To homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. That your business is our business the United States postal service. Priority you 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, trump putin, the sequel, the leadrs meet in helsinki. Things get tricky ahead of the summit. Later republican congressman Ryan Costello joins me live. He says his colleagues conclusions on the russia investigation should be taken with a grain of salt. But just hours from now, President Trump and President Putin are set to meet. Things were always going to be a little awkward to begin with. And then came the indictments of a dozen russians laid out in forensic detail. It leaves a lot of questions, like whether holding those accountable will come up in their conversation. The russians who were indicted, would you ask putin to send them here . Well, i might. I hadnt thought of that, but certainly ill be asking about it. Again, this was during the Obama Administration. Presented with all of this new information, there is also the question of how hard the president will press Vladimir Putin on his governments role. I know youll ask will we be talking about meddling, and i will absolutely bring that up. I dont think youll have any, gee, i did it, i did it, you got me. There wont be a perry mason here, i dont think, but you never know what happens, right . Jonathan swan of axios citing sources close to trump if and
when trump confronts putin tomorrow, it wont be with genuine seriousness or enthusiasm. The president no longer doubts the intelligence assessment. Quote, he just cant get past a Senior Administration official told us, his voice trailing off, quote, that its about his election. All of this while the president casually recasts who is a friend and who is a foe. Who is your biggest competitor, your biggest foe globally right now . Well, i think we have a lot of foes. I think the European Union is a foe. What they do to us in trade. Now, you wouldnt think of the European Union, but theyre a foe. Russias a foe in certain respects. China is a foe economically certainly theyre a foe. But that doesnt mean theyre bad. It doesnt mean anything. It means that theyre competitors. They want to do well and we want to do well. I want to welcome in my panel. Former Chief Of Staff at cia and Department Of Defense and Msnbc National Security analyst jeremy
bash. Politics reporter for the daily beast and msnbc contributor betsy woodruff. The man who puts memo, nbc News National reporter mike. Joining us from london, London School of economics brian class. And from helsinki finland, chief correspondent affairs, host Andrea Mitchell reports nbc, Andrea Mitchell. Its such an honor to have you here. Thank you for staying up with us. Thank you. Absolutely. I have watched so many of these meetings, dozens of types of meetings with foreign leaders over the years. This seems like everything this president does, stunning in a way that is extraordinarily difficult to kind of understand and explain. Whats your latest reporting going into this summit . And can you put it in some Historical Context . What do you think is important here and different than what youve seen before . Sure. I think this is unique because weve never had a summit with a
kgb spy master, someone who has, you know, completely studied and examined donald trump, and a president who spent the weekend golfing and has not been preparing. There were no principal meetings, no planning for the summit, no deeply organized strategy sessions, what is the agenda, what are the goals, what do they want to get out of it. So, we could be surprised, they could come out and say weve made progress on nuclear weapons, that were going to revive, expand, extend, Start Nuclear weapons agreement which expires after 2022. But will donald trump confront putin on the fact hes already busted out of one mediumrange, the Inf Treaty By deploying a banned missile . Unlikely. He doesnt know those kind of details. He hasnt been with his advisors. Weve seen him all over the lot as He Crisscrosses Europe the last week. And its really startling that hes going to be meeting one on one. Were not going to have a record of this one on one meeting. And that is alarming to a lot of former advisors in both Political Parties who have worked so closely to plan a summit like this. This is even less planned and more impromptu than singapore was, and thats saying a lot. Andrea, i mean, this is somebody Vladimir Putin has a history of being, as you point out, the former kgb official who does things to either flatter and try to embrace his host in a way that puts them off guard as he did with george w. Bush, or tries to unsettle them as he did with Angela Merkel at times. Do we have any indication that thats kind of where Vladimir Putin might be going with this . And the last time that they did talk, there seems to be some agreement on how to handle issues in syria that then quite frankly putin walked away from. It seems like the Policy Stakes could be very high. Well, there are a lot of issues there, especially with syria, because the administration is planning really ramping up its very
aggressive posture on both sanctions and other activities against iran. They are keen to some Big Decisions on iran coming and they have already, as we reported over the weekend, told the top three european allies who were very concerned about the iran nuclear deal, about our withdrawal from the nuclear deal, there would be no waivers, no exceptions their companies are going to have to get out of tehran or risk not doing business with the United States, which is not a choice for them. They have to be able to tradein dollars, deal with american banks. So, they have to get out of iran. This is going to squeeze iran. There are other steps that are being taken on the energy front to compensate for what may be what will be a drop in Iranian Oil Exports if these other major european companies, france, britain and germany have to pull out. So theres a lot there. And this conversation about syria where Vladimir Putin has been working with iran gets
really complicated on the ground. Is this a way of the u. S. Backing out of syria, abandoning rebels, saying were doing it because of iran, and somehow working with putin but not to undercut assad, to continue propping up his client, Bashar Alassad . So, theres that. But primarily on the mueller front, every signal from everything the president has said in the last days, months, particularly since the indictment, is to blame the victim, blame the democrats for not defending themselves better, blame obama for saying it happened on his watch out of context and give putin and the kremlin a free ride. Jeremy bash, to andreas point on that, how do you think these two things interact, what you learned in the Mueller Investigation . Obviously the president knew that this was going to happen going into it. Hes Going Forward anyway. First on the summit, were going to see unfold here in the next ten hours, this is the most
significant shift in the American Foreign policy in the post world war ii era. I dont think we should under play that. First on the economic front, kasie, we are reordering our trade relationships around the world, preferring more unilateral, in some cases bilateral cases. Ending the regime. More politically, undermining the nato alliance, undermining our historical alliances including with the u. K. And really embracing russia. This is a fundamental shift. So then West Virginia e of course, the indictments that show definitively russian government officials comprehensively not just meddled in the election, but actually launched a very sophisticated cyberattack against the United States. And yes, it did occur during the Obama Administration. The Trump Campaign happened during the Obama Administration. But it is very clear, and i think you see this from the president s own words leading up to the summit, he doesnt take this seriously. He doesnt accept the intelligence and he will not in any way confront putin about t. When you learned this forgive me for putting you on
the spot. Should the Obama Administration done more . They want it had to go public. They stepped back because Mitch Mcconnell wouldnt go along. The president Thought Hillary is going to win, this isnt going to matter. Lets not get involved lest she win and we be accused in the election. The United States should have done a lot more. There is tonight this from the New York Times saying, quote, the same Russian Military Intelligence Service now accused of disrupting the 2016 president ial election in america may also be responsible for the Nerve Agent Attack in britain against a former russian spy an audacious poisoning that led to a geopolitical confrontation this spring between moscow and the west. Quote, british investigators believe the march 4 attack on the former spy, Sergey Skripalal and his daughter yulia was most probably carried out by current or former agents of the service known as the g. R. U. Who were sent to his home in southern england, according to one
british official, one a american official and one former american official familiar with the inquiry, all speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence. Nbc news has not verified the times reporting as this is all coming to us. Betsy woodruff, pretty remarkable considering the president is leaving the u. K. , having been there. This is a very physical manifestation of a, frankly, sweeping intelligence power that is systematically trying to undermine democracies across the globe. Thats right. And the important context for this is none of this stuff happens without Vladimir Putin knowing about it. Putin is critically close with the Intelligence Services, hes deeply involved with all these matters. It is unthinkable there would have been an operation like the one alleged to have happened against the skripals without putin knowing about it. Unlikely the 2016 Election Meddling happened without putin knowing about it. What has the trump
administration tried to put putin on the spot . I dont think anyone is waiting with baited breath to see that happen. It puts it more to the forefront and more urjts. What is the view from london look like . This is a story you guys have been covering pretty closely. Is there surprise . And what is kind of the orientation and the feeling are you exhausted having experienced a little of what we here in the u. S. Experience every day having the president visit the u. K. . Well, it was a remarksable visit. Donald trump is politically toxic in the u. K. He has an 11 Approval Rating. That was the Bombshell Sun interview where he effectively tried to push theresa mays government off the cliff where she is already close to the edge. I think there was astonishment, bewhich wi bewhich wi b bewilderment. Trump trashed nato, trashed the e. U. And trashed britain. Those are all three things
Vladimir Putin very much wants to happen. For the last two decades hes been looking to drive a wedge into the core of the west, and donald trump has done this for him. Something the soviet union couldnt accomplish, something putin couldnt accomplish. Now trump is accomplishing it for him heading into helsinki. The British Government is looking at this with trepidation and waiting to see what will come out of it and not too optimistic. On the eve of the president s meeting with Vladimir Putin, members of the Trump Administration and the president himself have sought to downplay expectations. It is a summit, ive heard it called a summit. It is a meeting. The russians have agreed it would be unstructured. We are not looking for concrete deliverables here. No state dinner, no joint statement. No deliverables that are going to be prepackaged. You dont know whats going to come out of this meeting. I dont expect anything. Im going in with very low expectations. I think that getting along with russia is a good thing. But its possible we wont. You heard ambassador jon huntsman therein sifting tomorrows meeting is not a, quote, summit but that didnt stop the president from sending out the tweets hours later no matter how well he does at the summit, the media wont give him any credit. Andrea mitchell, what are your expectations inside this frame for this meeting . Well, i think that they will come out and try to make some announcements perhaps on arms control. But we are all inevitably going to be focused on the indictments, on how he addresses it. Its a joint news conference. There will be two questions on either side. He can try to call on friendlier reporters. Im really struck by the fact that going into this he again used the phrase on twitter, the press are enemies of the people. That is a stalinist phrase. And it goes against everything that the State Department under both republicans and democrats have done for decades to project americas belief in a free press, americas belief in the
first amendment as american secretaries of state and president s go to moscow or beijing or now erdogans turkey. To any of these totalitarian regimes, they go in, hold press conferences, the new secretary of the state pompeo did, Rex Tillerson did not as a regular matter. Emphasizing the importance of a free press. For him to use that phrase right out of Josef Stalins book on the eve of a summit with Vladimir Putin is so deeply offensive to american values. Its quite remarkable. And, mike, to andreas point, this is going to be something of of a stunning display. Usually there has been this rule that you dont criticize the american president when he goes abroad, but also american president s have a history of defending their own free press. You i know have covered carefully the russia investigation and have read through these indictments. What did you see in there that you think we should be paying attention to tomorrow . Kasie, im going to send you
back to your 2012 romney rambler days because there was a moment that republicans are fond of bringing up in 2012 when of course obama on the hot mic was heard talking with president medvedev at the time, ill have more flexibility after the election. Romney pounced on that. This isness a moment for the american president to be holding his punches with the russian president. I think what were seeing is exactly that. Its remarkable hes dispassionately speaking about the summit. There is not much hes expecting down playing his expectations. You know who is ready . He may have been basquing in the spotlight. Thats Vladimir Putin. And this indictment from the mueller team on friday really carefully lays out their capabilities. And there is the need for the american president to respond to that forcefully to say this is unacceptable. What we heard from the President Today Doesnt Sound like hes ready to deliver that message. It does seem like a remarkable signal. The detail, jeremy bash, that was in the indictment, it seems to almost as though they
intended to tell Vladimir Putin, hey, look, this is how much we know about what youve been doing. It showed the depth of intelligence collection about russian cyberattacks against the United States. But, look, the administration here is describing that as the seinfeld summit, the summit about nothing. And i think the reason i like that. The reason it is happening is because they have no idea. Jon huntsman, the ambassador, john bolton the advisor, have no idea why we are having this summit. Trump hasnt told them. Its a secret one on one meeting. This is not a summit with deliverables. There may be vague statements, i take andreas points. It will be totally a more fuss, unenforceable. All we no is trump is going to walk out, declare victory, some important objective has been achieved, but we will never know. In fact, the administration itself has no idea what it wants to get out of this. Betsy woodruff, is that essentially all this is, another media show . Weve seen the reports in the wake of singapore, for example, that President Trump said, oh, hey, looking there were more cameras here than at the oscars,
for example. Is that all there thats here . I have no doubt that is the central idea for the coverage. It is as significant as what happens in that conversation. I think that is part of the reason the mueller indictment is such an important preface to this event. It is very much by design those were laid out at the granular level how much we know about russian hacking. Counter espionage investigation is one of the most important deterrent steps investigators can take. Its called attribution. Its when you show heres how we figured out what happened. This is what we know. Thats designed in an ideal world to deter future attacks, future hacks, future meddling. So on the one hand you have mueller and his team taking a Shot Across The Bow at the russians saying we can name names. Weve got individuals. We can zero in on who the alleged bad guys are. And at the same time you have trump gearing up for this summit about nothing, acting like its not important all and the contrast couldnt be shafrper. We are just Getting Started here. Peter strzok reminds us why its a bad idea to text, never text ever. Why its difficult for allies to decipher which President Trump to believe. Kasie d. C. Back after this. Insurance that wont replace the full value of your new car . Youd be better off throwing your money right into the harbor. Im gonna regret that. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement, well replace the full value of your car. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. My mom washes the dishes. Before she puts them in the dishwasher. So what does the dishwasher do . New Cascade Platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuckon foods, the first time. Wow, thats clean new Cascade Platinum. The wonderful thing about polident is the fact that its very, very tough on bacteria, yet its very gentle on the denture itself. Polidents 4 in 1 Cleaning System consists of 4 powerful ingredients that Work Together to deep clean your denture in hard to reach places. It kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria and it helps to remove stains. Polident should be the first choice of every person that wears a denture, to clean their denture. Of every person that wears a denture, Legendary Jockey Victor Espinoza loves winning just as much. As his horse loves snacking. Thats why he uses the chase mobile® app, to pay practically anyone, at any bank. But its tough to gete enough of their nutrients. New one a day with natures medley is the only complete multivitamin with antioxidants from one total serving of fruits and veggies try new one a day with natures medley. After a scratch so small rocket you could fix it with a pen. How about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead . For drivers with accident forgiveness, Liberty Mutual wont raise their rates because of their first accident. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Where were making The Next Generation of multiscreen welcadvertising possible. Ght, we have the broad and targeted reach you need to access the customers youre looking for on tv and digital platforms. Then we connect you to our team of media experts, who are ready to help you maximize your budget while elevating your advertising effectiveness. Sounds like an Advertising Opportunity knocking. Visit comcastspotlight. Com today. And allegedly killing journalists, today he put out this tweet. Writing in part, quote, much of our news media is indeed the enemy of the people. Heres what happened when the two met just over a year ago. President trump reached out twice to shake President Putins hand, then as reporters started to leave, putin, leaning over to whisper something. A joke jabbing the journalists, asking if theyre the ones who insulted President Trump. The largest newspaper in finland put up 300 billboards along the route from the airport to the summit aimed at both leaders reading, quote, mr. President , welcome to the land of the free press. Time and again on foreign soil, flanked by world leaders, the president has lashed out at the u. S. Press. Take questions from cnn is fake news. I dont take questions from cnn. John roberts of fox, lets go to
a real reporter. You can pick a reporter. Baltic reporter. Real news, not fake news. Should i take one of the Killer Networks that treat me so badly, fake news . Who are you without of curiosity . Cnn. I figured, fake news, cnn, the worst. It wasnt until i became a politician that i realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be. They have been fake news for a long time. Theyve been covering me in a very, very dishonest way. Do you have that also, by the way, mr. President . I want to make sure were looking at this in the Broad Strokes with the idea of Press Freedom Being One of the key indicators of democratic freedoms and how much any given country embraces the freedom of the people that it governs. And, Andrea Mitchell, you had mentioned this earlier. I have to say, previous white
houses of both Political Parties had track words of defending journalists who were traveling with them in foreign countries. There was an incident i remember with the Chinese Government in particular where the u. S. Administration pushed back and insisted on access. Is this something that is doing longterm irreparable damage to the perception of america as a leader on this . I think it is. And in particulate a time when you have hardline populist movements, farright movements also being supported in one instance by an American Ambassador in germany, very offensive to Angela Merkel and to a lot of people in the State Department, Foreign Service officers, not at all criticized, of course, by this State Department. Back in the day i remember being in sudan in kartum with
condaleeza rice make sure we got in for a photo opportunity. When i was dragged out she demanded an opportunity before she would continue the trip with the Foreign Ministry when the leader let this happen in his version of the oval office. So, they have all been fierce defenders of a free press. Farright, center, doesnt matter who. Thats why this is so bizarre, frankly. Incredibly sharp contrast. As you pointed out earlier, stalinist rhetoric. Lets go back to frankly what happened earlier this week, which has perhaps been lost in the news the last 48 hours. Throughout his visits to brussels and the United Kingdom last week, the president repeatedly said things he would either go on to completely whack back or at least soften. Here he is talking about germany. Germany is totally controlled by russia. Germany as far as im concerned is captive to russia because its getting so much of its energy from russia. So were supposed to protect
germany, but theyre getting their energy from russia. Explain that. We have a very, very Good Relationship with the chancellor. We have a tremendous relationship with germany. We have had tremendous success and i congratulate you, tremendous success. And heres what he had to say about nato. In many countries tremendous amount of money for many years back where theyre delinquent as far as im concerned because the United States has had to pay for them. The spirit they have, the amount of money theyre willing to spend, the additional money that they will be putting up has been really, really amazing. And here he is talking about british Prime Minister theresa may, brexit and a possible u. S. U. K. Trade deal. I would have done it much differently. I actually told theresa may how to do it, but she didnt agree she didnt listen to me. What did she say . She didnt listen. No, i told her how to do it. That will be up to her to say. But i told her how to do it. She wanted to go a different route. So you would be prepared to walk away if they didnt give you the right terms . Oh, absolutely. I think whats going on is very unfortunate. I didnt criticize the Prime Minister. I have a lot of respect for the Prime Minister. Its called fake news. We want to trade with the u. K. And the u. K. Wants to trade with us. Brian, which version of the u. S. President do european leaders think is telling the truth . The one where he insults them. And the problem is that these alliances take decades to build. They literally take decades to build the trust and they can be destroyed much more quickly. And donald trump is acting like a Wrecking Ball coming into these alliances and then standing over the rubble and saying, i didnt mean it, and getting back on air force one. And the problem is that the reverberations from these attacks are still rippling through u. K. Politics. Theresa may had to give an interview today trying to clean up some of trumps comments. And she said that what trump told her to do was to sue the European Union, which is a nonsensical thing that just betrays how little he knows about International Affairs and bre brexit. And so its a punch line already. The damage has been done. Its exacerbating internal did he Virgin Islands in german i u. K. Hes trying to save face. It doesnt go away. Thats why relations are at the worst point theyve been, certainly the iraq war if not the end of the cold war in the early 90s. Andrea mitchell, we have talked so many times on so many issues with this president about whether there is a change to a norm or a rule or a law or, you name it, some piece of our system that will be irreparable on the other side. And for the most part, people have at least many members of
congress who i talked to every day argue, hey, our system is resilient. This, too, shall pass. We will get through this. In your view, what would you say is the scope of the damage that was done to the American European alliances over the course of the last week . And is it reparable . I think it is reparable, but as brian said, its now really becoming part of the unpredictability is becoming part of their expectations about u. S. Policy. So we are no longer involved in Climate Change talks. We are no longer involved in population and Womens Health issues. We have left all sorts of u. N. Panels. Now, they need reforms, perhaps, but reforming from inside is always a lot more effective than being on the outside looking in. The tpp is perhaps the most profound thing where we got out. Therefore, all of the changes
that had been won by american negotiators are waived and tpp goes forward and china is the big winner because our asian friends and allies and economic competitors are all dealing with each other and with china, and not with the United States. There is a lot china has done, you know, badly in terms of Intellectual Property and other egregious trade practices, but were not in the game in the way were negotiating. And nafta is perhaps the best example where, aside from the other european and china tariffs that hes imposed, nafta, we walked away from a really improved deal with both mexico and canada, and now i dont know where that goes. But i dont think theyre going to be able to negotiate Bilateral Agreements that are at all advantageous as nafta was to many sectors of the american economy. Andrea mitchell, thank you so much for staying up till 2 30 in the morning. I hope you can get a little bit of rest ahead of your busy day
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favors in terms of the public, i dont know thats the case. They tried not to defend peter strzok because his conduct is not defensible. But to call attention to what is a show trial and an attempt to undermine the Mueller Probe. They did defend him at times when it was personal. The purple heart. Betsy, what was your take . There was one important new moment in the hearing that kind of got buried in the ninehour marathon, and that is strzok, my understanding, is the first fbi official to say on the record in his official capacity that the steele dossier, which republicans have made a central part of their attack on the Mueller Investigation, confidential much substantiated dossier, what he said was the steele dossier was not a predicate for the opening of the Mueller Probe. The house intelligence committees report that came out said George Papadopoulos was the reason they opened the probe. But even the Hpse Investigation Run by devin nunes close ally of the white house, even they
didnt go so far as ruling out any role the dossier had in opening this investigation. So for strzok to say that, its actually a new piece of information that if anything is good for mueller to be out there. The important thing is strzok hasnt been involved in the investigation for more than a year. So you cant indict or attack the Mueller Investigation as it stands today by talking about someone who was involved a year before. And now after friday we have a grand total of 32 indictments, five criminal convictions, people sitting in prison at this hour or facing significant prison time for their relationships with the russian federation. I think the Mueller Investigation is professional. Its nonpartisan. Its out of the press limelight and i think it is proceeding very well. Mike, whats the next piece of this . I mean, the committee spoke to lisa page Behind Closed Doors. We may learn new information from her testimony . They are going to continue talking to her tomorrow. It was a friday, get away friday as you know on the hill. Only so many people wanted to
stay around and talk with her. Theyre going to continue the conversation tomorrow. What some republicans coming out of the interview with her on friday were saying they were very critical earlier of her this week because there was back and forth whether she would appear. She was credible, Mark Meadows One of the strongest critics of her and strzok was saying. Well find out what they said she was willing to answer questions peter strzok was not able to. In terms of the larger investigation, devin nunes is, even though his own Committee Put out a report saying the origins were this papadopoulos moment, hes been referring witness after witness to the judiciary and the oversight committees because hes not convinced. He thinks there was a deep state plot within the State Department, within members of the Obama Campaign to get this investigation before the fbi to undermine the Trump Campaign. One of the points that strzok made we had talked through this on the set at different points throughout covering the story. Betsy, he said that, look, i couldnt have done this by
myself, right . You want to think that this entire probe is politically motivated . Yes, i sent texts that now i regret. The reality is there was an entire system that was built around me. I couldnt have launched this by myself. One of the Conspiracy Theories weve heard from some corners on the right about the Mueller Probe is peter strzok as an individual is sort of the key to the kingdom. He was this puppet master. He was involved in everything. And slowly as we learn more and more about the investigation, that Conspiracy Theory has just fell apart. One thing i can tell you, when peter strzok went in for his behind closed door interview a couple weeks ago, republicans pressed him whether or not he was involved in drafting and moving forward the fisa application that set up the surveillance of carter page. Right. Peter strzok said, nope, wasnt me. Thats not a question that came up publicly because they didnt want to hear peter strzok once again reiterate he wasnt secretly controlling this entire probe. Jeremy bash, betsy woodruff, mike, thank you for a great discussion at the top of the show. Just ahead republican
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television ads. Again f youre talking about otherwise available information, i dont see an issue with that. So, you have said of the mueller indictments more broadly that some of what your republican colleagues have had to say about the content should be taken with a grain of salt. What did you mean by that . Because theyre flying off the listen, rosenstein should not be impeached. Thats ridiculous. This is not a witch hunt. I think actually the indictments that just came out demonstrate the validity of the investigation itself. Russia is interfering in elections across the globe. I was in a bipartisan delegation last week, italy, bosnia. Thats just two countries to name where russia is actively engaged in trying to press their political view amongst certain candidates in the campaign realm. I think that is a very serious issue and someone said this, and they were spot on. I think it was rosenstein. This isnt about even what the russians did to help donald trump. This is about because its
going to be someone else next time. This is about russia seeking to impact our democracy and the integrity of our election process. So why wont more republican members in your auguste body is it auguste . There are people who do feel it is a legitimate investigation. And, you know, the circus that went on last week was just that, it was a circus. I think that most people feel that this is a legitimate investigation. It should proceed to its logical conclusion, whatever that is. I would also note at this point in time there hasnt been a demonstration that there has been american participation in what russia was doing to influence the election. That to me, whats the crux of what needs to be demonstrated or else the investigation should come to a close, whether or not there was any active participation the collusion question. Yeah. Take me sort of behind the
scenes of your conference in the wake of that strzok hearing. I mean, did you take that as one of our earlier panelists suggested, people were posturing to make it on Reel On Fox News to be seen by the president , is that your view of it . I think thats most peoples view of it. Lets be real here. Clearly not the participants. I think they were all booked that night. Im sure they got a lot of retweets for 30 seconds there. Thats what some people do and democrats i think probably did it on the other side. But thats what that was. There was nothing terribly probative about that hearing at all. Do you think that republicans are going to lose control of the House Of Representatives as of today . I think its going to be close. I think that the democrat candidates are putting up some very big quarterly numbers. You still have to go race by race. And in the suburban districts you have a lot of talented incumbents, barbara come stock, mike virginia and colorado. Yep. Its still going to come down to
the one on one match up. I do think the winds are blowing at republicans. We all know that. Trump is not popular in a lot of these competitive suburban districts. So why is his Approval Rating so high, then . He a you ha you have to look district by district. If you were to look at a suburban district in pennsylvania, it would not be high. In his defense as a politician, republicans are allin. They feel promises made promises kept. The issue they have is College Educated republican women, number one, and independent voters. Independent voters are not aligning themselves with the trump agenda right now. So as a republican you have to be an independent check and balance as an institutionalist on the presidency when you disagree. But still proffer why the economy is strong, why we are keeping america safe, issues of that sort where you can align policy wise with the president. Congressman Ryan Costello, always appreciate your perspective. Good to be with you. When we come back, signs the
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