Not publicly to others, but privately to themselves.
Democratic Rep. Don Beyer, whose Virginia district holds perhaps the nation's most dense concentration of defense contractors, said the latest Comey issue peaked while the Virginia delegation was meeting with executives from shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries. Do they wince when he speaks from his gut, not from his head, regardless of consequences? "This is where I stand, I will not be moved". An EU official said next week's summits should go fine even though underlying differences and tensions are unlikely to be overcome.
It's unclear. First, it would need to be established that Trump acted in a corrupt manner, and as Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, wrote in conservative publication National Review, that is extremely hard to do. Trump is likely to be protected by his Republican allies. "He is a conservative capitalist and that's what our country needs", Spurrier told me a year ago. "I don't know yet". In my daily orbit, I hear from these people much more than from Trump's base, which is what prompted this column.
As for Comey, whom Trump fired last week, the FBI director wrote in a memo after a February meeting at the White House that the new president had asked him to shut down the FBI's investigation of Flynn and his Russian contacts, said a person who had read the memo. Within hours after that statement, the White House boiled over with even more turmoil.
King's impeachment comment came in the immediate aftermath of the Times story, and it quickly ricocheted across national news outlets and social media. "I hope you can let this go", Mr Trump is alleged to have told Mr Comey. Subsequent reports by the New York Times revealed that Trump had pressured Comey for loyalty and asked him to curtail the FBI's investigation. "We put out a statement last night".
"Was the president's expressing his "hope" an exercise of coercion or pressure?"
Trump campaign officials first became aware of a problem with Flynn's business dealings in early November. "But if he did tell Comey to lay off Flynn, it's obstruction".
The claims of White House involvement in the Watergate cover-up remained there until July 1974, when, after a year-long battle for access to the tapes Nixon recorded of his conversations resulted in the release of the June 23, 1972, "smoking gun" tape of the conversation between Haldeman and Nixon in which the president signed off on having the Central Intelligence Agency block the investigation.
Trump wanted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop the probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his ties to Russian Federation, according to reports citing sources who saw a memo written by Comey.
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"If the allegations are true, yes", the Michigan Republican said when asked if the allegations are grounds for impeachment.
That committee conducts an investigation and draws up articles of impeachment.
Before Tuesday's breaking news about Trump, he's been making alarming headlines on an nearly daily basis. "He was concerned", said the associate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
As special prosecutor, Mueller will have all the same powers as a USA attorney, though he will still ultimately report to Rosenstein. With a nervous eye to the mid-term elections scheduled for next year, most Republicans therefore consider attacking the president potentially suicidal. When a reporter asked afterward whether he still supports the president, Ryan was reported to have answered, "I do". Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell replied curtly, "No".
"But I think it would be helpful to have less drama coming from the White House", he added, echoing thoughts from all of us.
If anyone is at all surprised by Trump's actions and attitude since being sworn in, you weren't paying attention during his campaign.
So who do we believe?
The people close to Flynn said he believed that when that warning did not dissuade Trump from making him national security adviser, the Justice Department opened its investigation into his lobbying work.
Donald Trump is both the cause and effect of the political and social crisis that has now befallen the United States.
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