and what republicans have traditionally stood for. would you only run as a republican? i think so. welcome back to hardball. that was retiring senator jeff flake arguing that a republican should challenge trump. 90% of republican voter support him. anyone like bush or kasich who looks like they are getting ready to take him on? wouldn t be surprise and i don t know if he will get reelected, but they will neat dental records to identify whoever takes him on. he will pulverize him. i agree, but i guess the only thing that would kind of lead towards a path would be if there was a big strong blue wave in 2018 that allowed and really used it to beat up the question
embarrassed. the washington post reported months ago that he fell for a fake email someone in the clinton campaign, sent from a woman named loretta lynch was an energy lobbyist in california. the guy is naive. the guy is a rube. bob mueller s command we should be talking about. bob mueller was appointed. we are talking about comey because he s writing a book. he is writing a book that led to the investigation. comey has been deified by the press corps. they loved him when he took on bush. they loved him when he let hillary go. laura: he loves being in the spotlight. he loves his moment in the sun. i that you want us to her, no one is going to ask hard questions. such as you said you leaked that memo to the columbia university professor. who else did you routinely leak things to? laura: we are out of time. we forgot to mention that. anyone who gets in the car and writes a memo to the file is not
we can do an hour on that, whether it was a legitimate opening of investigation? you have five people. laura: we could go through a floor of any building. if you want to indict someone. mueller was a person of high ideals, clear sense of purpose. laura: we are not going to do this. it is ari from 2001. i still believe that about bob mueller. bob miller is not james comey. where james comey shows is that prosecutors who have bad judgment will make mistakes, not everybody is perfect at the department of justice or the fb fbi. it s an interesting and important reminder for bob mueller as he goes forward. what we know about james comey, and you said it, the things he did before the election were wrong and it goes back to the bush administration when he grand standard on one of the intelligence programs we had and
i m sure they are riveting. riveting about women. i m sure mueller is thrilled. laura: we started with russian collusion. we are now at the billy bush tape. that s where we are right now. let s be clear. that s probably where we are. they are going to billy bush tape, going to the doorman, whether the doorman got money. it s all an impeachment set up from the beginning. i guess trump could be meeting with russian oligarchs in central park. we don t know that. i agree in terms of what it looks like, the southern district is looking at. laura: you know they are leaking. bank fraud. laura: they are leaking information on a daily basis. that office leaks, it always has. they shouldn t be leaking. even the stuff they are leaking, it s not a big deal. you re talking about garden-variety crimes. in the case of campaign finance,
advisors come from the mitt romney wing and they were uncomfortable with how the president approaches the major issues. laura: he is embarrassed by trump. he is not comfortable. laura: october 8, 2016, a day everybody is piling on trum trump. the billy bush tape came out. this is one of my favorite scenes ever in wisconsin politics. there is a bit of an elephant in the room. and it s a troubling situation. i m serious. it is. i put out a statement about this last night. i meant what i said and it is still how i feel. that s not what we are here to talk about today. thank you so much, you guys. god bless you all. thank you. appreciate it.