president will not change, angry outbursts and tweets that are responsible for the midterm shellacking are not going to end. they expect that anger only to grow as the investigation continues and as democrats gain subpoena power in the house, bunker mentality ahead. little boston for you. regardless of the impact on the broader republican party. here say colorful prediction that sums is it all up, captures the gop mood quite well. expect gridlock with a lot of constitutional crisis. sounds like fun. we re here at noon eastern. don t go anywhere. up next state of the union with jake tapper. marco rubio and jerry nadler are among his guests. stay with us. with two swappable batteries,
times , but also the bob woodward book that s about to come out. i take it east still upset about the very extraordinary funeral for john mccain. that s right. it s been a difficult week or so in the world of donald trump from his perspective. he feels and there have been other points where this has been the case. it s sort of this bunker mentality. he starting to lash out and go on these rants. still disturbing to hear this language from the president of the united states. . to think about the political impact of this, every time the president goes down one of these roads of threatening the independent of justice, there s
greater bunker mentality than in the past and now the op-ed and looking around saying, who can i trust? and for somebody that we think has boutds of paranoia at times a and bouts of anger and not able to keep it in check is scary. bob woodward writes in the book and describes that his aides think the president is lonely. they think he s paranoid. there is a quote where he says i think people are out to get me. i think in that case talking about robert mueller. that he is watching six to eight hours of television. when you have this and you have the op-ed and next tuesday you re going do see names attached and great detail in the woodward book i think it s going to add to the can i add one other thing to just sort of atmospheric observation that people who i talk to in and around trump world who are hopelessly optimistic no matter what
the white house is the legal team all the lawyers around the president, do they recognize this? when he tweets something like this, it s in a different category, then what happens? a couple things, there s not all the lawyers around the president, there is like there, that s been part of the problem, within the white house, many of them are in bunker mentality and you won t hear them say this is particularly different. privately a number will acknowledge this is problematic, they wish he wouldn t do this. as my colleague at the times make schmidt and i reported, mueller is already looking at trump s tweets in the context as to whether they could comprise an obstruction of justice case. i agree with what jeffrey toobin said. we spend a lot of time on faux four-alarm fires, this is a real one. it s a shocking thing for a president to have said. if president obama said you can imagine how quickly people would
problem. people feel like corruption and all this rancor that we see here in washington, d.c. is poisonous for both. we have competing narratives now going on as to what the investigation should be about. if you look back in the clinton days or the nixon days when impeachment was being talked about, you didn t have this kind of really big bunker mentality that you see here where the other side, the folks the president who is under attack has really an alternative narrative about what the corruption is and what s being investigated. there is a lot of distrust on both sides about this process. jen, on the issue of impeachment, the irony, of course, the gop-led impeachment of bill clinton backfired, in effect, politically on them, made bill clinton more popular, arguably. do the democrats risk the same if let s say they do win back the house going forward. do they risk the same leading