tip o neil used to say the walls have ears. the president now knows as i speak this guy, his so-called top staffer, is out telling people he s got dirt on the boss and the boss can t fire him. trump whatever else you think of him is a street fighter. he now knows this guy is in the street ready to fight him. it s just a matter of time before he gets rid of this guy and makes him pay for that line. your thoughts. it s hard to explain anything mulvaney has done over the last 72 hours, but it shows there s no really impeachment defense here. the only constant, chris, is that this white house has no functional white house chief of staff. i was one of john kelly s toughest critics, but kelly was right when he said if you hire a yes man as my successor you will be impeached. he hired mulvaney and he has been impeached. any competent white house chief of staff hearing about this so-called drug deal, you know, this shakedown of ukraine would have walked into the oval office, closed the door
ork administration to say we ve got to come up with sleaze because i can t sit in front of somebody like jeff sessions when the president can t fire him but attacks on twitter. i can t sit in front of somebody and say maybe you should go. politics here, fine. this is cowardice. it s unbelievable. chris cillizza, george kent, the testimony we got today, isn t the only damning testimony we ve received in recent days. i want you to listen to the president s allies, senator lindsey graham, his reaction to the u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon sondland s reversal on whether or not there was a quid pro quo. listen to this. why did sondland change his testimony? did he talk to schiff, schiff staffers? he kept saying sonderland. it s sondland. that s his name. this is a political appointee
director comey before the committee a number of times. i think the republicans again are using this in an effort to distract attention away from the very serious on going mueller investigation. what we should be doing on friday instead is taking up legislation to protect the special counsel and be sure that president can t fire him without cause and that we protect the integrity of the investigation. let me talk to you about government funding. as you know, house leadership sources are saying there is an agreement now to push this thing back two weeks. friday before christmas is the new deadline. they have been reporting that house and senate democrats have been sniping over the issue of what the stalemate on, the president s border wall. do you think you ll be able to come to an agreement with your colleagues in the senate about how much money should go to the border wall and how much money do you think should to be able to keep the government open and move forward through the holid
nothing embarrassing about what his dad said. he was quoting peter strzok. meanwhile, peter strzok in terms of whether bias got him fired, the president can t fire him. he can fire comey and mccabe. he couldn t fire him. it was the inspector general report that revealed he had a willingness to take official action to hurt president trump s electoral prospects. particularly in the text messages they sent to page where he said, quote, we will stop trump from being president. that s the ig report. a man appoint by barack obama. the thing about that particular passage and we heard mr. strzok himself say it he said i don t remember sending that. but, he does remember. brian: that s convenient. he did have some bias. it never seepsd into his work at the fbi. alan dershowitz, the harvard professor says the firing shows that rod rosenstein actually should be recused but he s not. whether there s the reality of interference or the perception of a thumb on
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