Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Today had as much to do with the president but now that you have people that the Justice Department indicts, like congressman Duncan Hunter adopting the president s rhetoric, the chief Law Enforcement general in this country felt like he had to push back. We have to consider the context in which this is happening. The Justice Department has extracted guilty pleas or convictions for the president s former lawyer and fixer, his campaign chairman, his National Security advisor and Foreign Policy advisor. Indicted his number one Congressional Republican supporter and number two Congressional Republican supporter. He told the the New York Times that he had Great Respect for eric holder because in his view he totally protected president obama. We can debate the facts of that but it suggests the president views the role of Attorney General as protecting him primarily and he doesnt separate himself from the institution. Je
87% approval rating among republicans in the latest fox news poll is not someone to be messed with two and a half months before the election. the fact of what he does does not matter to them. but mueller s 60% mueller had a higher approval than trump in that poll, which is interesting. what will move republican lawmakers is when president trump s support among their voters crashes. that is the only thing that will cause them to take meaningful losing power in november. i think if the result is bad in november, you ll get a bunch, whoever is left, you ll get a bunch of them at least. and it will be the opposition party then making that decision. very interesting. we ll take a pause here, stick around. after the break we ll talk to a republican member of congress for a bit of reaction on all of today s big developments, yesterday s big developments, the whole week s big developments. and later, we are going to break down the anatomy of, and there s no more accurate way to
told us that the police department has put a request in to the judge not sure if judge nelson has received it yet, that the verdict come out on a weekday. what do you make of that? they re trying to anticipate what reaction will be. i believe it s perfectly reasonable for law enforcement to make all precautions they think are necessary in case there are very civil protests that happen on the back of this verdict, or if there are other kinds of protests. but i do think that from what i ve heard on some social networks and some commentators across other networks, the idea that there will be violent rioting on the back of this verdict both defies it history and it is irresponsible. if you know anything, anything at all about the anatomy of, the structure of riots over historic o historical underpin bes with it has a lot more to do than with race. they can neither be planned nor can they be led. the very idea that people are