Jeff Sessions Resigns

[Dill]

(11-07-2018, 05:40 PM)Au165 Wrote: Basically the thought is, they'd simply hold a televised hearing subpoena what would have been the report and have Mueller read what he was going to submit as anyways for the world to hear. The damage would be done and then they'd use that information to push for whatever it is they would use the official report for anyways. 

Yes, that would be a likely response.

But I think there might be more to it, in that you have a president shutting down an investigation of his own campaign.  Depending on what is in the report, that verges towards impeachable offense.

Trump also has to know the result of a shutdown could be a dump of his tax returns and other private info into the public domain.  Maybe the only choice is sooner or later and he chooses sooner.

It will be interesting to see what they try to do, and how the House responds, now that Dems are in charge of the intel committee. And how the WH/Fox counter.

Some commentator once asked if Nixon would have been impeached if Fox news had existed in the early '70s.