trump has really been out there kind of running his own shop lately and the idea he would look for someone who would be a loyalist to him knowing that mueller s coming down the pike i think is very much in the realm of possibility. zurlina, from the standpoint of democrats looking to stop this thing and looking to find a republican vote there, how much hope do you think they can or should take from what susan collins is saying? i don t think we ve got to pin our hopes on hope. just for lack of a better expression. because i think in this particular moment with so many things on the line, voting rights, women s rights, workers rights, affirmative action, you have to fight even if you know you ultimately will lose. it s not just about getting that one republican. it s about calling those democrats. they re in moderate states like doug jones and joe manchin. and also make sure to call susan collins and lisa murkowski and ensure they are going to vote against this particular person or
asked about celebrities like robert de niro who publicly attacked trump and the owner of that virginia restaurant who kicked out press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, trump had this to say. i hope the other side realizes that they better just take it easy. they better just take it easy. because some of the language used, some of the words, even some of the radical ideas i really think they re very bad for the country. i think they re actually very dangerous for the country. we re back with our hardball round table. beth, laura, emily. emily, based on donald trump s political style, i kind of think he doesn t want his opponents to take it easy. it could be perceived as a veiled threat. but everything that representative could also be perceived as a veiled threat and i think there s ramped up rhetoric all around. it doesn t help the general national discourse but it certainly helps say the president and the congresswoman with their bases because it fires up their supporters.
who played an integral role as he has done repeatedly with other folks who have come under fire or have come under scrutiny or even indictment in the mueller investigation such as paul manafort, who the white house famously said had played a limited role for a limited period of time. that sort of defied credulity. this is a guy who s integral to the campaign. it would really defy credulity if they tried to dot same thing with michael cohen, who played an integral role not just in the campaign but in president trump s business affairs for more than a decade before the campaign. and caroline, how would mueller, how would the special prosecutor watching all of this, seeing this interview, seeing it, how would he read this? how would he react to this? remember, it s very important to remember that this was actually a referral by the special counsel s office to the southern district of new york, which the indication there is that mueller didn t see this as part of his ambit to begin wit
correlate dates, that sort of thing, you see folks, their instinct on this seems to be to take border security, to take the idea of having i.c.e. pretty seriously. is there a risk there for democrats, that hey, the politics of family separation were overwhelmingly favorable to them but the broader politics of immigration were dicier? i do think it is a political risk for democrats. actually, at huff post we did some polling today that showed that a lot of people in the country don t really haven t heard of this abolish ice hashtag campaign, they don t know what it means, and a majority of people aren t actually in favor of it. and i think a lot of the reason for that is because when you have with hashtag politics in general you can t really get into the nuanced conversation about what it really means to abolish i.c.e. people think it just means chaos on the border, and trump is seizing on that and saying they want open borders, she want ms-13 to just flood into this country when
deal. but analysts have looked at it and said this does not look like a country that is even moving in the direction of denuclearizing. they are still working on their nuclear program, their missile program. they re still expanding facilities both in open source reporting and in u.s. intelligence reporting, steve. as ken alluded to a minute ago, despite these reports of deception by north korea there are those in the white house who are remaining publicly optimistic about the negotiations. according to axios, some white house officials hope a round two with president trump can be held in new york in september when world leaders pour into trump s home town for the u.n. general assembly. and before that, ken, secretary of state mike pompeo is supposed to sit down with north korean officials much more much closer to right now. what is the sense, though, in terms of how forthcoming north korea s going to be in that sit-down with pompeo? well, that is exactly what u.s. officials for,