attention. you called the sum total of today s developments, where we stand a slow motion saturday night massacre. why? because he s purging one person after another. trump is giving away his motive, which is really i think obstruction. he got rid of comey because comey was doing the russia investigation. and today he pushed out north carolina camccabe and clearly going after rosenstein now. he want to cleary get rid of anyone involved with the prosecution. to me it s prima facie. he may not have the knowledge to realize sometimes it s the career civil servants are replaced by career civil servants and lawyers by lawyers and prosecution by prosecution. at the same time he makes it personal. he wants to decapitate, i suppose, the deep state. he s going for both.
you said something on your broadcast tonight that got our attention. you called the sum total of today s developments, where we stand a slow motion saturday night massacre. why? because he s purging one person after another. trump is giving away his motive, which is really i think obstruction. he got rid of comey because comey was doing the russia investigation. and today he pushed out north carolina mccabe and clearly going after rosenstein now. he want to cleary get rid of anyone involved with the prosecution. to me it s prima facie. he may not have the knowledge to realize sometimes it s the career civil servants are replaced by career civil servants and lawyers by lawyers and prosecution by prosecution. at the same time he makes it personal. he wants to decapitate, i suppose, the deep state. he s going for both. you re a speechwriter.
led to a narrow partisan vote which everyone remembers on impeachment. starr was famous for his very public record. a constant extreme of leaks which led to his own aides being indicted. in contrast to the bob mueller investigation. and then ken starr was remembered for publicly lashing out at critics. i ve chosen until now not to reply. but i think in terms of basic fairness, that comes to an end. it is not right and it s not fair to attack and hound the career civil servants. for my part, i ve learned that it goes with the independent counsel territory. it s not right and it s been fair. that was ken starr defending the d.o.j. and fbi civil servants on his case. tonight i can tell you, ken starr is reversing himself. he is attack bob mueller s
he s clearly taking them very seriously. to michael s point, though, samantha, it s not the first time that we have heard something like this. we have heard someone try to undermine an investigation. is the public perception, though, different this time around in this climate? i think that donald trump jr. s statements are both inaccurate and dangerous. so the answer to your question is yes. they re inaccurate because they perhaps purposefully misrepresent the majority of u.s. government employees. both asha and myself, we re career civil servants. we served under republicans, we served under democrats. we were just there to do our job. his statements are also dangerous, because frankly they re taking a page right out of vladimir putin s playbook. the intelligence community has assessed with high confidence that russia directed an influence and messaging campaign to sew divisions here at home. and there is bipartisan consensus this has come up at multiple congressional hearings, that
cooperating, this is an argument like many thingsdoing, including the tax bill, is more about speaking to a narrow base than expanding that base. but he says that ron makes a fair point, rebecca. when donald trump jr. says there are people at the highest level of government that don t want to let america be america. those are that s a very, very strange and powerful indictment of people at the highest level of the federal government. it is. and it s also an insult to the civil servants working in government, in the intelligence community and otherwise, who are sacrificing for this country, who are in these jobs, oftentimes they re nonpartisan jobs, they re career civil servants, working on behalf of the u.s. government. their whole job is to try to help the country. so it s sort of an insult to hear that from the president s son if you are one of those people working at the state department, working at treasury, who has been there for multiple