certainly with things like that being apart of the press coverage, you can certainly say that. when you look at going into the war zone and congressional delegation planning to go into a war zone, that s definitely not your average excursion out there. the president spoke if i can add to that too with the commander in chief, you are the commander. you have the responsibility to visit your forces. what you are talking about with pelosi, speaker of the house, you are talking about her responsibility for over site and appropriations and armed services and the kinds of things that are relegated to congress
television, spins up a tale about something, most of which is not true. we all start chasing our tails, right or the shiny object, and he comes back the next day and says, no, no, that is not what i meant. what is the point? and i was going to add president trump keeps him in his employ. the point is to win in public opinion, right, david, to try and keep the president from getting impeached. it s not legal. it has nothing to do with mueller. this is about public opinion, and he s trying to get your mind off or your eye off the ball. that s exactly what he s doing and we keep falling for it. well, we re talking about it right now. exactly. he s winning. if this isn t something the that trump wanted, they wouldn t keep putting rudy giuliani out. he s getting us to chase them,
indignation on both sides. i m just shocked she didn t think she d leave the country. why would you leave the country on a government shutdown and you re speaker of the house? i think the president s decision to disclose the speaker heading to a war zone was completely and utterly irresponsible in every way. why would she leave the country speaker of the government. didn t the president go to a war zone during a government shutdown? just check. it s absolutely no coincidence this happened the day after pelosi and what was also a nakedly political move to be honest scheduled the president reschedule the state of the union blaming the shutdown. and of course there s her opposition to the president s wall. i m not for a wall. i m not for any wall. so many questions about all of this. in his letter the president called pelosi s trip to the war zone during the shutdown a public relations event, which is interesting coming from the man who just last month as i said
bash today, the president has no knowledge of collusion with russia. the president has no knowledge of collusion with russia and going onto say, quote, neither he nor i can possibly know what everyone on the campaign was doing. and this. i can t possibly say no one had contact about something or in some way. so now he is conceding there could have been collusion by someone on the campaign. that is very different from what the president said way back in may of 2017. there s no collusion between me and my campaign and the russians. all of this disruption, all the chaos and, oh, yeah, the government is still shutdown. because of a manufactured crisis. because of the president s refusal to bend on the law. though more and more federal
workers are being forced to do their jobs anyway even though they have no idea when they will be paid, no idea. remember when the president said this? i alone can fix it. well, guess what? it s really true this time. the president can fix this. the question is will he? lots to talk about. frank bruiny, david axelrod, alice stuart, we ll dig into it next. and everywhere i go there s always something to remind me. of another place and time.