election eve scandal. the new york times peter baker writes this is the latest example of a president losing control of his narrative write the past few days have offered a series of revelations that conflicted with the version of events mr. trump and his associates had previously provided. he adds the shifting statements illustrated why some of the president s lawyers have urned him not to submit to the an interview by robert muler. let s bring in the roundtable. arab ca warner from the washington post, adolpho franco, rnc surrogate. and jason johnson is a politics editoren is the editor at the root.com and political contributor. adolph foe for the defense what do you make of this rudy thing. start with me. you re fun. you re in the barrel again tonight. what is this about. are they roughing their way to the truth here? i think the president is still denying two key factors. he didn t order the payment of the hush money for the woman he was involved with, and two it
work being an executive branch or a lawyer? it takes seven or eight years to get there? nobody put a gun to his head to lead the benghazi investigation. that was a plum job which he sought and wanted. the fact is. it sounds like stormy daniels saying i was in the room. remember her testimony? i was in the room. but president trump got it right. i don t want to go as far as saying a loser. what did he say to voters in the last four elections? did he tell them as he went out, don t re-elect him? this is a joke, this isn t working. > remember in 2016, he practically didn t run again. when boehner resigned they tried to draft him to be majority leader. he turned that down. he s had kind of very public like waffling about the point of being in congress and his own role in congress. adolph foe, put your defensive hat. you re the goalie now. in the hockey game.
spittle wing of the gop is firmly in charge. existence of reckless partisans such as announce is not surprising. cowardice among elected republicans is staggering. this is a rare case when the rats rather than deserting a sinking ship seem determined to ride it all the way down. for more, i m joined by michael steele, former rnc chair and contributor and adolph foe trank co, republican strategist. give me your thoughts about the republican party today and the way it changed its public view, all the members of the party. republicans who vote republican don t like the way the fbi does business now. i disagree with the whole premise that republicans don t like what the fbi is doing. republicans are concerned about specific individuals at the fbi and positions of authority including the deputy director now resigned. immediately after the review of the announce memo what was going on, who was being manipulated.