the new york times like james comey den, information he wanted to get out there. if you read through the piece he wrote, it s maddening. the fbi, the pfizer court is in great court there s nothing wrong with the fbi because it is the fbi. he is assuming that the fbi doesn t have a bad p.r. problem right now. and they do. the reason they have a bad p.r. problem is not because donald trump and these people are pointing out these things, there are really bad things as it happened. it put their credibility, a lot of top agents s credibility into question. and not the least which came out in this memo. everybody would be a lot better served if we step back and tried to fix the problems instead of just saying, well, there are no problems here. shannon: i want to make sure we get to you on your second topic, kneeling for the
comey den, information he wanted to get out there. if you read through the piece he wrote, it s maddening. the fbi, the pfizer court is in great court there s nothing wrong with the fbi because it is the fbi. he is assuming that the fbi doesn t have a bad p.r. problem right now. and they do. the reason they have a bad p.r. problem is not because donald trump and these people are pointing out these things, there are really bad things as it happened. it put their credibility, a lot of top agents s credibility into question. and not the least which came out in this memo. everybody would be a lot better served if we step back and tried to fix the problems instead of just saying, well, there are no problems here. shannon: i want to make sure we get to you on your second topic, kneeling for the
prices of insurers went up on the news mcwacain was voting against the bill. instead of going against the industries and circuits co-opted them, brought them into the legislation. that s created so many different veto points. not just the governors or hospitals. it s not just the health insurers themselves that any republican repeal and replace plan has to overcome. this goes to let me tell you, though, this goes to the that was the lesson democrats learned after 94. went against industry. there are stakeholders. get everybody in the room. republicans never did this. i don t understand it. and durability of this law president obama learned from efforts of bill clinton, richard nixon and jimmy carter, you need the industry at the table and a tough compromise for insurers suffering years of bad p.r. shutting off sick people throwing off coverage.
one, he put his son in jeopardy. now we have to wonder about what don junior s team will tell you about what he actually did. if he didn t know about the e-mail, the statement may have fooled you. if you know about the e-mail with don junior, it s a misleading statement. if that s true, that was a bad decision by the president, which will make us ask for questions. when you get caught in a lie about one thing it makes it hard to just say, let the other stuff go. that s a republican senator saying that. a lot of times when the democrats on these committees say we need to talk to this witness again, bring this person back, a long way to go. the president, as in the past, see if this is new world order, tweets democrats witchwitch-hun this is a republican senator saying we got to talk to everybody. and may end up absolutely nothing except a bad p.r. instance and judgment. when an investigation becomes
donald trump, jr., taking this meeting? no, jay sekulow is 1000% right. was there something wrong with taking the meeting? perhaps, it is now embarrassing and nothing productive came from it. was it illegal to take the meeting? absolutely not. i m going to take it one step further and say this. if you had some evidence of a crime and you investigate further, that is justice. when you have no evidence of a crime and you investigate anywa anyway, that is a witch hunt and that s what we have going. heather: we were speaking earlier about this in the first hour and saying it may be bad p.r., it may be that optics but that is not illegal. bad p.r. is not illegal. taking a meeting with a foreign government in order to have them in some way impact an election is illegal. whether or not we can make that conclusion, i don t think we can actually make that conclusion right now. what i do think is that there is smoke here.