The House Republicans shot themselves in the foot over and over again, first with the so-called unmasking scandal that turned out to be a nothingburger, the Nunes memo, which was an even bigger disappointment, and then their majority report. The president can't rely on that. Increasingly, he has no cover.
Eisen discusses the failures of House Republicans in their investigations and how it affects President Trump's situation.
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It's a dubious justification. Cabinet-level officials, including the Treasury Secretary travel all the time. There are a lot of other means of secure communications.
There are 2,000 kids -- over 2,000 have been cruelly separated from their parents. That is a crisis. That is a shame on the Trump presidency.
When you have a President who's announced that he's going to hang on to his businesses laden with conflicts, and when he's constantly there promoting his businesses, making money off them, it sets a tone that anything goes.
It's an abuse of the public interest for private gain that is very like the pattern in the White House.