that person, our intelligence community colleague. so different from the tone the president has already taken attacking this person, describing them as a partisan, questioning their patriotism, questioning whether they re even an american and all this stuff. is there a fight here between the president and the acting director of national intelligence who he just recently appointed? not that we know of but there is a difference in body posture on this issue, even as you read between the lines there. i think that they have seen the reaction to this. the reaction has been stronger than anything else that we ve seen. certainly more significant than the mueller report. more significant than pick your other thing that the president has done. and my guess is that that woke up some folks in the city or at least in the administration to the severity of this issue. michael schmidt, washington correspondent for the new york times playing an important role in breaking this continuing to break
but he could wake up tomorrow morning and realize that this transcript may look bad in other ways and, you know, giuliani says maybe we shouldn t do it and they don t do it. so it s very fluid, but very similar to a lot of other things we ve seen with them. you kind of have to sit back and cover it through the minutes. last question for you. i was struck, as you might have noted, by the tone of this letter from the director of national intelligence to the counsel of the whistleblower, essentially praising the whistleblower and acknowledging that person, our intelligence community colleague. so different from the tone the president has already taken attacking this person, describing them as a partisan, questioning their patriotism, questioning whether they re even an american and all this stuff. is there a fight here between the president and the acting director of national intelligence who he just recently appointed? not that we know of but there is a difference of body posture on
can love that. no other city has produced as many accomplished speed jumpers. their training using a human flight simulator. but you just go to work that s how children learn the proper body posture and they lose their fear of jumping over the years like. this ski jumper wearing a good number forty one has no fear tight he is believed to be invincible. but he tells us that his train is to participate in the world championships after he s won then he wants to go on to win an lympics gold at the again this fighting
who is also an msnbc security contributor. before we get to the possibility, michael, of what the u.s. might do about it, there has to be some level of acceptance. apparently intel officials and what we may have learned about what they know and what they don t. so as we saw yesterday, trump changing his rhetoric and sort of his body posture on this issue, going by way of death. the murder went the way people thought it would have. the turks sent stuff in, folks in the middle east sent stuff to the united states, the united states had their own materials, and there was just an overwhelming amount of stuff that tied folks around mbs to this incident.
president s lawyers they would allow any white house official to meet with the special counsel s office. they provided them with a lot of documents. this is the new body posture and we see it playing out constantly with rudy who goes out and throws a lot of different things at the wall for the president on the investigation. and what about what john dowd told the new york times, specifically about swinging public opinion? well, so what has gone on here is that the president s lawyers have concluded that the only threat that they think he has is impeachment. they don t think he will be indictmented by mueller. they don t think he has any other exposure. what they have tried to do is move public opinion in their favor because they realize that the only thing that they could really face is a vote in the house of representatives. and that vote would be based on the public sentiment. if you look at polls that came out or one that came out at the end of last week, the