then they go, to say the president used fake news with any serious intent is well, fake news. they re pushing back. but adopting his terminology. right. joy, in american parlance, this is called receipts. he s a notorious liar when he has interactions with foreign leaders, theresa may, angela merkel. he said he didn t say he said things that he gets caught for. i agree with this on two levels. one, i never say fake news. i never alternative facts because i refuse to allow the ear worm of this man s language to become part of my parlance when i discuss american politics. to the degree we begin to use the terminology of donald trump is the degree to which we allow him and the dangerous way that he runs this kcountry to become normalized. i talk to my students.
of course in the clinton ken starr investigation, they ended up doing it in the white house, there was closed circuit television. i think this would be a running gun battle, a legal battle between the jay sekulows of the world and bob mueller. i put my money on bob mueller. i think the trump team may have thought they might have had to take this all the way to the supreme court, which is why they might need to find an appellate lawyer like ted olson, but of course ted olson said no. we heard from sally yates tonight, interviewed by our friend matt apuzzo at georgetown law school. i think it would be a huge problem for our kcountry if he fired director mueller. we re not talking about some tangential issue here. we re talking about the issue as to a foreign adversary s attack on our democracy.
would you like to weigh? well, listening to the clip, and we did not hear the clip, but the bannon says wear those names as a badge of honor, and he did not say don t get distracted when the democrats or people call you a racist or zen phobe, and wear it a as badge of honor and this is the problem with the president, because it is a badge of honor, and it is not just the words, but the actions that have caused the division in the kcountry, and te depression with civil rights and social justice issue, and so it is not the words, john, but it is the ak shubs of the president and the justice department under jeff sessions that has this country divided among racial lines. we will leave it there. arena, and john martin, and sorry, i have you together, john thomas, and dave jacobson, and we are family, and that is why i say that. thank you. thank you, fred. all right. straight ahead. the u.s. trade partners are blasting the president s plan to move ahead with a steep tariffs
[ inaudible ] sounds like we ve lost audrey. we ll try to reconnect with her. but i wonder commissioner what you make of the idea that the students didn t know there was something going on until what i have to imagine were the local news helicopters above. what she was saying with nbc earlier was that the first awareness that there was something going on was the rapid rifrl of arrival of a lot of police and police helicopter overhead. that s what she was describing. if you think of it, we re talking about this awful tragedy, but we re a kcountry that is engulfed with gun related incidents. and the u.s. senate will be debating whether on or not any
where he a accused him of being born in different kcountry, and it took a while for him to be coming around to that topic even though barack obama said for a long time that he was born in the united states. so this white house is yet dealing with another crisis as they have another big topics to deal with in the coming week. fred. thank you, ryan nobles at the white house. joining me is cnn politicalablist and washington post writer josh dausey and here we go. it is exhausting. i know. you sent out a tweet to remind us how exhausting it is sending out a chaotic first few weeks of 2018 for the trump administration, and this is the tweet. in week, spousal abuse, and one week a ago the memo, and two