it s throwing him for a loop, and he may try to recover next week with the state of the union, and that s probably what he s preparing that speech right now. susan well, and a lot of people are looking forward to that. they want to hear what he has to say. the daily caller asked the president if the acting a.g. whitaker, if he had communicated to the president that the mueller probe was wrapping up. trump says they haven t spoken about that, but did they have to because whitaker went on tv and said as much. well, that s right. first of all, that was some sort of a message sending. we don t know. was that intended to pressure the prosecutors? was it intended to send a signal to witnesses in the case, it s almost over, just hold out. or was it sending a message to the president? many people seem to think it was very inappropriate for him to have weighed in. it certainly seems highly unusual. normally the justice department would not talk in any such terms about an investigation l
didn t want to do that is he saw what happened when he fired fbi director comey. as a result of that he got a special counsel on this case, and his aides told him if he fired mueller the situation would be he would be ripe for impeachment. it s not that he deserves some kind of credit for observing the rule of law. it s some kind of self-preservation on his part. i want to add he has no hesitation at taking pot shots at the mueller investigation repeatedly on twitter talking about the witch hunt and mueller s angry democrats. so he s done everything he could to stir up his people, his base towards animosity towards the mueller investigation and to discredit it. but he realizes the political limits of going too far and actually trying to fire mueller. so he says he hasn t spoken to the acting ag whitaker about. but a term i ve been hearing a
people thought that he should do that. he hasn t ended it, but he s certainly tried to undermine it. sounds like a guy going through all the stages of grief, right? like, you know, denial, anger, and now maybe acceptance that it s coming. he s done everything he can to, you know, undermine it. he s tampered with witnesses. he s obstructed justice. he s tried to dangle pardons out there. he put in place, as the acting attorney general, someone we ll hear from on friday, next friday in the judiciary committee, a hired assassin essentially who i think was brought in because of his views about taking out the mueller investigation. so the best thing the president can do is to just, you know, allow the investigation to continue. you re talking about whitaker? well, yeah, whitaker is coming to congress next week. but the president should just allow the investigation to continue. and then when it s done, make sure that it s fully transparent and released to the american people. the gop
ft. lauderdale is spooking him. yeah, threw him for a loop. it s throwing him for a loop, and he may try to recover next week with the state of the union, and that s probably what he s preparing that speech right now. susan well, and a lot of people are looking forward to that. they want to hear what he has to say. the daily caller asked the president if the acting a.g. whitaker, if he had communicated to the president that the mueller probe was wrapping up. trump says they haven t spoken about that, but did they have to because whitaker went on tv and said as much. well, that s right. first of all, that was some sort of a message sending. we don t know. was that intended to pressure the prosecutors? was it intended to send a signal to witnesses in the case, it s almost over, just hold out. or was it sending a message to the president? many people seem to think it was very inappropriate for him to have weighed in. it certainly seems highly unusual. normally the justice depa
president trump spoke to the daily caller tonight, and he says he s going to leave the decision as to how to handle the mueller report to the justice department. he also says he could have terminated everything if he wanted to, even adding that many people thought that he should do that. he hasn t ended it, but he s certainly tried to undermine it. sounds like a guy going through all the stages of grief, right? like, you know, denial, anger, and now maybe acceptance that it s coming. he s done everything he can to, you know, undermine it. he s tampered with witnesses. he s obstructed justice. he s tried to dangle pardons out there. he put in place, as the acting attorney general, someone we ll hear from on friday, next friday in the judiciary committee, a hired assassin essentially who i think was brought in because of his views about taking out the mueller investigation. so the best thing the president can do is to just, you know, allow the investigation to continue. you re ta