Ancestry story. Now with 100 million family trees, find your story. Get started fofree at ancestry. Com. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, paper tiger. A document from the president s lawyers gives us a Breath Taking inside look at the mountain battle to come. Well dig into why the president s legal team says the president cant obstruct justice. And that he doesnt have to sit for an interview with robert mueller. Plus, the firstever admission that the president worked on the statement explaining his sons meeting with the russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. And later, an exclusive
interview with former Governor Terry mcauliffe. Well talk about everything from the Russia Investigation to the healthf his party when he joins me live onset. But first, the start of this week, believe it or not, marks 500 days of the trump administration, and the Mueller Investigation rolls on with it. This Sunday Morning we were presented with an evolving posture from the white house. There was the scripture of a secret legal memo that the New York Times revealed, and then there was the sermon of how Rudy Giuliani framed it on the sunday shows. The document written by john dowd and jayekulow before giuliani joined the team asserts that the president could end the special counsel investigation, doesnt need to sit for an interview with robert mueller, could ignore a subpoena, and depending on how you interpret it, could potentially even pardon himself. But pressed to defend those claims, Rudy Giuliani was not exactly preaching fire and brim stone. Youre making a case that he Didnt Obstruct or are you making a case a president cannot
obstruct justice . Well, i dont like you know, im a lawyer. Im sort of a conservative lawyer in a legal sense and i dont like going into an argument you dont have to get to. You might want to say he has very broad powers. Do you and the president s attorneys believe the president has the power to pardon himself . Hes not, but he does. He has no intention of pardoning himself. He probably does. Doesnt say he cant. I mean thats another really interesting constitutional margin. Can the president pardon himself. Its not going to happen. Why put it in the memo . Is this a veiled threat to mull er . You push it do too far, we can end your probe. Youre not asking the guy who wrote the memo. Fair enough. Im not sure i would have written that, chuck. I think its a hollow, sort of a hollow promise. Almost impractical. The president of the United States pardoning himself would just be unthinkable. And it would, it would lead to probably immediate impeachment. But as with everything, what it really comes down to is what the president believe. Joining me onset,ngton anchor for bbc news katty kay, msnbc political analyst robert costa. Yamiche alcindor. The New York Times and msnbc contributor charlie savage. Andoining me from new york i ce for edelman and msnbc contributor Steve Schmidt and his debut on kasie d. C. Steve, its great to have you. Great to have all my panel here in d. C. As well. Charlie savage, i want to start with you on this because you were part of the team that unveiled what we have now been talking about all weekend which is this Behind The Scenes memo. Weve been picking apart kind of the details of this, but we were talking right before we went on the air about what you think the most important broad take away here is and that is the sweeping
constitutional challenges here. Thats right. So, this memo is a top to bottom set of, you know, legal claims, factual claims, arguments why he Didnt Obstruct justice, couldnt have obstructed jus and so forth. But the one thats really Breath Taking and that makes all the rest of them not matter if its true is this vision of a president who wields Absolute Unrevealable control over the Justice Department, over the machinery of the federal law enforcement, as a result he can shutdown or director close any investigation he wants and he can pardon anyone he wants, even if the evidence shows that his motivation for doing so was corrupt and selfserving. It doesnt matter congresss law of Obstruction Of Justice cant touch the president. The implications of that are so profound. It hearkens back to the nixonian, he cant do it because it would be illegal in our society. Right. Its not just a defense, you
know. Being used as a defense here, well, i didnt do this bad thing, you cant come after me for it. But if that is true, it is justification for offensive use of the Justice Department, too. As hes threatened to do, he can open an investigation start an investigation into an enemy. Irs audits or whatever. And thats the law cannot touch him. The law has nothing to say about that. Its impeachment or nothing and thats the system of American Government we live in according to the lawyers who are whispering in the ear of the president of the United States. Steve schmidt, i enjoyed your twitter thread last night on thistopic. Care to take us through what your view is of thi memo . Well, this is a very serious moment and, kasie, we have to look at this in a couple of different aspects. First, this is a president who lies constantly. Thousands of times on the year. In fact, the Liza Cumulating seem to suggest that objective truth is being challenged by
this president. That whats true is what the leader believes is true, or tells us is true despite what reality may or may not be. Secondly, we have a president who Routinelybout Locking up political opponents. Talks about locking up journalists. Talks about locking up anybody who disagrees with him. And lastly, this memo declares, i am the law, Above The Law, that the president , if he so chooses as charlie pointed out, can use the Justice Department to investigate political opponents, and that there is no boundary to the execution of the president s power. And we have to understand how an thi antithetical that is and how deeply unamerican it is. The greatness of George Washington was that he was the first person in thousands of years who could have been a king, could have been an emperor, and he said, no, i will be a president with limited
powers. And after a time of service, ill go home. He established a precedent that the institution is bigger than the man, that the system is bigger than the office, and that the constitutional democracy bequeathed to all of us by our founders and paid for with the blood of patriots for 200 plus years. Donald trump is asserting that hes no longer a president , but, in fact, a king whose powers are unlimited. That is the plain meaning of this legal memo. It is the singularly most disturbing thing ever articulated by an agent of a president of the United States with regard to president ial power, far exceeding any claims that Richard Nixon once made about the power of his office. Katty kay, whats your view on what steve is laying out right there . Its not exactly government by the people or government for the people, right . The concept thats laid out in
this message. You dont even have to go back as far as the war of independence to see the anomalies in what the Trump Legal Team is proposing here. There are plenty of republican senators who in the late 90s decided that actually a president could be charged with Obstruction Of Justice. Jeff sessions being one of them who also said that president clinton had said that he was not the subject of the civil legal system because he was president of the United States. And Jeff Sessions view was the Supreme Court did not agree with that as an argument. So, yes, this is an anomaly in the american system of especially an american exceptionalism rests on that idea of George Washington and the way the rest of the world sees this. Im not sure the monarch of Great Britain would put themselves as being the law and Above The Law in the way that the president is certainly the people of Britain Wouldnt Go along with that this day and age. Bob costa, lets explore a little bit trumps legal team. Its evolved. Rudy giuliani was not one of the authors of that memo, hes new to the team since. How are the dynamics playing out . He didnt want to take the memo to its logical conclusion. If you read between the lines, you look at it, could be interpreted to say the president could pardon himself in the event that there was a crime that mueller were to charge him with. Giuliani says, no, no, no, were never going to go there. That would be political suicide. Inside of the president s legal team, going back months whether it was john dowd or now mayor giuliani, you had this belief that the president could dance between the raindrops on the Russia Collusion aspect of this special federal investigation. At the same time, they have always been worried about the Obstruction Of Justice aspect of this investigation. So, when you go to this memo that charlie and his colleagues sharply reported today, you go back to how giuliani has been on tv talking through, its really about countering the idea of Obstruction Of Justice and how do they do that. They started time and again by talking about executive power rmt. As long as they underscore that the isnt in the clear. Its a different strategy than collusion. On the Collusion Side they a cert no collusion, no collusion, no collusion. In this instance they seem to be laying out a legal argument. The president s conduct is under scrutiny with the Obstruction Of Justice piece. When it comes to the trial of former Campaign Chairman of paul manafort, we didnt really know paul. He wasnt really involved for a long time or george papadopoulos, he was just a Coffee Fetcher on the campaign. They can move away from the individuals who were really under scrutiny under the russia interference part, but this is the report thats likely to come out this summer if the president does or does not sit for an interview with mueller is about his duct. Yamiche, one thing that stuck out to me in giulianis series of interviews, he kept saying it would be impossible, he would never go there. I want to play a little bit. We have sound of Chris Christie and dan abrams talking about this on abc and then ill ask you about it. He left open the possibility of the president pardoning himself even though he doesnt expect him to do it he would have the right to do it. Theres no way it would happen. It would become a political pardon. If the president were to pardon himself hell get impeached. I think it would be outrageous for a sitting of the president if the president decide he decided he was going to pardon himself thats selfexecuting impea impeachment. Whether there is an argument they can make, thats not what the framers intend. Thats what the American People would be able to stand for. The president s lawyer also saying it would be politically impossible for us for the president to pardon himself. It reminded me of, you know, this president when he was running for office said, you know, i could shoot people on 5th avenue, my supporters would still be with me. There does seem to be a calculation we havent been able to figure out where that line is. What can this president do that would cause people to turn against him . There seems to be a consensus that pardoning himself would, in fact, cross that line. Well, ill say two things. The first is this also reminds me of czSarah Sanders, is he gog to fire mull er . We wouldnt be in this kind of crisis. There is a line there they would draw now. There is a president who is trying to keep onto his political will and trying to get his supporters not completely abandon him. They are hedging on the idea pardoning myself would be pretty terrible. However, when i talk to people who say would this president go to jail or pardon himself, who among us, if you had the power just as a human being to keep yourself out of prison or to stay in office and hope that maybe after you get out of office you might actually be charged with a crime, who wouldnt pardon themselves . To me as a reporter it is in some ways common sense. Sources close to the president are true. They say this is not something the president would want to do. This is not something hes looking into. But i just think that if the president , i think, most people ive talked to think that he would pardon his son, his
soninlaw, that if he is backed up against the wall and has a case against him, why wouldnt he pardon himself . Katty kay, im not sure there is isnt a line this president wouldnt be willing to cross. Yeah, i mean, the point about his supporters, you know, abandoning him, the evidence is his supporters are growing when it comes to Public Opinion on the whole Russia Investigation and the number of people who feel this is politically motivated. Whether they are winning the legal case here, they are certainly winning the Public Opinion case. If this is going to be a political issue, American Voters increasingly believe there is an element of witch hunt about this. Over 50 now believe this is politically motivated and thats critical for the president. Its working for him. Thats a point that is so right. This white house looks as it as a public battle. Talking about as president clinton did. As president clinton did. Look what happened to the 1998
elections. The democrats thought the Republic Kands ov republicans overplayed their hands. He hasnt crossed the line yet by Firing Mueller or rosenstein. You talk to people who know the president , he still feels burned after firing director james comey. Interesting. Steve schmidt, whats your view on what the president might be willing to do here or not . To bobs point, he hasnt fired rosenstein. He hasnt fired bob mueller. Pardoning himself it seems like would be the next kind of iteration of that. But again, you know, i still i still feel like the whims of this president go back and forth so wildly, eye nim not convincs staff can keep him on track. His behavior will be increasingly erratic. I think hell burn everything down to save himself. I think that his desperation has become more clear as this investigation has moved closer
to the oval office. Fundamentally, this letter is deserving of a response from every elected official i this country who has taken an oath of fidelity to the constitution of the United States. The legal argument is an assault on the concepts of the American Republic and on the concepts of liberal democracy. It is that serious. And what we know for sure is there wont be a single republican member of congress who lays out an argument tomorrow morning that says, this is too far. This is a dangerous argument. This is an antiamerican argument. And his strategy is quite clear. Donald trump is using mass rallies where he lies throughout them to incite a base to a level of fervor where they suspend what is clearly true before their eyes, where they accept truth as what the leader says is true, and where they join together in a shared sense of
victimization. This is all out of autocrat 101. It is fundamentally illiberal. Whether its poland, hungary, the rise of nationalist parties in germany, in england, in france, the tactics are exactly the same. And it is disturbing to see it playing out in the United States of america in the Political Leadership of this country, whether they are republicans, democrats, liberals or conservatives. If you have fidelity to liberal democracy, it is important, i think, to speak out and reject the premise of this argument which is as far out there as anything weve ever seen in the countrys history with regard to the power of the president. The president of the presidency in our system is constrained. Its checked. There are three coequal branches of government. This is an assault on that concept and i think this president would do anything
anything to save himself or to save Family Members from this investigation which at every single stage has proven that whatever this administration has said is going on in fact has proven not to be the case. Im glad you raise that because re going to Start Talking about it that here in a couple of minutes. When we continue, another revelation from the memo, the president did work on that Statement Splarning his sons meeting with the russian lawyer in trump tower. Plus, the on again Off Again Summit with kim jongun is on for now, but is the president falling into the same pattern bill clinton did years ago . Later as the antiestablishment movement takes power in italy, one of the fathers of it here in the u. S. Says maybe now isnt the best time after all. Kasie d. C. Back right after this. Theyre all going in the same direction but in very different ways and pampers gives all of them our driest best fitting diaper. Pampers cruisers with threeway fit. They adapt at the waist, legs and bottom with up to twelve hours of protection for all the freedom to move way in pampers cruisers only pampers diapers are the number one choice of hospitals, nurses and parents. To give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont. Ill take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. New ensure max protein. In two great flavors. New ensure max protein. When this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. Yeah, my dad says our insurance doesnt have that. What . you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with youâ„¢. Liberty mutual insurance. One picky customer shouldnt take all your time. Need something printed . The Business Advisors at office depot can assist with exactly what your Business Needs to grow. Get your coupon for 20 off services, technology and more at office depot and officedepot. Com. Time that the president did, in fact, dictate a statement about that now Infamous Trump tower meeting between his eldest son and a russian lawyer. That original statement claimed the focus of the sitdown was russian adoption. Of course, emails later revealed that trump juniors real motivation for taking the meeting was to obtain damaging information about Hillary Clinton. You may also recall that after reports of the meeting first surfaced, the white house repeatedly denied that the president had any involvement in the drafting of that statement. The president was not did not draft the response. The response was came from donald trump, jr. , and im sure in consultation with his lawyer. I do want to be clear, the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement. The president didnt sign off on anything. He was coming back from the g20. The statement that was released on saturday was released by donald trump, jr. , im sure in consultation with his lawyers. The president wasnt involved in that. He certainly didnt dictate, but, you know, like i said, he
weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do. Just to be clear, all of those statements not true. This morning one of the president s closest allies in Congress HouseMajority Leader Kevin Mccarthy was asked about those repeated denials from the white house. Mr. Leader, are you bothered by the fact the white house lied about the president s involvement here . Look, one thing i have found, this has gone on for more than a year. Millions of dollars have been spent. The white house has been cooperating all the way through. This was all based upon was there collusion involved in the election. Everyone has looked at this says theres no collusion going forward. Mr. Leader, i understand those are the Talking Points. But this is a specific question. Are you concerned that the white house you heard the sound bites, you saw the statement from his own lawyers. They lied. Does that concern you . They can go on with the investigation. What i was concerned most about, like most americans, was there
any collusion. There was no collusion. So, briefly setting aside Kevin Mccarthy not engaging on that question at all, charlie savage, whats the reason for the legal team to do this, put this in this memo . They clearly feel they needed to sit the record straight in some way, otherwise it seems harmful. Right. Thats a Chris Christie marco rubio moment not being able to get off the Talking Point and think in real time. Right, so, the context in the memo was as you have received in testimony from other people. They knew it was up. People who had been in the airplane told mueller what really happened so they couldnt not acknowledge it in the missive to mueller. They had to explain it away some other way. The fact jay sekulow signed that letter means he has known he misled the public for at least since january. Maybe he didnt know it when he said those things last summer and he let the record go uncorrected. Thats on him now as a
credibility statement. Just to finish the thought, so their argument is look, its not a crime to lie to the New York Times. At the end of the day we lied to the New York Times. Sure, they are still talking to the American People, though. They are evading why bob mueller would care. He c because if this this is trumps personal actions. This isnt the people around him. And if trump is showing that he has the desire to cover up the truth about certain contacts between his campaign and russia in that interaction, that goes to whether maybe that was his intention when he did other things that mueller is looking at. It goes to whether he might have had a corrupt motive when he was pressuring comey over flynn, when he fired comey over other things as well. There is a legal reason for prosecutors to be very interested in that, even if its not a crime in and of itself to lie to the public or the times. When you think about why the president so far has declined to do an interview with bob mueller, its to charlies point, is that they dont want to have the president in a situation where he has to
explain or talk through his intent. Did he have corrupt or criminal intent . As Sarah Sanders said during her remarks, he was just a father weighing in on the process. Thats the white houses perspective on the exchange. But when youre sitting in front of a federal prosecutor and federal investigator, a perspective is not enough. You have to talk through your intent. Thats why you have Rudy Giuliani, the former new york mayor out there every day saying it would have to be so narrow about the questions because they see a risk if the president is in that kind of situation. If you remember, the white houses stance and the president s stance has been that don junior, donald trump, jr. , when he was going to that meeting to hopefully in his mind get information about Hillary Clinton from russian informants or russian officials, that hed never talked to his father about that. So you have his father now admitting i was involved in crafting a statement about a meeting that i supposedly never knew about and didnt really talk to anybody about. So there is this idea that is also crucial. Youre arguing you dont know anything about this while also covering it up. Steve schmidt, i want to talk to you about Kevin Mccarthy for a minute. Not only did he not call out the obvious lying that happened from the administration, but he also was pressed on the broad executive powers that are laid out in this memo that you have essentially said would be the powers of a king. And he potentially the next speaker of the house, potentially the leader of a coequal branch of government did not push back at all. It gives me no pleasure to say this. Ive known Kevin Mccarthy for a long time and i consider him a friend. But he disqualified himself for the speakership of the house. At the end of the day, if one of the parties wants to make a monkey, the ma Jordjority Leadem pretty indefinite rent to it. The speaker is a constitutional officer, third in line to the office of the president of the United States. What you saw was a partisan there. Somebody who would do anything, complete servility, above the
constitution, above the system of checks and balances, above the rule of law. Its disgraceful to watch it. Let me just say a couple of things. We saw jay sekulow there stone cold liar. Nothing that man ever says again on National Television should be taken seriously. Of course, we already know that about Sarah Sanders and of course the president. But with regard to the question of collusion, of course there was collusion. The collusion took place when the president s soninlaw, his son, and his Campaign Chairman met with representatives with close ties to the Russian Intelligence Services and to the kremlin for the purposes of Receiving Dirt on the democratic nominee for president of the United States. Thats not an attack on Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party. That is an attack on the United States of america, our sovereignty, and our elections process. This is what George Washington warned the country about in his farewell address, was foreign interference. And there was only one appropriate response. When these people were contacted by a hostile foreign power to give dirt to the to their campaign about the democratic nominee, and that was to call the director of the fbi, period, full stop. And to see Kevin Mccarthy up there being complicit in the lying, im troubled about it. Stuttering around on this Collusion Issue is shameful. It is shameful. Katty kay . Mccarthy is looking at tray gowdy and thinking, when you do speak out and you say anything that is critical of the president s position, the president s lawyers position on the fbi investigation, what do you get within the Republican Party and potentially within voters . Resounding silence. Or attacks. And you go back to your district
and you hear that actually people are much more in line with what Kevin Mccarthy is saying than what tray gowdy is saying. Kevin mccarthy has his own personal reasons. Hes one of the members of congress closest to trump. Charlie savage, thank you for your thoughts tonight. Appreciate it. When wecontinue, Governor Terry mcauliffe is standing by. He joins me live onset up next. Before nexium 24hr mark could only imagine. A peaceful night sleep without frequent heartburn waking him up. Now that dream is a reality. Nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for allday, allnight protection. Can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn . Janice, mom told me you bought a house. Okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ Camera Shutter Clicks ] so, now that you have a house, you can use homequote explorer. Quiet. Im blasting my quads. Janice, look. Im in a meeting. Janice, look. [ chuckles ] look, look. Im looking. Its easy. You just answer some simple questions online, and you get Coverage Options to choose from. Youre ruining my workout. Cycling is my passion. Youre ruining my workout. Californians are leading against donald trump. Our senator should, too. Kevin de leon is the only candidate for senate who passed laws protecting immigrants from trump. And helped dreamers stay in school. He led bold action against climate change. And only de leon fought for universal, medicare for all. Democrat Kevin De Leon the only true progressive for senate. Change california now is responsible for the content of this advertising. Welcome back to kasie d. C. Joining me now onset for a kasie d. C. Exclusive is former democratic governor of virginia terry mcauliffe. Governor, great to see you again onset. Great to be here. I want to talk about the Russia Investigation. Theres been increasing criticism and frustration among some democrats i talk to that the Democratic Party as a whole is not handling the push back to this investigation correctly. Obviously there was a conversation about impeachment and democratic leadership and you on this show have come out and said look, we cant have that conversation until after muellers report comes out. However, there are some who argue that you arent necessarily effectively pushing a message that could resonate with voters about collusion. Youre not raising questions
about the strategy that giuliani is displaying where he is swaying Public Opinion, Casting Doubts about the vision. Should democrats be doing more to try to insist to defend muellers credibility . I think first of all, the news about collusion is out every day. Now we have this 20page plus memo thats now come out where the president either his lawyer lied or he told his lawyer to lie or it just doesnt make sense so he should fire his lawyer. He said that he didnt have anything to do with it. This memo says he was involved in the drafting of the memo so there was no question there was collusion. I mean, there was a meeting in trump tower with the president s son with campaign advisors, with russians saying were going to give you dirt on hillary. I dont know how else you would define collusion. The issue is what did the president know. Thats what theyre trying to find out today. He says he had nothing to do with the meeting, didnt know anything about it. Now were finding out new details today. But thats how Every Single Day, i think what the democratic message, what weve got to lean in on, why ve for a democrat. Look what we did in virginia. Record number of jobs created. Took unemployment from 5. 4 down to 3. 6. Billions dollars of new investment, largest investment in k12 in virginia history. Voters want to know what were actually going to do forthem look what happened this week in virginia. We got Medicaid Expansion done. I was going to ask you about that. One rinne reason, only reason, we picked up 15 house delegate seats in november of 2017. That was the largest pickup since 1880. And thank goodness we picked it up and now 400,000 people are going to get health care. Ralph northam, governor northam, my Lieutenant Governor is going to sign that bill. Elections matter. That is a concrete policy victory in the wake of the beginning of what could be a blue wave. Wouldnt have happened, would not have happened had we not picked up 11 of the 15 were women. Women are driving this election. We started in november 17. Records pilkd cked up. Thats going to translate. What are we going to do . We have an infrastructure bill. We have to deal with health care. Cassie, umenyiora seen premiums go up in state after state n. Virginia theyre going up as high as 64 increase. These are iguodabig issues. We have teachers walking out rightfully so because theyre not being paid enough. The democratic message is what are we going to do for you. Thats what voters want from us. In virginia, why did we win . We had four great years of economic prosperity. Everybody was happy. We had a great message and we gave people results. Do you think that can eaktgh . Tom who has been a progressive favorite in your state has written lately saying local media is not as prominent as it used to be. People are getting their news nationally. There is not enough there is not coverage of your democratic messaging on health care, on all these other issues. Its all trump all the time. Do you not need to be pushing back with a stronger trumprelated message . I think the antitrump message is out there. The president helps us Every Single Day with that message. But look, all i can tell you is look what we did in Virginia In November Of 17. We swept the statewide offices. That was about turnout on our positive message, building upon the great record we had four years in virginia. Everybody was happy. We had results. Jobs, economic development, 10 billion we put into transportation, reformed our education system. Our argument has to be what are we going to do for them. We win on our progressive message of what we stand for, economic empowerment, protecting peoples rights. You know, when i ran for governor five years ago, republicans controlled all three statewides. Only 33 democrats out of 100 in our house of delegates. When i left office, all Democrats Statewides and we had 49 out of 100. Huge pickup. Why . A positive message. The trump stuff out there, tell what were going to do. I want to switch gears. Bill clinton responded to senator kiersten gillibrand. She said he should have stepped down after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The tolerance we had 25 years ago, what was allowed 25 years ago will not be tolerated today, is not allowed today, and that we have to have the kind of o r oversight and accountability Society Needs so we can protect people in the workplace, so people can function without having an unsafe work environment. So youre saying if bill clinton were president today and those incidents were unfolding today it would be a very different conversation, exactly. Well, i disagree with her. I think, you know, you have to really ignore what the context was. But, you know, shes living in a different context and she did it for different reasons, so i but i just disagree with her. He said that the contexts were different. But given what we know now and the way this movement has unfolded, should bill clinton have resigned over the monica
lewinsky scandal . This was 25 years ago, it was difficu different standards. I think people looked at it in totality, 26 million he made a horrible why were they different standards . Im saying at the time we dealt with this 25 years ago, it Wasnt The Standards we have today. I think if it happened today, i think youd be having the same argument that would go on with the me too movement. But 25 years ago, as i say, it was a different standard. Do you think the clintons victimized Monica Lewinsky in that, do you think the way they dealt with her would be tolerable today . No, i dont. I think it was a horrible thing 25 years ago. As you know, were very good friends. I told the president back then it was a horrible thing. I wrote about it in my book. He paid a horrible price, he paid a horrible personal price, he paid a horrible political price. People looked at the totality the things he accomplished when he was in office, people made a decision back then they had gone too far. As you know, we picked up a
senate seat in 1998 because they felt the republicans had way overstepped their bounds with ken starr and all the Different Things that had gone on, too. Clearly the behavior was horrible and wrong and i told the it was wrong. Do you think the president s are at risk of overstepping with President Trump in a similar way were there to be a politically motivated i7 motivated impeachment of this president . I dont want to see a political impeachment. Ive said to you and others, democrats shouldnt spend time talking about impeachment. They should talk about what theyre going to do for you. Mueller is doing the investigation. Let him come out with the report. Then people make decisions. I dont think we ought to be second guessing. I dont think we ought to hypothesize about what is going to happen. Let the Mueller Report come out. I go back to the point democrats win on an agenda. People are with us on the issues, treating people with dignity and respect. As you know, cassie, when i was governor i vetoed 120 horrible bills. Antiwomen, antilgbt. Pro gun antivoting rights. Most vee totoes of any governor virginia history. Record job growth, record investment education. They want results from us. As i say, everything with trump is out there, but let mueller do his investigation and we can go from there. I ask you this every time i have thank you r you, but really quickly, are you running for president in 2020 . I hope no democrat will answer that question because i am working my heart out. I just was in louisiana and texas and michigan last couple weeks talking about how we take a red state like virginia and we convert it into a blue state. Why . All the things i have just talked to you about. We have a lot of time. I think our party, cassie, for too long has made a big mistake. They spend too much time on the presidency and we forget about state and local. We have 36 governors up this year. Those 36 governors will be in the chairs in 2021 when the new census and they redraw every line in america. We traditionally have not been in the game on t. Im work ing with eric holder now making sure
we have fair maps. Thats what people want. People at home, they want results. They want people to do things. They want their life to be better. We can help them do t. Sitting around talking to me talking about trump as governor would not help one virginiian. Traveling the five continents and 35 trade missions, doing 91 billion in trade you have it down. Even if youre not willing to say it yet. Lets wait in 18. Thank you for being here. Always appreciate it. Still to come, the State Of Play with korea. Kasie d. C. Back after this. [music playing] vo from day one, we always came through for our customers. Its how we earned your trust. Until. We lost it. Today, were renewing our commitment to you. Fixing what went wrong. And ending Product Sales goals for branch bankers. So we can focus on your satisfaction. Its a new day at wells fargo. But its a lot like our first day. Wells fargo. Established 1852. Reestablished 2018. burke seen it. Covered it. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are faers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum you wouldnt accept from any one else. Why accept it from your Allergy Pills . Including nasal congestion, your worst symptoms which most pills dont. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. Most pills only block one. Flonase. Now im gonna tell my momma im Gonna Follow The Sun now im gonna tell my momma that im a traveller transitionsâ„¢ light under controlâ„¢
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negotiations has created an emotional Roller Coaster will they, or wont they perhaps summed up by this dramatic reenactment. Game on. Game on game on. He shoots, he scores one for one. Nice going. Game on. Game on score. Game on. Game on. Hi, wayne. Hi. Oops. And shes okay. Game on yeah, game on so, the game is on for now. Katty kay . After the car crash. Hopefully everyone will come out alive. Where do they stand here . And how nervously are our American Allies watching this kind of back and forth between trump and kim jongun . Certainly if youre in south korea youre watching it nervously because the prospect that it could be back off again and tensions could ratchet up again worries them a lot. Already what were seeing is that the North Koreans have quite a lot out of this. Theyre getting a photo opportunity. Theyve got divisions within the alliance of south korea, china, and america when it comes to maximum pressure. Thats eased tensions in north korea substantially. And theyre starting to see an uptick in aid and sanction busting financial flows into the country as well. So, its hard to see that the president hasnt given away a lot in terms of the summit without getting very much up front in return and thats exactly what bill clinton was, you know, the reason bill clinton didnt have a summit with the North Koreans back at the end of the 1990s because he
wanted the denuclearization to come first. Trump has flipped that model. Well see if he gets the end goal afterwards. Even the picture of trump smiling with kim yong ol is some some ways wait until its kim jongun. Right. Bob costa, do you read anything into bolton not attending the planned summit . Theres been some Behind The Scenes friction there. A lot of the wanes world reference. Bohemian rhapsody when theyre singing it in the car the greatest scene from the movie. But when you think about the National Security advisor, hes not in the meeting, the vicepresident is not in the meeting, based on conversations with white house officials this weekend, they say those officials were playing the bad cop role in the negotiations, taking a harder line, Secretary Of State pompeo, the president took a different tact in the negotiations. This is an historic moment that may not lead on june 12th to denuclearization or any kind of firm commitment. But if it ends the korean war, if it establishes diplomatic ties, theyre trying to begin
the sale now to say to the American People and u. S. Allie that thats enough, thats the start of a process. So, yamiche, you cover the white house every day. Do they see this as are they at the point they feel like this will be america can come out of this having won something significant, even if they dont get to total denuclearization . I think that the president himself feels like i dont know if america would have wanted something. I think the president feels a as though if he sits down, he can say ive gone farther is it more about him than the country at large . The people ive talked to think the president thinks its in the countrys best interest to sit down with kim jongun. I think that the president also wants to be seen as a president who did more than other president s and as a result when you have these pictures, some people might say, okay, north korea is getting to be able to have this image with an american president , but President Trump is also going to be able to taking a victory lap saying, look at all the things i did. And, by the way, that letter he said, hey, im going to layout im going to cancel
this, hes telling north korea i dont really need this. I think the perception brought from people after reading the letter was President Trump was ready to give this all up because he didnt it wasnt that important to him. Now that its back on he can make the now that itsack on, he can say i didnt really need it, they came crawling to me, and look at all the things ive gotten. I think its very clear that they dont have an understanding of what denuclearization will mean to north korea long term. Most people like the idea that were talking rather than promising fire and fury. If youre really going to lift the maximum pressure that has taken an awful lot of time and effort and coordination to get us into a position where theres max numb maximum pressure, are you giving a lot away to have them sit down. Just ahead, were going to talk about changes and fractures in the party. More on kasie d. C. In just a
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to inspire and motivate and keep the intensity in the democratic base, and i think as a result you see narrowing. As a strategic proposition, you can defeat an opponent by conquering them, think the allies against germany or you can defeat an opponent by breaking their will to resist and fight. Think the United States in the vietnam war. So the degree to which trump exhausts his opponents, he wears them out, that people become demoralized, that theyont see a response in fighting fashion from democratic leadership, i think in part, that shows responsible for some of the narrowing that were seeing. Were seeing a decrease in enthusiasm. A point that i think a lot of democrats are increasingly making to me privately. Thanks so much. Hope to see you back soon. When we continue, we will talk exclusively to the mayor of san juan as Hurricane Season approaches and a new report reveals that in reality,
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