malign a former president. i think part of it is what we said, is that it plays very well with the base. we know how obama was dealt with by his base, how they felt about him. i also think there s something about donald trump. i think he recensents the fact t obama left as a respected president with high approval ratings, that the elites liked obama. and so he really wants to tear down the obama legacy. that is something that consumes him. again, the thing that we should be concerned about is what are the implications for the country, and is he thinking through i mean tpp was on there, the transpacific partnership. there has not been a greater gift to china than america s withdrawal from the transpacific partnership. that was going to be a bullwork against china in that region and now we have weakened it.
long, that he s not future of their party. they mute it. they don t want to deal with the story, brit bart. but they can get something of it. but some have been have begun to speak out. we ve seen it with john mccain. with bob corker. this looks like the president bush say iing at this moment in time that it s important for him to step in and sort of join that chorus as well and i think he represents a republican party that is different than the way the republican party is trying today and he embodies the lischment for good and bad. too much of the bush and clinton dynas dynasty, but the bush family has done a tremendous amount of public service and he believes in the value of establi establishmentarianism and the bullwork of everything he and his family sought to build up legacy wise. to look at it in the cop text of
we look at what the united states did after world war ii. we created the marshall plan for a reason. we wanted stability and a bullwork against the soviet union. when wanted a trade partner. we wanted to strengthen the world. the united states created an organizational structure. in fact, the united states became the post-powerful country on the planet because of that. the problem we see right now is this president has been undertut u cutting those underpinnings, undercutting thoseoal straurs and what it s going to do is exclude, it s going to drive the united states into that corner where donald trump is. that s the last place we want to be. if you there s going to be an organization out there. we don t get to see the table, a whole lot of things will be done, the united states won t even be in the room. malcolm, how dangerous is that? and also, is this something that the united states can pull back from? either after the mid-term elections, let s say one of the houses flipped or
every republican in congress and everything i ve seen from republican elected officials is to defend the integrity of bob mueller and the only people out toeing the president s line are either paid spokespeople for his legal team or former campaign surrogates like newt gingrich. reporter: yeah, they ve not directly responded on that why you see this big yawning gap between what republicans are going to have to face voters in 18 months and what their own campaigns are saying. you know, to ari eexst ari s po the white house could do it and rod rosenstein is the bullwork there. eventually, you can find they can always fire rod rosenstein and find someone who would not find charge. it s not impossible to think that clever lawyers here at the white house, there are many, in any administration there are, could figure out a way to do this. i take ari s legal point and the
matter. and perhaps the reason the congress woman has been ahead of the game on all this is because she s determined to be a bullwork against the president s agenda. when we fight against this president and we point out how dangerous that he is. for this society and for this country, we are fighting for the democracy. we are fighting for america. we re saying to those who say they re patriotic but they turn a mind eye to the destruction that he is about to cause this country. you are not nearly as patriotic as we are. and my mission and my goal is to make sure that he does not remain president of the united states of america. joining me now is congress woman maxine waters, democrat from california. congress woman, it was that clip that was played earlier today on another cable news program on fox, in which bill o reilly had a really disparaging thing, he apologized and proceeded to attack you again on the program