we have 18 months. 18 more months having a conversation about this. i was watching you. you were chuckling a little bit as ali was making her report. maybe mccarthy doth protest too much. they are there is so many different personalities that emerge in any given moment based on what donald trump has done and which reporter is in front of them. you just can t keep up. it is laughable. they could so easily stop this. could they really? how? all they do is go get in front of a microphone and say exactly what mccall said. we re done. we can t do anymore of this. donald trump, we re done. in fact, if you want to run, that s your prerogative, but we re moving on and the organs
peter baker is chief white house correspondent for the new york times. michael steele, former chair of the rnc, both are msnbc political analysts. i guess the key question, ali, do republicans really want to move away from trump? there is arguably evidence to the contrary in their comments. what are you hearing and seeing in orlando? reporter: depends who you ask, chris. especially when my colleague scott long and i had that conversation with chairman mccall, one member who is really focused on serious and sober investigations as the chairman of his committee on foreign relations going into things like the afghanistan withdraw, he s focused there. you heard in the conversation, i asked him about the split screen about what republicans are trying to do with their majority in congress, versus what is happening out on the campaign trail and now potentially in the manhattan s d.a. s office.
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which is, what are these documents? and i can say as a reporter who covered the hillary clinton classified documents email issue, that is an important distinction. and the problem is that given that we don t have the answer to that, the politics are kind of going in a direction here where a lot of the republicans, unlike mccall, are taking this to an extreme, right? saying, oh, this must have had to do with his profiteering off of his family business. so that s the risk that they re taking here, is that they are cooperating, so they re not saying anything, but, for instance, just to remind everyone how that document scandal ended with hillary clinton s e-mails, which was, a number of the classified markings were simply e-mails that had been retromarked as classified, or issues like newspaper articles, things that her aides had forgotten to take the c off of. so in the end, he stayed quiet, but paid the price politically.
trump. they re not attack the fbi. they are cooperating. they said it was a voluntary search of the home there. but, of course, you have democrats acknowledging, as durbin did, they ve certainly lost the high ground. the president has certainly lost the high ground here. does the white house have a vision of how it ends and when it ends. a whole host of decisions hang in the balance, including the possibility that biden might announce for 2024. it seems that they re balancing their desire to cooperate with this investigation with the politics of it. and the optics of it, which are not going in a great direction here. the latest poll from abc is both showing 64% of the american people believe do believe that he handled it inappropriately. but then again, a plurality thinks that the situation with donald trump is far worse. so that s where we are, not going in a good direction. but at the same time, it s important to ask these questions like chairman mccall is asking,