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and joining me now is senator angus king of maine, an independent who caucuses with the democrats. also part of the intelligence committee there. senator king, welcome back to "meet the press," sir. >> great to be with you, chuck. >> well, obviously a pretty eventful week. at the end of it you have the justice department, if you will, in the southern district of new york, pretty explicitly implicating the president in a crime. and michael cohen then adding to it saying that his testimony, false testimony to congress, was something that was known in advance by some folks in and around the president. what are your takeaways from this week's developments, and what should congress now do? >> well, i think you outlined in your tape there many of the questions that are raised by those filings, and they're really a separate series of filings, but the cohen ones are pretty disturbing. the key phrase to me is directed by individual 1, which everyone knows is president trump. directed by implicates the president in a felony. now, the president can have some defenses left. i think we should ma

quickly, delodelores angus king has been said he should be scared over this.ere a reason to indict the president over the totality. >> it's the power the house holds. congress will see all of it presumably when mueller sends them a report, and it's hard to believe that based on just what we know publicly that it doesn't tip congressmen's scales because they don't have to prove an illegal crime. certainly lying to the people, failing to disclose dealings with russia, campaign finance violations, all of that taken together would be more than enough for anyone to rationally consider impeachment. >> thank you very much for the conversation. much appreciated of t. >>> joining us, someone who said defrauding the house committee may not make it to the level of impeachment, so is that even in the cards? i really didn't expect to learn so many interesting details. ancestrydna was able to tell me where my father's family came from in columbia. they pinpointed the columbian and ecuador region and then there's a whole new andean region. that was incredibly exciting becaus

>>chris: senator angus king joins us. plus - - >> we do not want a trumpet temper tantrum to cover in our policies. >>chris: we will ask our sunday panel if the government shutdown is now unavoidable. and our "power player of the week". >> the pilot said tom, you stay here, you die. >>chris: one american heroes act of devotion you will never forget. >> thomas shouted that we will be back for you somehow, someday. >>chris: all right now on "fox news sunday". hello again from fox news in washington. the trump administration is getting a makeover. on his way to the army/navy game yesterday, the president announced john kelly will leave by the end of the year. meanwhile, uncertainty about the u.s./china trade is - - [indiscernible]. joining us now is larry kudlow. welcome back to "fox news sunday". >> thank you chris. appreciate it. >>chris: in july, president trump said that white house chief of staff would remain on the job through 2020. now he says that kelly is out as one of the top few white house staffers bid what happe

. >> chris: senator angus king, a member of the senate intelligence committee, joins u us.lus. >> we do not want to let a trump temper tantrum trouble our policies or cause the shutdown of our government. >> chris: we will ask our panel if a government shutdown over president trump's border wall is now unavoidable. and our "power player of the week" ." >> tom, you stay here, you die. if you join jesse. >> chris: one american hero's act of devotion he will never forget. >> he said, jesse, we will be back for you somehow, someday. >> chris: all right now "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington. the trump administration is getting a makeover. on his way to the army-navy game yesterday, the president announced chief of staff john kelly will leave by the end of the year. meanwhile, uncertainty over the u.s.-china trade deal is casting a shadow over an economy that has been a bright spot for the administration. joining us now, president trump's top economic about domestic advisor, larry kudlow. welcome back to "fox news sunday." >> thank you, chris, i appre

listen to senator angus king. >> well, let me put this way.hink that there is evidence yet available to the public where there would be more or less a consensus that this was an appropriate path. my concern is that if impeachment is moved forward on the evidence that we have now, at least a third of the country would think that it was just political revenge and a coup against the president. that wouldn't serve us well at all. the best way to solve a problem like this to me is election. >> meantime we have senator chris murphy saying that it is already beyond the stage that led to impeachment providings against president clinton. doug, too soon to talk impeachment? >> the key thing is that robert mueller didn't have to indict trump for congress to impeach him. that is an important point. because what donald trump is trying to do now, he knows the mueller report will be terrible, it will have all sorts of sore rid details about his financial world and about his family dealings in russia. it will be a nightmare. but it will get -- if mueller does

senator angus king is joining us now. thanks for being back on the show. >> absolutely, hallie.d to be with you. >> this letter, you say, came together about an hour when normally something like this would come together in about a week. can you explain why you think there's any chance that president trump will reconsider after seeing this? >> some of the names on that letter are people that he normally expects support from, tom cotton is probably his biggest ally in the senate and he's on the letter along with lindsey graham, marco rubio, jim shaheen. it's a bipartisan letter but heavy on the republican side. joni ernst. the decision appears to have been made with very little, if any, consultation with any of the people who have expertise or knowledge in this area. that giant sucking sound you hear this morning is a vacuum being created in northeastern syria. into that vacuum are going to step the russians, assad, particularly isis and the iranians. it was a disastrous foreign policy decision made based upon a disastrous process, as near as i could tell. >> you mentioned russia

president, either. >> harris: so, the jumping of the shark, as they call it. >> mike: i agree with angus kingenator rubio. my democratic colleague had a good message on the previous show, and he said "caution, these ongoing investigations." everything we have is pure speculation. i dig it's also wise to be very skeptical about what's filtered through new stories. in some cases, there are selective leaks that are deliberately intended to put pressure on the white house. so, let's calm down. eddie bought her level, i know we just concluded an election that already we are in the midst of the 2020 presidential election. i don't want the vortex of 2020 to suck everything into its wake. there are two years where we can get some stuff done. i urge and beg my colleagues not to go down this road. >> harris: there is no shortage of people who go through yield signs. >> jessica: i've done a few times myself. maybe i will right now. jerry nadler, who was the one that is all kind of stops with, quite reasonable on the sunday talk shows the addict happy tapper yesterday. he said "with these be the offenses

maine's senator angus king. he shared more than his share of time on it.you so much for being with us. we just got this news. dana just talked to rudy giuliani, so it's new to me, new to you. >> yes. >> what do you make of this, of giuliani's argument that the democrats don't have a reason to get the president's tax returns? >> the first thing to say is i hope you never refer to me as a tv lawyer. i like that. that was a nice note there. no, i think -- i don't think anybody's talking about going after the president's tax returns just as a fishing expedition. i think there will be a number of investigations in the house, and there may be some rules under which getting the tax returns are appropriate. we'll just have to see how it plays out in the house. it is curious that this president is the only even candidate for president in the last 40 years not to voluntarily release their tax returns. it does raise the question what's in them. we'll have to wait to see how the process plays out 2349 house. >> there's a 1924 law that codifies that the house ways and

click or visit a retail store today. >>> joining us now is angus king. this morning and listening to some of your republican senate colleagues dismissing what they've heard from some of the prosecutors reports as well as mueller documents that we've seen that have given us some window into special counsel's investigation saying i don't believe michael cohen as a witness, orrin hatch going so far to say donald trump has been a good president, i'm not worried about what i've read and what i've seen. what's your response to your colleagues in the senate? >> well, i think there's several response. let's talk about mr. mueller first. i thought the filing last week that really should chill the white house most thoroughly was the one from michael flynn, because he's at the heart or was certainly in the room where it happens, if you will, on the relationship between the trump campaign, if any, and the russians. he was in moscow, dinner with vladimir putin in december of 2015. he was a high adviser to the president throughout the campaign in the transition, we kn

we will also be joined shortly by senator angus king of maine. i recommend checking out his instagram. he recently posted a post of him raking leaves where he said it is nice to take on a task where you can actually see tangible results. a bit of political commentary on instagram. i would like to like to remind our audience that you can tweet questions to our candidates using #postlive. we will start with some breaking news questions, and then move into the meat of the conversation about jobs and the future of work. and a you have been heavily involved with it, senator young. the big news of the day is obviously these two reports that have come out talking about russia's disinformation campaign to disrupt our collections and our democratic process in this country. ? are you confident that the outcome of the 2018 midterm election, that they were not impacted by a russian disinformation campaign? senator young: i've read some open-source articles this morning, they were actually immediately preceding this event with the understanding that this migh

and i think that angus king's remarks is consistent with that approach because we know that in the nexteeks, we are likely to get much more information as my colleagues have both indicated from robert mueller and every increment of information is bad for trump and better hastens the prospects of impeachment. >> and one of the last points that nadler made and the quote was, do these impeachment offenses -- did they rise to the gravity when you should undertake an impeachment. so laura, the question to you is, can democrats push their apology agenda without getting bogged down with an investigation? >> i don't think democrats will be doing much policy making. they don't have control of the senate, they don't have control of the white house. trump can veto anything they do. so i think the real source of their power right now is their ability to stop trump and frankly it is urgent. there a criminal in the white house. he cheated to get there. is he is abusing his power and he is using the president is i to enrich his own businesses and those of his family and to help foreign adversaries. he

we heard from angus king over the weekend and we heard from jim comey.p is not removed impeachme impeachment. it would let the country off the hook and drive into the fabric of our fashion one-third of the people believing there was a coup. >> if impeachment is moving forward on the evidence we have now, at least one-third of the country would believe it is a coup against the president. that would not serve us well. best way to solve a problem like this is elections. >> congress is reconvening and the house taken over by the democrats. what will they do with this? >> we have to see what is in the report. as of now, we know some of the story. the question is what happens when mueller's report comes out? if it is bad enough, and this is what some democrats are saying, then they have a responsibility as a majority to start the inquiry. that is how all these start. when nixon's inquiry started, many republicans said this is going to be a coup. this is all partisan. by august of 1974, they were going to the president saying time's up. we need to do this slowl

investigation among other topics with a pair of senators, republican rand paul and tidependent angus king of main. >>> we're g a look at what former fbi director jes comey told house republicans behind closed doors on friday. in testimony before the house oversight and judiciary committees, comey said he is not aware of any requests by the obama administration to spy on the trump campaign which president trump has claimed. comey also testified he wod have removed the two fbi agents from their roles in the clinton investigation ife had known at the time about their anti-trump text messages. turning overseas to paris, it's lativelyuiet today after vient protesters hit the heart of the city forhe fourth consecutive weekend. more tn 1,700 people were arrested on saturday and 71 injured. protesters are angry with french president emmanuel macron over prices.d fuel >>> and for the second year in a row, a quarterback from the university of oklahoma has won the heisman trophy given to the nation's best college football stayer. ear it was sooners quarterback baker mayfield. last night the awardent

on nbc's "meet the press" senator angus king of maine downplayed that possibility.s. >> i don't think there's evidence yet available to the public where there would be more o or less a consensus that was an appropriate path. my concern is that if impeachment is moved forward on the evidence that we have now, at least a third of the country would think it was just political revenge. >> we've got a great panel to talk all about this. i'm going to go to you. you're the former press secretary. i want to play some sound from jerry nadler, the incoming chair to the house judiciary committee who has an opinion on this possible impeachment that could be going down. let's watch this. >> you don't necessarily launch an impeachment because he committed an impeachable offense. there are several things you have to look at. one, were there impeachable offenses committed? how many? and secondly, how important were they? do they rise to the gravity where you should undertake an impeachment. >> we're kind of getting a sense as to where the democrats are at with regards to a possible

joining me now, independent senator, angus king who serves on the senate intelligence committee. >> good morning. >> i know you did not attend the briefing with gina haspel. i want to play what they had to say. >> you have to be willfully blind not to come to the conclusion that this was orchestrated and organized of people under the command of mbs and he was involved in the demise of khashoggi. >> if he was in front of a jury he would be convicted in 30 minutes. >> you said you believe the administration gave mbs a pass here. where do you stand today? >> i saw bob corker yesterday afternoon, and i disagreed with his comments, i think it would only take 20 minutes to convict. it's clear, and this is not based upon the classified information, and just based upon public source information and what we know about how saudi arabia is being run these days. there's no question that the crown prince was involved. this was not some kind of rogue operation. the administration kept saying there isn't a smoking gun, there's no direct evidence. i heard that a dozen times last week. that's not require

the ifb trick works very well for angus king.of why would general flynn not take the suggestion from the agents that they knew what he had asked about? he is an intelligence pro himself. he let them refresh his recollection with respect to the vote on israeli settlements. thank you for that. thank you for reminding me. they tell him, did you talk about sanctions? did you talk about asking about what they would do? obviously, they knew. he lied. it raises the question, who was he covering for? what did he put a higher value on than the truth in that one instance? is that something that you guys are looking at? >> again, i can't get into stuff that goes on in the committee. let's just put it this way. in these kinds of things, there may be a host of possible explanations for flynn stirring this up. was he tries to get a better deal with mueller? was he hoping for a pardon? who knows? i want to come back and -- the essence of your question is logic. here you have somebody who is an adult. he should have understood that he was lying

senator angus king, an independent of maine. he caucuses with democrats. he serves on the senate intelligence committee. i spoke to him right before airtime. senator king, the flynn court filing in its 22 fully redacted lines certainly seems to have left more questions than answers at this point. >> well, i -- anderson, i'm going to answer your question, but you have to understand that whatever i tell you does not relate to anything that i've learned on the intelligence committee. i have to lay that -- >> sure. >> -- as groundwork, and having said that, i do think it raises a lot of questions, and we understand that general flynn spent many, many hours, i think something like 19 meetings -- >> right. >> -- with the special counsel's team, and so it raises questions that he, obviously, had a lot to say -- >> it's interesting because the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, says he isn't worried, he said that if flynn had information to share with mueller that hurt the president, he said you would know it by now. that's not necessarily true, is it? >> well, th

>> let me ask you to react to something that angus king said to me on sunday, senator from maine, independentee. i asked him about all of the things we learned over the last say 96 hours in the mueller problem and whether it's time for congress to act, here's what he said to me -- >> i don't think there's evidence yet available to the public where there would be more or less a consensus that this was an appropriate path. my concern is that if impeachment is moved forward on the evidence that we have now, at least a third of the country would think it was just political revenge and a coup against the president. that wouldn't serve us well at all. the best way to solve a problem like this to me is elections. >> do you agree with the senator? there's a couple parts of that statement specifically, he said he doesn't believe there's enough evidence that we have now. do you agree with that aspect of it? do you think there is not yet enough evidence to start this impeachment process in the house or not? >> yeah, i sort of disagree with that part but agree with his conclusion. look, the bottom line i

i look at what senator angus king democrats.se yet available to the public where there would be more or less of a consensus appropriate paths. congress of one party unseats the president of another party for essentially political reasons. i don't want to create a precedent there. that makes more sense. steve: you mentioned andy mccarthy 57d he tried to explain what we learned through the sentencing memos. so michael cohen pled guilty to campaign violations, right? what mr. mccarthy says is if the president is charged he would argue it were not a campaign contribution to begin with also he writes in the same article, the standard for impeachment is high crimes and misdemeanors. and does campaign violation rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors? and mr. mccarthy says that is an open question. ainsley: there have been some that have said this is just the beginning. they predicted. this remember rush limbaugh said if democrats take the house there will be investigation after investigation. steve: absolutely. ainsley: what

generation of farmers with my friend and colleague senator heidi heitkamp of north dakota and senator angus king from maine. after visiting the good acre in fell conheights and -- falcon heights and learning about local food systems, i joined the bipartisan effort to better connect farmers with their communities. so i'm grateful for the leadership of senator sherrod brown of ohio and senator susan collins from maine on this important issue. in march i visited the cuban shy dairy in princeton, minnesota. three generations of the family run this dairy farm. as we toured their impressive operation, this family talked to me about how dairy farmers have been hit hard by low commodity prices. this is a message that was echoed by dairy farmers across the state who have been a really important part of my farm bill working group. so when i got back to washington, i was determined to help fight for strong safety net programs that support dairy farmers along with many of my senate colleagues here. a bipartisan coalition of senators from dairy states worked to make sure that this farm bill builds on the i

one is senator angus king, who is an independent. although he organizes over there with the democrats. he and his colleague, senator mark warner, a democrat from virginia, have been very involved in this issue and have introduced legislation to address the unmet needs in our parks. it's a critical issue right now. $12 billion that deferred maintenance backlog in our national parks. many of our roads and bridges and water systems and railroads in my home state, we have a railroad running through a national park, are crumbling and we need to address it. we're going to hear a little bit from senator king today about that. the other colleague i'll talk about is senator alexander. he has been a champion for parks over the years. my recollection is a few decades ago president ronald reagan named him to a commission on the outdoors probably when he was governor of tennessee, one of his many jobs he's had, including being secretary of education, and also president of the university of tennessee. but through all his jobs and will you his life

we will hear from senators angus king and todd young. this is one hour 45 minutes.

we will hear from senators angus king and todd young. this is one hour 45 minutes. [applause] >> i am kat. thank you so much for all being here today. i am the anchor of the "post ati.