Because he has individuals like mcconnell and others who are on the ballot coming up next year who have a cantankerous base behind them in their respective states and districts reminding him that you are to stay appropriately in line at all times, no matter what the president tweets, no matter what the president says, you know your place and you know the response. and so in light of the president s, you know, comments yesterday with george stephanopoulos, that is not the response that should be coming from the majority leader of the senate nor one of the leaders of the republican party. but that s the best you re going to get. and alexia, i have something to play for you. it occurred in this studio in the chair michael currently occupies. last night this is former republican and former republican member of congress david jolly. the eyes of the nation tonight must look to nancy
The republican senators who are all lying about the fact that there s no time for an fbi investigation. the news media s job now is to penetrate and expose that lie. that is a lie. and any member of the news media who accepts that lie unchallenged by any republican member of the senate is complicit in that lie. the chairman of the senate judiciary committee is on his way to committing a crime against the truth in his committee. and i m no longer sure that chuck grassly even knows that. i m no longer sure chuck grassly remembers any word he said, and on that committee chuck congressly was reasonable if cantankerous, but i never doubted chuck grassly s integrity and his work on the finance committee at that time.
Cantankerous, but i never doubted chuck grassly s integrity and his work on the finance committee at that time. but i am sorry to say chuck grassly has stayed in the senate way too long. listen. listen to this. listen to the very first words that chuck grassly, the chairman of the judiciary committee spoke today when he was asked why he opposed an fbi investigation this time. just so you guys and gals all understand maybe i better say men and women. yes, senator grassly, it s 2018. we call them women now. joining our discussion now is christine, the executive vice president of the leadership conference. and lisa graves, a former chief
Age of 81. a big month for stocks in august. nasdaq composite leading the gain of 5.1% for the month. s&p 500 rose as well both setting all-time highs. i m marianne rafferty. now back to the ingraham angle. laura: friday and you know what that means. ryan gosling s new neil armstrong pic is setting off a controversy and a boycott is on the way. more on that and the political edge of aretha franklin s funeral. we re joined by fox news contributor raymond arroyo. ryan gosling, affable and nice guy. he s got an interesting bio-pic. astronaut. how could this be cantankerous
On friday, what do you make of that? i don t know what to make of that. i could speculate about all kinds of things that it might be but, i think we will probably know sometime in the near future what was going on on friday but i really don t know. melissa: the prosecution, did they present a good case? i think they dated, and they did so in the face of a very difficult and i would suggest cantankerous district judge. this story seems to be one of greed assisted by an underlayment. i think the jury in white-collar cases gets that and it wouldn t surprise me if the jury decides independent of all this other stuff that swirling around and the impact that it might have insofar as the mueller investigation is concerned, it sounds like this investigation independently against paul manafort had merit. melissa: they had that