meesh chum, meachum, as you say, mitch mcconnell s actions are a good starter, pretty lousy finisher. in the end people will look back in this period of history in the senate as a shabby senate with a short-sided selfish cynical majority leader who compared more about his political party and own political ambitions than the country itself. yes, i said that. than the country itself. read history. doesn t it seem fairly obvious that that s exactly what mitch mcconnell has done? well, senator mcconnell has become, if you are looking for a partisan warrior in chief, if you re looking for an archetype of a hugely effective party leader in a party leadership position in the senate i was trying to think of arguably a more effective one. i suppose the legend of lyndon johnson in the 50s, but imagine
bingo. obviously, he took on blumenthal by name, about his vietnam war history in the past, that tripped him up in his senate election. but he seems to be holding someone out. and i think he even suggested, he might wait to reveal it in a book some day, brooke. tune in. i can hear dana say, tune into the next episode. tune in, but i think, david, you nailed it in that that was sort of a classic, trumpian move in that he throws a conspiracy theory out there and something that he thinks that reporters a challenge that reporters can t refuse to or can t refuse to take, which is to go after the red bouncing ball over here, instead of focusing on what is at hand, which is the nomination of the swing vote on the supreme court of the united states. chum in the water. dauvid and dana, with thank you. i m staying focused. coming up, we re digging into the specifics on what exactly fbi agents are doing right this
that s one of the first times that someone has mused chum by the way. it s breakfast. despite all of that, despite trying to create a new spectacle, paul, it also sounds, if you listen to the president on geraldo s radio show yesterday, that even he does not know what he will reveal and what will happen on thursday. let me play this moment for you. will you fire rod rosenstein based on i don t want to comment on it. i don t want to comment on it until i ve gotten all the facts. i haven t gotten all the facts, but certainly it s being looked at in terms of what took place, if anything took place, and i will make a determination sometime later, but i don t have the facts. paul. i mean, first of all, the news is the president isn t going to comment until he gets all the facts. that is a departure, but what do you think given if there are any clues hidden in there?
because the president who has a reputation for you re fired, as you say, really likes to do it at a distance. he prefers attacking on twitter than in person, but what he really loves as a veteran of reality tv is to organize the media display and he, i believe, is trying to consciously create a split screen on thursday. there is the kavanaugh hearing on one side of why you are screen, the other is rosenstein going up to kiss the ring and possibly get his head lopped off professionally at the white house. that s the kind of optics this president understands and the kind he likes. that was the washington post reporting that this was designed to throw the media off the scent. here is the reporting. over the weekend at two of his favorite haunts his private golf club in bedminster, new jersey and trump tower in manhattan, the president mused about wanting to inject new chum into the news cycle to deflect the spotlight from kavanaugh according to a former official in frequent touch with
ago? this is clearly something that donald trump himself drummed up in a back corner in tweeting from his bed early one morning. the reason why what happens here in this interfew a interview that brian stelter pointed out, the interview continues and i know by doing so it might make this investigation longer. yeah, it did. and i think that when sekulow was doing was throw a little dust up in the air, chum the waters. specifically trying to throw dust on this issue because it gets to obstruction of justice which also mueller is talking to michael cohen about because that s where he s going to really get hung up. obstruction of justice is what they are worried about. this isn t true. this is a claim that the president and his attorneys are making up and trotting his attorney out there to say on national television and it s not