than it matters to anybody else. jonathan, what does it say to you that republicans told trump and the white house, we cannot carry this one for you? it s very important moment because it could be a prelude. now, i wouldn t bet on republicans turning on him because we ve seen so much that has not led them to do so, and, you know, we have trump fatigue but we also have trump amnesia and all of us, i think, have forgotten all the times that republicans failed the character test of their generation and they will again before this is done, but this suggested that there s a possibility that the dam could break and, you know, you have to develop some muscle memory of standing up to the president and it might be possible for them to do it in a more significant way a little bit down the road. jonathan alter, tim o brien, thank you, both, for joining us tonight. when we come back, the clear and present danger of mark esperanto. government by and for all the people -
pp tape. george soros. george soros. they ll try, and matt gaetz and some of these other clowns will try, but i think instead they re moving toward what seems to be a scapegoat strategy. so they re going to pick some scapegoat, it could be giuliani, and pile on that person, and see if that person can take some of the heat off of the president. i don t think that s going to work for them, but you can get they ll try something like that. they re not going to just abandon the president en masse. they re going to have certain other kind of short-term approaches to get by with their constituents. but they re all failing a character test. right now mitt romney and a couple of others are passing it. some people called it the grandchildren test. what do you tell your grandchildren years from now about where you stood at this time in american history. and you just sort of wonder why
like he s pretty lonely out there. all republicans faced a character test over the last couple of years and almost all of them have failed it. it s interesting that a lot of people like susan, who are not in elective office, they passed the character test. george will, you know, he resigned from the republican party. right. so does he pass now then, jonathan? is that what you re saying? does he pass that character test? quickly. yes, he does. amash passes the test, but there are very, very few others. bill weld has passed the test. he s going to challenge president trump in the republican primaries. he s not expected to do that well. right. because you have a lot of republicans, they ve basically mortgaged all of their principles, the things they believed in, fiscal responsibility, free trade, i could go right down the list, they ve sacrificed all of them, put their integrity in a blind trust to follow this man, trump, over the cliff. it s very, very discouraging and i think it
they are. maybe that s just who bill barr is. i did write in 2016 that i thought that donald trump was go took be a character test for the republican party and sadly almost the entire party has failed that test. and your seeing bull barr fail. while flynn was co cooperatinging with mueller, he said to keep the pressure on he even sent an eagle and a flag 50 gifts the day barr was confirmed. why would he do that? you keep wanting understand able to get inside theheads of these folks. i can t begin to get. icide their heads. but theactions are extraordinar. they speak to a willingness to use the traditions of american
democrats will control 27 attorney general seat which is mean they can file lawsuits if they work together against this administrati administration. when you think across the board at the different variables that can hurt the president, you can see him acting out. will that be acting out via twitter. this tweet about little adam schiff and misspelling. you have to love the response. pretty quick. it was a good response. the main thing is the president of the united states is once again acting like an 11-year-old boy. kind of a dumb bully on the playground with dumb jokes who nobody respects even inside his own party even though they have to pretend to. we ve got two years to put up with this. the question for the rest of us is how do we respond to him. not what does he do because we know what he s going to do. it s how do we respond to him. that s the character test that