tonight, ducking the question of whether the white house has confidence in comey. but is all this just a distraction from the real issues facing the administration, and the country? i want to do something i don t normally do, i want to say a few things before we get started tonight. what happened over the weekend from the president of the united states is not politics as usual. it is not normal. and none of us in the media or at home should pretend that it is. this is at best a clumsy attempt to dangle a shiny object, change the subject from russia and throw us off the track. it s at worse an angry president trying to make someone else a scapegoat for the problems of his administration. former president obama, not the obama administration, no one in the administration, but the former president wiretapped him. we have no evidence of that, zero, and no one in the administration has provided any.
going away. i think we re responsible for allowing this stuff to go on without accountability. the shiny object, right? we get distracted by the chineny object. and many times we don t follow where the story leads. can i say one thing about the shiny object? the difference between him thinking 3 million people were at his inauguration. this shiny be object he put out there saturday is very sharp. very sharp. and it cuts. in terms of the shiny object, i mean, if you talk to pam brown, they aren t distracted by the shineny object. people at the washington post, people at the new york times, greg miller at the washington post, i don t think is distracted by the shiny object,