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View in browser APRIL 19, 2019 Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Friday became the first Democratic presidential candidate to call on the House to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Warren told Rachel Maddow tonight that her announcement was based on her reading of the Mueller report. “This is about a point of principle,” said Warren on MSNBC. “The report is absolutely clear that a foreign government attacked our electoral system to help Donald Trump. He welcomed that help, and then when it was investigated by our own federal authorities, Donald Trump took multiple steps to try to obstruct justice. This isn’t about politics. This isn’t even specifically about Donald Trump himself. It is about what a president of the United States should be able to do and what the role of Congress is in saying ‘no, a president does not get to come in and stop an investigation about a foreign power that attacked this country, or about an investigation about his own wrongdoing.‘“
Sen. Kamala Harris did not rule out impeachment during a conversation with Chris Hayes on Thursday night. Sen. Amy Klobuchar told reporters at a campaign stop in New Hampshire Friday that "the key thing" for her was to have special counsel Robert Mueller testify before the Judiciary Committee.
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg told NBC News on Friday that while there's “evidence that this president deserves to be impeached,” he is not in Congress so will leave it those who are to decide.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, meanwhile, ignored questions from reporters on the subject at a campaign stop in Greenville, South Carolina.
ICYMI: Videos from MSNBC Today Trump suddenly turns on Mueller report calling some portions 'total bullsh*t'Trump made a sudden about-face on the Mueller report, saying information was fabricated just one day after proclaiming the report exonerated him. The 11th Hour panel discusses.
Indicted Rep. Duncan Hunter's legal situation got complicated when he posted a video of himself crossing what he claimed was the U.S.-Mexico border. (All In)
Chris Matthews wonders what Trump supporters would think if the “litany of horrors” in the Mueller report came out against Hillary Clinton.
Quote of the Day —John Heilemann on AG Barr's press conference shortly before the release of the Mueller Report (video)
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Analysis and Opinion ANALYSIS: While the Mueller report gave us a window into the special counsel's thinking, here's what remains unanswered about his decision on obstruction. Would Mueller have charged Trump with obstruction had he not been the president? Did Mueller want Congress to rule on obstruction? What were the disagreements between Mueller's team and Barr's team over obstruction? What did Mueller mean when he talked about "other possible personal motives" for Trump's behavior? by Julia Ainsley, NBC News National Security reporter.
OPINION: Mueller report says no collusion, but reveals how often Trump must be saved from himself
Road Warrior Dispatch: The View from Florida from Garrett Haake We chose to post up in Pinellas County, an Obama/Trump flip and one of the narrowest GOP wins of 2016, hoping to meet thoughtful, “swing” voters and pick their brains.
What we found instead mirrored what we heard from the rest of the country: voters attitudes were baked in. Whether it was Jerry Angelo, a retired sports executive we googled later— he used to be the GM of the Chicago Bears— or college students from one of the nearby campuses, opinions on Trump are baked in by now.
And so, all day Thursday our team dipped iced coffee in the shade, scrolling through the report on our cell phones, and periodically stopping anyone we could get to chat. We heard the same thing: it’s not surprising.
Maybe the quality of the reporting over the last two years deadened the shock of what Mueller and team put to paper, but these Floridians, and the occasional tourists, almost uniformly shrugged off Thursday’s revelations.
A programming note from Ari There’s Passover and Easter and resting and Game of Thrones.. but also... this special on Sunday night! Sometimes American politics feels like a spirited book club where no one’s read the book.
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