article 2 would have allowed me to fire him. i wasn t going to fire you know why? i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. so president can t obstruct justice? a president can run the country. and that s what happened, george. i run the country and i run it well. when the president does it, it is not illegal? i m just saying a president under article 2 is very strong. read it. also new today, the trump re-election campaign is cutting ties with some of its own pollsters. that after internal polling was leaked. nbc news obtained new details of that march polling. it shows the president trailing biden in 11 crucial states. separately a new fox news poll released today shows five democratic candidates ahead of the president, some within the margin of error, but biden is ahead by 10 percentage points. the new york times is standing by its reporting that officials from the administration and pentagon did not fully brief the president a
and life or death decisions about young americans. and i don t care whether are you the biggest trump supporter or hater, you just can t trust a word that this man says. . [ applause ] so i could go on and on but maybe that says enough. congressman, thanks let me ask you about something you said if 2016 during the campaign then. you compared president trump s rise to that of adolph hitler s rise. do you still stand by that comparison? what i was talking about is the fact that tyrants can get elected and i think we all learned that in 2016. right? that s why elections matter. are there any rhetorical let s say gashed rails for your campaign? anywhere you will not go? some people think a hitler reference would be too far. well, of course, you have to be careful about what you say.
his own thiefdome. why should that we consider that meaningful like, in the end who cares whether his agency is embarrassed? doesn t our right to have confidence in our government override those concerns? shouldn t it override those concerns? you are exactly right. in 2003, i was in the united states senate. i was responsible for helping get the reauthorization of the patriot act done. and i recall jim comey then, the deputy attorney general, bob mueller, the director of o the fbi giving assurance to congress as we expanded their power under the patriot act and we expanded the rules of the fisa courtd and its application, giving assurances that it would not be utilized against american citizens.ri and if it was, it would be because they had absolute evidence of that citizen s work with an agent of a foreign power. that s not what appears to have happened. are we entitled to have answers? we are and we shouldn t care whether or not and i know chris wray, we were u.s. attorneys at
in 2003, i was in the united states senate. i was responsible for helping get the reauthorization of the patriot act done. and i recall jim comey then, the deputy attorney general, bob mueller, the director of the fbi giving assurance to congress as we expanded their power under the patriot act and we expanded the rules of the fisa court and its application giving assurances that it would not be utilized against american citizens. and if it was, it would be because they had salute evidencsaluteevidence of that cs work with an agent of a foreign power. that s not what appears to have happened. are we entitled to have answers? we are and we shouldn t care whether or not and i know chris wray, we were u.s. attorneys at the same time, and i have a lot of respect, but with all due respect, our needs to know is greater than any need to not be
i don t know right now if neither side is ever allowed to break ranks or negotiation with the other side. it is considered taboo to create the gang of eight, so to speak, again. i don t know where we move forward from this. both sides are issuing stances that are nonstarters for the other side. i ll say as far as the optics of the state of the union, most people don t care whether or not the president gives the state of the union. they just want the government to actually govern. it s been closed down for a month. people are missing pay checks. there s kids that literally are struggling to get food because their parents don t even have the money to pay for it. that is what we should be focusing on and whether or not there s security to have the state of the union. i just don t think that touches most people s lives on a day to day basis. dana: the president is the chief executive officer of the united states of america and this government. we ve been showing reports. food banks openi