and fully control this narrative. it s rare in the trump administration for trump to have lost the narrative but he has on this point. we can t let republicans distract us with quid pro quo, attacks on hunter biden or attacks on the whistle-blower. the president at the u.n. last monday said, of course, i pressured them to investigate is corruption. the transcript identifies one person he asked the president to investigate and it s joe biden and his family. they str what they need. the importance is to keep it clean. i think if you had a clean impeachment on abuse of power on exactly what you laid out, chris, you send it to the senate, republicans like mitt romney and other 29 senators not in cycle in 2020 will have to look twice at that very clean article. that s a good point. mcconnell is saying he would have to hold a trial if the house impeaches. jeff dplak, former senator from arizona say fellow republicans, there s still time to save your souls. i don t know, michael, if i expec
administration, honestly, for trump to have lost the narrative, but he has in this point. we can t let republicans distract us with quid pro quo, attacks on hunter biden or attacks on the whistle-blower. the president at the u.n. last monday said, of course, i pressured them to investigate is corruption. the transcript identifies one person he asked the ukraine to investigate, and it s joe biden and his family. they have what they need. the importance is to keep it clean. i think if you had a clean impeachment on abuse of power on exactly what you laid out, chris, you send it to the senate, republicans like mitt romney and other 29 senators not in cycle in 2020 will have to look twice at that very clean article. that s a great point. mcconnell saying the senate would have to hold a trial if the house impeaches. jeff flake, former senator from arizona say fellow republicans, there s still time to save your souls. i don t know, michael, if i expect a lot of road to damascus moments of
they attach to the republican party. the republican party doesn t have to let them. how how do how do republicans sort of get back to doing something decent? they would have to completely reinvent the party. look, i don t think they had a road to damascus conversion over the last couple days and decided they were going to finally try to hold steve king accountable. what happened he says that stuff in the iowa papers. his mistake was doing it in the times. control of the house changed and democrats were going to sanction him on the floor of the house. if kevin mccarthy was the speaker or paul ryan was still the speaker, his comments would have passed the same way his previous comments happened with no action at all. i think the problem for the republican party is this is now this is now the message of the party. not usually as explicit as steve king. they don t come out and endorse white supremacy. if you look at their closing argument to voters in the last election, it
the power, the experience of being in trump world and what you see in the course of her narrative is kind of this converging experience. so much so by the end of the book the last sentence is, i m free. i don t find it compelling but i understand the story. that is to say she understands that donald trump is acting in interest so he can advance his own agenda. in the end, according to the book and her, she realized it. you saw an authentic evolution. i don t call it authentic. i would say there s an attempt to narrate this converging experience, this road to damascus where she saw trump for
have, i think that we have to look at who syria s patron is. the road to damascus, to me at least, leads through moscow and tehran. absent russian backing for assad, i don t think that he would feel as empowered to use chemical weapons and to use efficient other type of terrorist tool in his tool kit to kill the syrian people. i think in the briefing that president trump gave on friday evening he mentioned diplomatic and financial pressure. if we are serious about getting russia to step back their support for assad, we have to levy costs that russia is not willing to bear like potentially additional sanctions for their support for assad. general, u.n. diplomats shared with cnn a french resolution we know is supported by the united states and united kingdom that calls for an independent investigation into the suspected chemical weapons attacks. explain the virtue of the investigation now. the u.s., the united kingdom, the french did not wait for the