attention in the way in which the president twists his opponents into knots. remember how democrats and their media cast trump in the early days of his presidency. they said well, he s no knot well and he just has this blood thirst, this lust for war. the president of the united states is completely unhinged and getting worse by the day. he is not fit temperamentally. donald trump is destabilizing the he ll he has no idea what do do in the aftermath. in order to get elected, donald trump will start a war with iran. laura: boy, do they look ridiculous tonight or what. as you know, the president called off strikes against iron last night, due to his concern that the response would not be proportional to iran s action. here he is, taking chuck todd throughout decision making process. they said, 6 we d like a
who might not be tuning in yet, might not be tuning into the concerns that he s outlining t that, a civics lesson, but it s a way to reach never-trumper republicans who are watching from afar who are going to sit it out next year to say, look, this is so not normal. no matter what you think of me or the hyde amendment, you ve got to come back to your country. you ve got to think about how close we are to an abuse of power over and over and on autocracy. it might be an interesting time in the primary but it s a compelling general election message. to garrett s point about the blood thirst in politics, if anything happens to joe biden, think about how that affects the next stack of in candidates and how quickly someone will rise to fill that vacuum. cu and that s really interesting because if you look at the chunks of support of people who are competing for each other s u support are senator warren and senator sanders. right.to and they are the anti-biden.
forth with one of the republican members, jordan, about what s under the redactions to be so remarkable. in terms of the original mandate for the mueller probe that rod rosenstein had at least amended after the initial approval for the mueller probe at the beginning. right. because their blood thirst to find this is a witch-hunt is leading members of congress to ask to see what s under redactions in an open hearing. again, it s just remarkable how opposed certain members of congress are to this investigation and i ve just never seen an exchange like that, to lift the veil put there to protect the integrity of the justice department. that s why they redact documents. that s what s striking particularly. do they have a way of releasing something in committee? they have to do it in a closed session of the committee. they could. if there is still a law enforcement purpose for it, they
whipped. outrage minus any solution creates a blood thirst targetin americans trying to solve a problem that the loudest voices never cared about until now. a simple google search will find terrible tales of child sex trafficking. is that the alternative you would want for 125,000 unaccompanied minors who ve come to america since 2011 from guatemala, honduras, el salvador. i got that stat for washington post 2016 article when president obama was in charge back when peter fonda and the rest didn t seem to mind. since i wrote that beautiful monologue, thank you very much, america, peter fonda has since apologized, claiming about the barron trump thing, i went too far. it was wrong and i shouldn t have done it. i believe he issued a an apology
question yesterday, is this response to the attack a norm that was violated but that his supporters would love or is this one where he s actually jeopardized the case? i think it s both. and i think when you look at what he s doing there is a consistency in his response to these kind of situations. to terrorism when the terrorism appears to be carried out by somebody who is from an arab country, muslim country, not from the united states. this is the rhetoric we heard all throughout the campaign. the blood thirst. the aggression. the retribution. those are things his supporters really like. now that he s president, it is problematic. as pete pointed out. the fact these are subtle legalities, basically tells you that this never once occurred to the president because he was just answering a question. and everything is done kind of rapid fire in the moment, just read and react. that s all improvisational. but it does the unifying