well, i mean, there s constitutional duty. what he has, he s the commander in chief. that was my biggest issue with him, as national security adviser. white house advisers to former president trump understood the constitutional oath of the presidency. trump apparently did not. mika, as we have gone through the testimonies, as we ve talked through this the past several hours, one thing really does keep sticking out to me, and that is the testimony of cipollone, where he was asked who else in the white house agreed with the president that the riot should continue. who in the white house did not want him to stop the riots, did not want him to speak out and tell them to stop. he said nobody. nobody. he said nobody. nobody inside the white house wanted the riots to continue. let me put it a different way. everybody in the white house wanted the president to act affirmatively to stop the riots. they told him that. he refused. his family members, his children, told him tha
the race stands at this hour. plus the nba player who took a stand quite literally from the national anthem. jonathan isaac of the orlando magic joins us to talk about his new book on the inside story of what was really happening in the nba. trace gallagher is on the case tonight. good evening, trace? reporter: the white house and the department of homeland security both noted today with a straight face that the dhs information board was shut down because of disinformation quoting the board has been grossly and intentionally mischaracterized. it was never about censorship or policing speech in any manner yet that was exactly the worry of so many republican lawmakers who felt the disinformation board or ministry of truth as many conservatives who refer to it wasn t nearly as concerned as foreign information threats as domestic opinions. utah republican senator mitt romney called the board a terrible idea that communicates to the world we are going to be spreading propaganda
the secretary of agriculture should have been empowered to act affirmatively. now what we re seeing is a blame game. oh, it s not me. it s the guy behind the tree. i hope that we see some action soon, but we ve already had two children hospitalized. how many more before they get this problem behind us? shannon: washington post editorial board tonight has a piece where they say this, the nation needs a full and rationale accounting of this mess and the troubling questions about why it took so long for the fda to look into the abbott plant after a whistle-blower came forward way back in october. richard, do you think we re going to get answers and accountability on this? listen, i hope we do. i m the biggest proponent of government accountability and transparency so americans know exactly where their money is going with that being said, look at this problem and lap it at the foot of the president and it s all joe biden s fault and his incompetence, that s a simplified way of lookin
the president and he shouldn t expect to be able to the this without blowback. does this rise to that kind of a moment for you? how have you been thinking about this in terms of the overall magnitude of the challenge that we face as a country and the seriousness of that investigation? well, you know, i think of it this way. for the last year or more, mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, the two senior republican leaders in the congress have been saying we don t really think the president is going to interfere with the investigation. we don t think he is going to fire bob mueller, so we don t have to take any legislative action, even though there is bipartisan legislation that would protect bob mueller. well, that fig leaf has been yanked away and exposed for what it is, a bunch of wishful thinking. well ought to act affirmatively now. we ought to take up this bill in the last week of this session and make sure that mueller is protected so that we don t have to wonder what happens in the ki
we live is going to be overwhelmed by the media and events. i think he did a good job today on driving a message on the economy. for the next few months he ll be facing a lot more challenges, things we can t anticipate. the difficulty jonathan talked about dealing with the reality much of the economic news is bad, much of the country is hurting. democrats are not talking up what the white house has done or what the president is proposing now. that does not give him a big army to fight with either on defending the past or doubting the past or talking up his current proposals. jonathan alter, the proposals, how well is he framing them now, trying to draw distinctions between the democrats and republicans? it s a tough men partly because of the way the tax cut is framed. it s set to expire unless they act affirmatively. you have to deal with double