there. welcome back to hardball. attempting to clean up yesterday s press conference. first he admitted that he made a mistake and then he said something totally dishonest that all he did was forget to use the word not. let s bring in the round table. glad to have you all here. let me ask you dana, about the, what is this ridiculous mickey mouse little spin number he did. nobody thinks it was a missed word. the whole theme was that putin is swell, i love the guy. he didn t do anything wrong. if you miss a word, you correct it on the spot or at the very least when you are told about it a couple of minutes later. that picture of trump sitting there reading this forcibly, the only thing missing is john kelly under the table with the cattle
with president trump units made a lot of news already. additional son this morning the president trump talking about the feuds with lawmakers and when he tweaked in talks about in the purity is never treated mitch mcconnell or rex are calling them a beleaguered ag. he s done all those things. he thinks it s part of moving the ball forward and sometimes it helps to be honest with you. i think sometimes that helps. sometimes it gets people to do what they re supposed to be doing. you know, that s the way it is. i just want what s right. for the most part they want what is right, too. i would just say this. i want to get the ball moving forward. it s like a cattle prod may be. focus on the right places to get them moving in a little motivation. that s up for debate as to whether this is the right
think the president will get points for talking about bipartisanship here. he will get points for using the cattle prod. i think from both sides of the aisle, that plays well. but at some point here, you know, voters are going to start feeling this on their pocketbook and ask the question the exact question you are. as the year winds down and those bills wind down, open enrollment period. obamacare created a lot of disruption in the marketplace. we ll see what happens next. up next, inside the iran nuclear deal. putting pressure on congress and making key u.s. allies in europe angry. first, saturday night live s verse of the man in the west wing and the so-called war on christmas. i need to you check the cups, okay. do they say happy holidays or do they say merry christmas? sir, it s october. they wouldn t have christmas themed cups yet. they would if they respect the cups. they would say merry christmas
going. tantrum as governance. and even the president s close friend, he s better than this. dan, you called it governing by cattle prod. what is happening? it feels like we re in another level of republican concern about the president. well, you know, i think you could argue it s another level. i think it s a continuing level. i think this comes and goes. there are moments when something happens and i think you have to give senator corker the responsibility for ratcheting it up this week for what happened a week ago today in the tweets. what we ve seen from the president both on the health care and on the iran agreement, we ve seen this effort of him clearly frustrated in action. clearly wanting to send a signal to his base that he is trying to do the things he said he would do. but without a clear solution or a path to get to where he wants to get to. so he throw its to the congress. and says you all fix it.
question of collusion, if it happened, if he can t get anybody to talk to him? well under oath, i mean. is anybody in the administration going to participate in this investigation,r are they all going to stonewall to use your word? i can t speak for the special counsel, but from what i understand, a special counsel has some tools that are not at our disposal to get to the bottom of this. and i think we will just have to watch and see that play out. maybe it s a cattle prod. thank you very much, senator martin heinrich of new mexico. i m joid by u.s. congresswoman jackie speier of california, a member of the house intellence committee, and also the washington post s phillip bump. jeff sessions refused to say today whether comey s handling of the russia investigation had anything to do with his firing. watch. so do you concur with the president that he was going to fire comey regardless of recommendation because the problem was the russian investigation? senator feinstein