presidents day may demonstrate that it s become hook, line and sinker the party of donald trump and that s scary do you worry that it could go up to the supreme court and he has a clear majority with justice kavanaugh. here s the difficulty i don t think donald trump cares if it does go all the way because i don t believe donald trump cares if he wins or loses in court on getting this emergency declaration why what do you think he s doing if his plan is not to win it s just theater he s using the power of the presidency to essentially perform to his shrinking base because he made a campaign promise and he wants to demonstrate that this is a guy who keeps his promises he wouldn t be so blatantly violating the law and you can hear all his own people whether it s in homeland security or otherwise explain that the president doesn t have the power to do this, and even his best, brainy adviser mr. miller couldn t explain how you justify raiding pots of money that
president and russia right after the comey firing. a couple of thoughts about this, andrea. first of all, this is not the first time we heard about this. remember the new york times heard about this this fall and then decided not to. what we were told at the time was if he went down to the white house and resigned it would look like he was doing something wrong and secondly, president s tweet, he says they were caught doing this will remember this was mccabe s disclosure and so no one was caught by some third party. the other point is when we first asked about this last fall, we were told we talked to some people in the room and their recollection of this was different than mr. mccabe s. what they say is, yes, rosenstein did it sarcastically, like, what do you want me to do, andy? wear a wire? mccabe thinks it was serious enough to go talk to the fbi general counsel.
the justice department did put a statement out when the excerpts came out last week and here is a relevant portion. they say mr. mccabe s reser tagz of events is factually incorrect. the deputy attorney general never authorized any recording that mr. mccabe references. it doesn t say that he didn t talk about it. he said he didn t authorize it. it was talked about, we have varying accounts about how seriously they were brought up and of course, as they say it didn t happen. one other point just to make clear. wearing a wire is cop talk. what it means is wearing a hidden recording device and this is commonly used when you put somebody in to talk to someone to gather evidence. chuck rosenberg, you ve worked with all of these people. andrew mccabe, extraordinary interview and shocking on so many levels and we know he s facing possible legal action because of the possibility that