listen to what the attorney general said today during a cabinet meeting, this praise-a-thon. we are receiving, as you know, i m not sure the rest of you fully understand, the support, with law enforcement all over america. they have been very frustrated. they are so thrilled that we have a new idea, that we re going to support them and work together to properly, lawfully fight the rising crime that we re seeing. it s an honor to be able to serve you in that regard. you sent the exact right message, and it s being responded the response is fabulous around the country. richard, what do you think of that? all joking aside, it has been reported that the president and the attorney general s relationship has been on thin ice. what do you make of this exchange today? well, i don t know what to make of that. everybody in the room was busy kissing up to the boss there.
of politics, it s the smear campaign now. you know, with this administration, if they don t like you, they will let you know, and let the public know. they are not afraid of playing the partisan game. you know, if you are considered a democrat, or there s a thought that you re a democrat, that is an ugly word. it s a pejorative now. if they don t like you for something that you re doing, they will go after you. the talking points, we ve heard it today, against mueller. the issue is, again, the politics of politics are gone. it is a smear campaign now. we also know that the president has been angry at the attorney general jeff sessions for recusing himself from the russia investigation. listen to what the attorney general said today during a cabinet meeting, this praise-a-thon. we are receiving, as you know, i m not sure the rest of you fully understand, the support, with law enforcement
some breaking news tonight. hawaii attorney general doug chin files a briefing in the u.s. supreme court opposing the justice department s request to put president trump s revised travel ban into effect. and this morning, the ninth circuit court of appeals upheld the block on the ban. douglas chin, the attorney general of hawaii, joins me now. good evening to you, sir. you re all smiles today. what s your reaction to the decision? well, we were very encouraged by the decision that came out from the ninth circuit court of appeals. that was a decision that confirmed that our injunction against the travel ban should stand, and the reason for it was entirely new reason, that had not been really raised by the courts before. we ve been raising it in our briefs from the very beginning. but essentially what they were finding is the problem with the
sort of impugning the reputation of robert mueller. it happened with comey. this is a deliberate strategy on the part of the white house and the administration. it s no longer the politics of politics, it s the smear campaign now. you know, with this administration, if they don t like you, they will let you know, and let the public know. they are not afraid of playing the partisan game. you know, if you are considered a democrat, or there s a thought that you re a democrat, that is an ugly word. it s a pejorative now. if they don t like you for something that you re doing, they will go after you. the talking points, we ve heard it today, against mueller. the issue is, again, the politics of politics are gone. it is a smear campaign now. we also know that the president has been angry at the attorney general jeff sessions for recusing himself from the russia investigation.
a knee-jerk reaction in a lot of instances, but he s also a man who feels that his base is with him. he is not the establishment. he is pushing the envelope. and this might just push it too far, if he does indeed fire robert mueller as special counsel in this probe into the russia investigation, that s dealing with issues of obstruction of justice possibly as well as collusion. it seems like that all of this is making the president s own making, these problems. because he s the one who started tweeting about these things. rod rosenstein chose to, i guess, fire him. but to hire mueller after the president fired comey. this is the president s own making, correct? right, it is. but the thing that i think we need to understand is that some of this continues to be within his power. the attorney general can, you know, and the deputy attorney general still report to the president.