reagan years, the bush sr. and junior years saying if the mark is going your way, should be self-explanatory. what you have to pound is the improvement of jobs, the improvement of the gdp and the things that people will relate to. it s icing on the cake if markets are going well what do you think of that? yes. and president trump is going on make america great again. if it wasn t for bernie sanders and hillary clinton criticizing the economy, you would think there s a republican in the white house as opposed to barack obama. neil: one thing that floored me with the criticism that a lot of democrats have given the president about the run-up in the markets and fell on a deaf ears and then they started turning south, a lot of them were saying oh, my god, look what this is doing to the average person.
were the top experts in money laundering onto his team. he s not seeking records from deutsche bank because he wants to go after lower level individuals like roger stone. he s interested in potential criminal misconduct of the president or potentially his family as well. congressman lieu, thank you, as always, for your time. i hope to see you again. thank you, ari. all right. i want to look at something really big and howard fineman is here to help us walk through it. how do other administrations compare to this young trump administration when it comes to prosecutions? ronald reagan had 26, bush sr. just one when you look at top aide. clinton only two. george w. bush had more. obama left office with zero prosecutions. trump already has four. let s be clear, that is only ten months into his term. then take a look at this. these seven administrations in their first year, zero prosecutions of people in the administration. donald trump already has four top aides who have either
watch the president who will be boarding the plane and taking off for japan shortly. elise, there is a new book detailing sharp rebukes of the president by presidents bushes, 41 and 43. the elder bush saying during a 2016 interview that i don t like him. i don t know much about him but i know he s a blowhard and i m not too excited about him being a leader. how are republicans going to interpret those comments? i think that president bush is saying just stating the obvious and everyone knows it and republicans who aren t morally bankrupt should have long addressed the moral bankruptcy of donald trump. it s completely unsurprising that a man who is as warm and compassionate and who has dedicated his life to service the way that president bush has, that he does not approve of this current president s constant bullying. right. yeah. you re nodding, peter. i completely agree. and the great thing about bush
george bush senior is the last representative or at least a representative of the gop establishment and if his son was an offshoot of that to some degree, are we not going to see the likes of this type of republican president i think both parties you know, a lot of people in politics, and maybe on the left right now progressive people, are smart people, but they get this notion that somehow politics is a seesaw. and if trump goes way down, they ll go up. where do you see that in the polling? do you see any strength of nancy pelosi or chuck schumer anywhere? any sign of life? any sign of ideas? any sign of progressive push to do something like rebuild this country? they sit back and wait for the other guy to fall. they think they re on a seesaw and they re going to rise as trump goes down. i m telling you, that s not what s going to happen. there is something else that s going to come and replace them all probably. maybe someone on the hard left like sherrod brown, somebody is goi
with three of the happiest guys you re going to see who are happy because they re not in washington right now. looking tan. from listening to willie geist this morning, he was out there introducing them, in fact, yesterday. they really like each other. it s very clear there is a bond. the president s club has michael duffey who wrote about it s the real deal. it is the real deal. it was so amazing the clinton/bush friendship that developed even with bush sr. it s just it s kind of heartwarming to see it but they sure do look relieved, happy, relaxed and, in fact, there is a veep club. this poignant tweet from joe biden about that other veep,