charlie, elaborate, what do you mean by that? first of all, we re not in a constitutional crisis but sitting in the lobby waiting for the box office to open. we re on the brink. he s got a narrative he can sell to his base. he s got, you know, a strong if relatively unconventional support in the congress. he s got a right wing media operation he can turn to. and if you were the president at this point, what would be stopping you? the senate, you got some senators said mean things to you about you but most of them are leaving. the house is supine where it is not insane and that s where the actual action would have to begin. i don t, you know, i would you under estimate the forces that are still behind this president at your parool but he
can make a reason decision of what they are hearing and what this means. none of us knows what s in the memos. it s a risk to release them because of the classified nature of them. if you release one, you have to release both. you cannot let the american public sit and linger on what could be a totally false out of context report. so i am really frightened for the first time in this investigation. there was, you know, there it were a lot of members of congress i want to follow up, jill, with you and come back to you, charlie. a lot of members of congress during watergate, republicans that did carry water for president who backed him and ronald reagan backed and george h.w. bush and they said this watergate stuff is nonon-sense, let s wrap it up. was there anybody doing what devin nunes is doing? we reached a completely new level of insanity.
this means. none of us knows what s in the memos. it s a risk to release them because of the classified nature of them. if you release one, you have to release both. you cannot let the american public sit and linger on what could be a totally false out of context report. so i am really frightened for the first time in this investigation. there was, you know, there it were a lot of members of congress i want to follow up, jill, with you and come back to you, charlie. a lot of members of congress during watergate, republicans that did carry water for president who backed him and ronald reagan backed and george h.w. bush and they said this watergate stuff is nonnon-sense let s wrap it up. was there anybody doing what devin nunes is doing? we reached a completely new level of insanity. it s none of the kind of toting that is going on now where people are lying and putting
frankly, i don t want a document that will put us in danger in terms of the national security by releasing the methods of operation for the warrant. this is not a good thing for democracy, and if they are going to go ahead with one, all i m saying is you have to put it in context. it has to be fair. we should note they voted against a briefing from christopher wray at the fbi. there is a school of thought, charlie, that trump in someways even if he has proclivities towards strong man behavior, he s been stymied in a lot of ways. he s not depth enough the way nixon was who was experienced at it to get his way. does that comfort you at all? not at all because sooner or later he ll catch on that nobody is standing in his way. even before the episode that jill mentioned, which was the nixon affair, on the irvin
operation for the warrant. this is not a good thing for democracy, and if they are going to go ahead with one, all i m saying is you have to put it in context. it has to be fair. we should note they voted against a briefing from christopher wray at the fbi. there is a school of thought, charlie, that trump in someways even if he has proclivities towards strong man behavior, he s been stay ymied in a lot o ways. he s not depth enough the way nixon was who was experienced at it to get his way. does that comfort you at all? not at all because sooner or later he ll catch on that nobody is standing in his way. even before the episode that jill mentioned, which was the nixon affair, on the irvin committee, you had baker asking the most famous question of all time and you had republican