- - he really is. is that appropriate for a cia director to say about the president? i think for john, john s an extraordinary servant of the country. but i think he has been incredibly critical of the president and i think that has put him in a political place which actually does more damage for the intelligence community which is a political, even as he s retired. i don t support him being as critical of the present as he has been. the question of force is whether we are blurring the lines between politics and intelligence. i want to put up a statement that brennan said in an op-ed in the new york times after his security clearance was cleared. here it is. mr. trump s claim of no
case where the jury is an and deliberations. what do you think of the president s comment and how important is this case and the verdict that comes down for the special counsel investigation going forward? i think it is remarkable with the presidents them. i think it was inappropriate. but that could be said about half the things he says these days. but you are right, there was a time when presidents didn t weigh in in the middle of a jury deliberation. chris: if they did, they got hammered. it was inappropriate in those cases and this is inappropriate. if it bears a guilty verdict, i think that will create a sense of momentum behind the mueller investigation. i don t think there s any question. if there isn t, i think there will be further pressure from the president and his allies on mueller to wrap this up and cut
performer. can you believe this is the governor of the highest taxed state into a mac? andrew cuomo having a total meltdown and then, the tweet from cuomo who tried to dig himself out of this. the expression i used the other day was an artful so i want to be very clear, of course america is great. and of course america has always been great. no one questions about. some people are comparing it to hillary clinton calling some trumpet voters, the portables. having the present weekend, he put the phrase american carnage in his inaugural address so i m not sure he s the best arbiter of this. but having said that, this was a boneheaded comment by governor cuomo. there s no question. i understand the point he was trying to make it the end. that there are still too many people feeling left behind. that is not a unique perspective. that is a perspective that
i will not let you put this on the media. president trump has been talking about a shutdown. this is not generated by us. it s generated by the white house. that s fair. i m just fascinated that folks always to talk about a shutdown but the only shutdown we had were caused by senate democrats. this is the president s position on this. i was in the oval office when he communicated this to the leaders of the house. we re spending way too much money. we had to give the democrats a bunch of money to get the national offense funding during that last omnibus. no more omni buses and number two, i don t think he should spend all this money because we don t need to. but if you do, i would like to have my priorities funded. that s a reasonable position for the president to take. chris: i m asking aspecific question. is there a lot in time , september 30 will he push this off until after the midterms?
final subject which is a story in the number of times that the trump administration will impose regulations that will leave it to individual states to decide how to regulate and even whether to regulate power plants field by coal. is and is a national problem that needs a national standard. not state-by-state solutions? i don t me to dodge the question but i believe that matter is being considered at omb and apple is we do not comment on anything being overseen by the office of military affairs. i apologize, i didn t know you were going to ask that but i cannot speak to it. chris: the president is supposedly going to announce this on tuesday so sounds like it s been decided. again, i can t speak to that. chris: director mulvaney, thank you for joining us and speaking to all of the issues that you could. please come back. thanks chris. chris: when we come back, new