you had joyce vance up on mcquade, james dean. this constant drum beat. interesting poll, the new york times with a fascinating poll. 59% of americans believe a sitting president should be able to be charged criminally but 60% oppose congress beginning to impeachment process. i think they look at those things very different. there s this word of impeachment as you are undoing, and criminality is something different and let the judicial process take place. that s make sense to me. they should be held accountable for that crime, but you re right. impeachment does feel like because it has such political connotations to it, i can see that argument of people saying, wait, i voted for this guy. certainly the president would play that card if democrats end up going down that path. i think the president is one of those unique politicians where a lot of the stuff talked about at the table has already been baked into the bread of him as a person and president. criminal stuff is going t
state of the union mode six months prior to the election. i agree. next topic, bye-bye sarah. press secretary sarah sanders is leaving the white house and a federal agency recommends the top trump adviser kellyanne conway be removed from service. anthony, i ll start with you. obviously you are very close to this. sarah has that job as a result of a kerfuffel with reince prieb us about you being hired. i ve never met sarah. well, shaun s retirement. the players change so often. i m sorry. i find she has destroyed this institution in so many ways. ranging from basically press briefings are a thing of the past, which is frightening. there were 10,000 lies not once did she correct. she was a liar herself in the most hideous way as far as james comey not having allegiance from other fbi agents. to me she has lowered the bar.
leaving. thank you so much, mr. president. it s truly an honor. i ll ask the president s former communications director, the mooch, who if anybody can replace her. plus, the great prep. senator amy klobuchar here in studio as she gets ready for the first democratic primary debates. we ll do some prep with her right here. and a tweet from my pal. donald trump watched our show last week, wasn t too happy. ripped into my shoe biz and says we were never friends. i miss you, buddy. happy birthday. you re a spectacular guy. you re doing great on television. thank you, mr. president. there s a lot to cover tonight. this is saturday night politics. we have got a great with us tonight but before we get to
not this donald trump. that s my prediction, he ll be back. secondarily, that is him. so at the end of the day we can debate it. the appropriateness of it, the inappropriateness of it. but the surgeon general s warning label is on the president. it s right there in the front. he s got some great strengths, some stuff he says sometimes off-the-cuff perhaps inappropriate. but at the end of the day that is him. so the litigation in the 507 days of the election will be about do they want to tee up him. i think there s going to be one more thing for nancy pelosi as she builds what i ve suggested the trump criminal investigation strategy. but that aside, i don t think that ll change the vote one way or another. clearly it was deliberate to say you know what, we re going to get outside our fox news bubble, open up a little bit. we need to expand our base but right off the bat not
can t get involved in that stuff. and what penalty does mitch mcconnell pay if the senate actually does this, just the wrath of the president? i was going to take this segment in a different direction, the fact he s sitting with stephanopoulos, i believe that trump is going to do a pivot forward. he is the ultimate transactionallest, survivalist and to me if all of a sudden to your point just walking things back, if all of a sudden he comes out with some health care thing, some big opioid thing, that we saw it last week when he just gave a normal speech and was presidential. so credi think he s going to ha the potential he did it thursday night with kim kardashian. that is the whole appeal to the african-american vote in the country. so he s 100% going to do that.