with the white house? i suspect not. i suspect the timing of these answers which is related to the timing of jeff sessions being fired and the new acting attorney general being appointed. i suspect that the president knows that mueller no longer has the leverage of a subpoena to threaten, because the acting attorney general wouldn t approve one. so now the answers he gives will be very circumscribed, to say the least. and do not involve obstruction. that s right. that whole issue. circumscribed to only one area. matt miller, mimi rocah, thanks, both, so much. coming up, california burning. firefighters racing to contain wildfires across the state, the worst in state history, the death toll climbing. a live report, next. ath toll cln a live report, next. the greatest wish of all. is one that brings us together. the lincoln wish list event is here.
credence to this unless it sports that donald trump committed collusion with russia. it s as if this story could only go to one conclusion. we have to believe that robert mueller can get to the bottom. i will not turn a blind eye the way the press has where they only think the story can travel in one part and that part is to hurt donald trump. people in america need to know the truth. that s why i think it was the right thing to put this memo out. sean: without all of this happening and the basis for all of this, is lends itself to what happened with robert mueller being appointed. joe concha you study the media, you follow the media, i think this is the biggest corruption, abuse of power case in our lifetime, far bigger than watergate by a long shot. the media barely touched it and still clinic to the russia trump collusion story and there s never been a shred of evidence
better than anybody, better than the greatest cpa. i know the details of health care better than most. better than most. not better than the best cpa. joining us now is my panel. congressman, i want to start with you. i want to talk about what he had to say about robert mueller first, the idea that he thinks robert mueller is being fair. he said that over and over again. he also said there s no collusion. do you get the sense that his opinion of robert mueller s fairness is contingent on robert mueller not finding anything damaging with him? well, it s hard to say. i think that he was sending a signal that okay, i m going to quit criticizing this investigation and let the chips fall where they may. as you know, this has been going on previous to robert mueller being appointed. so after 16 months, we don t have a single thread of evidence that even suggests there was collusion. we have some people who lied to
circumstances in this investigation that probably led to special counsel being appointed. it was after that threat that comey said he felt he had to release these memos. we have seen donald trump have these sort of chain reaction series of self-inflicted wounds. this has potentially more dire consequences because it has a legal issue from a sitting president. this president has operated in his mind a consequence free environment for a long time. i think still does not entirely understand or does not want to understand what the implications of all of this could mean for him if there is no evidence of collusion and if nothing happened in his campaign. it is all of this aftermath that he has been stirring up. i think you saw tweets from him
slowness the legal track will move as he talks to donors and continues to chair the rga, et cetera. michael, to be clear, it s not just a legal track but the media track and the stories that continue to i ll point everybody s attention to a story in the new york times that came out yesterday evening which is, i think, scandalous as anything that has come out. it talks about how the christie administration used the port authority as a political. shortly after being appointed, david wildstein walked into a colleague s office at the port authority headquarters on park avenue south in manhattan and gestured toward the window. you know, that used to be tamidy hall. that is a seat of all corruption in new york. waiting to be, wildstein added, and the port authority is right here.