democracy and oversight. but about a single person. he s tried to revisit the play book he used against bob mueller, against mueller s prosecutors, he used against christopher steel to attack the backgrounds, the connections, the relationships of a single person not recognizing that the issues are so much bigger than a single person. i think what we re seeing are those others who were as michael schmidt alluded to, much more directly involved in these matters. coming forward to say, this is not about a single person. we witnessed this, it sounds like in some cases, firsthand. and we will help dispel the notion that this can be personified. because frankly, it can t be personified. this is about in some cases, what we cherish most as a country that donald trump has decided to subordinate to his own personal and political prerogatives. hal rains, new york times, more great reporting tonight.
he s tried to revisit the play book he used against bob mueller, against mueller s prosecutors, he used against christopher steel to attack the backgrounds, the connections, the relationships of a single person not recognizing that the issues are so much bigger than a single person. i think what we re seeing are those others who were as michael schmidt alluded to, much more directly involved in these matters. coming forward to say, this is not about a single person. we witnessed this, it sounds like in some cases, firsthand. and we will help dispel the notion that this can be personified. because frankly, it can t be personified. this is about in some cases, what we cherish most as a country that donald trump has decided to subordinate to his own personal and political prerogatives. hal rains, new york times, more great reporting tonight. advancing the story. and then we see the congress
throughout the week and really seemed to drive the president into a tweeting frenzy and certainly coupled with all these other things going on involving the government shutdown and the reaction to his comments on syria, you can only imagine why we started hearing these phrases about the president being in a tail spin. i think it wasn t just one issue, it was this put together with all of these other things. and i think, you know, in terms of going forward in the next couple of months, what you mentioned about bill barr s memo i think could be very problematic for his nomination to be attorney general. i mean, it leaves me wondering are there 53 votes next year in the senate to confirm this man given the, you know, extreme skepticism and this sort of jihad if you will he seemed to go on against mueller s investigation. will republicans just line up and vote for this man despite that, and how do you address
rather than the president of the united states. that s right. president trump has been using the language of mobsters, of the sopranos, of the movie, the departed for a couple years now, to describe this. the use of the word rat the other day to describe michael cohen, his attorney, and fixer, was all pretty striking. it is part of the effort by trump and his attorney giuliani to wage a pr battle. against mueller and the cooping witnesses. so in this case, it is against cohen and trying to discredit cohen as a lawyer, trying to prove to the american people the crimes that mueller, excuse me, that cohen is implicating the president is is not true because cohen doesn t have credibility. the problem is the president doesn t have credibility either because he too tells lies such as denying those hush money
at some point if there are further questions. and i pressed him on that. i said, are you really not going to engage with the special counsel? he said, well, if they do have a question, i may consider it. he spent most of our conversation going back to michael cohen, taking shots at michael cohen, calling him a liar, trying to set this up as a credibility war against michael cohen, against mueller. the republican party is watching it with an eye a little bit askew, but they re not taking action because they still want to get their agenda done. that s the political bargain they continue to have with this president. it is hard to imagine this ramped up. it is hard to imagine what happens when this president and the white house, west wing staff, really go to the mattresses. as it is tonight, he s in argentina, quoting greg jarrett of fox news on twitter, which may indicate to us that he is watching the coverage. what is it going to be like? and is that legal team preparing