner, thom tillis, martha mcsally, susan collins all in very difficult races as they look ahead. ....
Speaking. does this misstep that we were just talking about, does it hurt? is this just mcconnell really just trying to get his say into this process? you know, richard, i don t think so. i actually think senator mcconnell s proposal was a pretty good one regardless of who is president. president obama or then governor romney. the notion that this country every 12, 14 month is going to have this hostage taking by congress over a debt ceiling is not a way to run, you know, the largest enterprise in the world, the united states government. there s nothing in the constitution that talks about a debt ceiling. this has become kind of in the past a pro forma process that has now turned into a financial armageddon each time it comes about and i do think granting the president these additional rights and then allowing congress with a two-thirds vote to say, hold on here, that might be a more appropriate way ....
As a result because they have no interest in protecting consumers they refused to allow his nomination to come up for a vote. president obama allowd that process to go on for long enough and he went to bat for consumers. used his authority to recess appoint him so that the consumer protection bureau can get up and running and quite frankly what the republicans are trying to do is use a pro forma process process to try to block his nomination and his appointment. that is unfair and it is antigovernment. chris: wait. let me move on. let me chairman, let me move on. congresswoman, while republicans are just beginning to pick your nominee, their nominee, rather, your party has been putting out ad after ad targeting mitt romney and in fact during the debate last night the dnc cent out several e-mails going after romney but no one else. why all the focus by your party ....
No interest in protecting consumers they refused to allow his nomination to come up for a vote. president obama allowd that process to go on for long enough and he went to bat for consumers. used his authority to recess appoint him so that the consumer protection bureau can get up and running and quite frankly what the republicans are trying to do is use a pro forma process process to try to block his nomination and his appointment. that is unfair and it is antigovernment. chris: wait. let me move on. let me chairman, let me move on. congresswoman, while republicans are just beginning to pick your nominee, their nominee, rather, your party has been putting out ad after ad targeting mitt romney and in fact during the debate last night the dnc cent out several e-mails going after romney but no one else. why all the focus by your party on mitt romney? ....