senator sasse said it is not a two-tiered system of justice. one for the majority party and one for the minority party. these two men are charged with crimes because of evidence not because of who the president was when the investigation began. senator jeff flake replied, this is not the conduct of a president committed to defending an upholding the constitution but rather a president looking to use the department of justice to settle political scores. through a spokesman speaker paul ryan responded to cnn, doj should always remain apolitical and the speaker demonstrated he takes these charges seriously. good. willie, it s it s almost boring, because at this point his tweets are so unimportant, but you get a sense of where he s trying to take this. you get the sense, ben mijam
at certain points they ve stood up and said jeff sessions is our man and other times suggested after, lindsey graham, after the midterms the president might be entitled to his own man. we ll see how the midterms unfold. obviously, democrats take back the senate, a whole other ball game. with respect to the obstruction of justice and his various commentaries seems clear in the case of the two congressmen he doesn t have a leg to stand on either as to the timing, severity of charges or appropriateness what the justice department did. on the fisa stuff, ben is there insight whether he has a claim or merits to what he is arguing? yes. there is no march it wherit wha. what is a really simple one. the fisa process works, it s a unique process in the federal court system, and we actually ran over the weekend a long piece by david crisp laying out
feeling like this isn t a great moment, even just for a couple of days for country. and there you have president trump. he knows he will never receive a funeral like that, when his day comes. and i think that makes him angry in a way that you wouldn t expect. certainly a sitting president of the united states to feel about a great american like john mccain. ben witis mika, again, you have a tweet he completely misstates the facts about fisa. again, putting a field goal into a baseball game. i mean, that s how bizarre that tweet was. and secondly, you have him quoting a new york times article that actually undercuts every single argument he has made about where this investigation began. i know. it s incredible. ben witis, thank you very much. still ahead on morning joe is jonathan swan was noting on twitter, a big blow to