related to the original charge. that s a decision to be made by mr. mueller. on the subject of russia, the president wrote about russia, he was talking about the sanctions imposed by congress, a bill signed by the president. you were very active in pushing these sanctions through the senate and also through the house as well. this is what the president wrote about this. he said our relationship with russia is at an all-time and very dangerous low. you can thank congress, the same people that can t even give us health care. he blamed congress for the bad relationship with russia. bill krystal with the weekly standard noted, he s blaming america, it seems, for what russia has done. that s exactly right. russia is responsible for the deterioration of the relationship between the united states and russia. russia attacked us and our election system. russia has invaded other countries in europe. russia is interfering in a peaceful way to end the conflict in syria. it s russia s activitie
to look into the cia agent. the bush folks and the conservative media went after him, too. a guy named bill krystal went on news saying patrick fitzgerald is a partisan, he s out to politically wound the bush administration. in this current administration, we are used to this new president doing stuff his own way. he does stuff in kind of a crazy way for politicians, right? but going after the investigators who are looking into a president or looking into a scandal, trying to smear the investigators? that s not something that only crazy seeming presidents do. that s something normal political figures do and have done since the beginning of time. and we are now seeing a concerted effort on the right to try to attack former fbi director james comey and former fbi director robert mueller amazing to see the conservative media trying to destroy two former fbi directors. that is a hard sell. beyond that, we ve also seen a turn in the conservative media just in the past few days for
eugene robinson and editor at large at the weekly standard bill krystal. what was that? you guys get that way. you re saying hold off on voting for this bill. let s see what the congressional budget office says and why don t you read the damn bill before voting on it? if there was such a republican mantra in tween and not unreasonably because there were all kind of problems with blake that might have been averted. and how could they do this behind closed doors when all they did, starting with mitch mcconnell and every republican and we did it, too, how can they go behind the scenes and do a bill that nobody even reads, not even their own members. there s a reason there s a committee system and there s
trump. and then gop congressman chris collins saying this. i can only hope that the democrats do tone down the rhetoric, that the rhetoric has been outrageous of the finger pointing, just the tone and the angst and the anger directed at donald trump, his supporters. really, then, you know, some people react to things like that. they get angry as well and then you fuel the fires. with me, bill krystal, editor at large for the weekly standard and clarence page, from the chicago tribune. clarence, any problems about people speaking out and getting political about this? i think it s inevitable after a tragedy of this sort. i ve been pleasantly surprised there wasn t more of what i call the reflexive rhetoric you expect from the right and the left. congressman collins, i
do without it. i m a little shocked how deep it s gone. i have old friends e-mailing me today saying don t fall for this talk how we should all be polite and prer today. we have to make the point that chris collins made about the left being outrageous about trump. really, we have to make it today? why? what s going to change next week, you know what i mean? it s like you go to a funeral. there are a lot of things you could say. an occasion for reflection. on the day of the funeral, i hope there is no funeral in this case except for the shooter. on the day of a shooting we could just not really talk about this. i totally agree with you, bill. because i have a big thing on manners and being polite to each other and treat l people with respec respect. the problem is i ve covered so many of these and it s like we really don t we feel terrible for a day or two and then we re really concerned and we re really going to try to work together and try to figure out solutions. yet here we are