anything differently. admiral rogers, body language was draped over the table saying, what have we got to deter putin? he said nothing. you know, you ve got an entire national security apparatus ham strung by the lack of interest from this president in doing anything to protect the country from russia. because donald trump is not interested in those things. he s not interested in the outcome of the november elections. he doesn t quite honestly care if republicans hold the house or lose the house because it s that has nothing to do with him. he ll work with whoever is there. he ll work with chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, whomever is does he worry about impeachment? he knows the stopgap is the senate. right. that s right. there won t be a conviction in the senate. he watched bill clinton deal with it and live with it. the 67% approval. right. for him those things are not of his interest because it don t affect him. just get to mar-a-lago faster, more golf, right? what
president has the right to do this. nobody has to confirm it. there are no checks and balances. this is how donald trump regards the presidency. why aren t all my powers like pardon power? good point. why does anybody have to say anything? so, suddenly he s realized this is something he found a button he can press. he can go like that. do what i want. i can do what i want. good point. that is what he s doing now and that is why it is also so scary. there is a process for this. i lived through this. most normal people seeking a pardon go through the justice department process and of course the white house can always big foot that process. but do you think there is concern in sort of law enforcement circles, justice department circles that this is just another finger in the eye of the rule of law? we re one step closer to being a third world power as of today. tariffs and pardons, these are things we see from banana republics. these are when authoritarians take char
but when you re getting to the quell of inat the point, that s why you want to hear from the person himself. we do know that the president gave rod rosenstein his draft firing letter of jim comey, and that mccabe actually got a copy of that draft from rosenstein and gave that draft to bob mueller along with copies of his memos. should mention we have a sense of what s in one of these memos. i m told maybe there s a half dozen more. obviously given the investigation and given the firing, you know, andy mccabe isn t on the interview circuit, but would obviously very much love to talk to him about what s in the other memos, right? because we all would. he has a standing invitation. half a dozen memos. let me stay on this with you, frank figliuzzi. one more from matt s great piece. he over sees an investigation to the president who points to mr. rosenstein s own actions as
and help out their political allies. this is destroying the whole idea of independent justice whether it s pushing on sessions or the rod rosenstein issue that we re talking about or in this case throwing around pardons based on personal connections and celebrities which the president seems to think of the most pressing issues in our country right now is going back after reality tv stars. joyce, you had a tweet about the similarities between i know we covered a little bit of this already but the s similarity between the kinds of charges michael cohen could be considered with shortly and dinesh d souza was convicted of and pardoned. these aren t just messages. these are strategies, legal strategies being laid bare and the other person that strikes me who is seeing all of this is bob mueller. i mean, would he want to interview the president about why he pardoned all these people? that would have to be a question on mueller s wish list if he ever gets his moment in the room with t
he gave his fact odem a letter and said deliver it to him in los angeles. he can t bring himself face to face, get out, i m firing you. weak executive leadership. it s even more pathetic than that. he wants to desperately. they malign him, he s the butt of all jokes. he s so impotent. he couldn t get anyone confirmed. that s why sessions has a job. i hope that was true. that would be a good ending. there is no leadership among the republican leadership. paul ryan, there s no reason he can t he knows in his heart everything trump does is inem cal to everything he stood for in politics and yet he says nothing. que the bots. i said the i word. trump s changing story in the comey firing, can the president get his facts straight in time for an interview with bob mueller?