warned everybody who was traveling with him that russians monitored all the hotel rooms, so they should be aware of what is going. they had no privacy in these rooms. he seemed very prepared for the first presser coming out of the this meeting that he had with comey, which may have been actually been comey s undoing unvoluntary in the sense that comey thought he was doing a favor but, a, wanting to give him this information so the president would not be in a compromising situation, but also didn t want to embarrass him. of course the president s reaction was he viewed this as a form of blackmail. the washington post describes donald trump as ac did
it off and suggested nothing came of that. but do you know that nothing came of that? i have no idea. what i do know is the dossier is at least leading in a direction that is that was accurate. they were saying that things were going on in moscow. shiller says nothing came of it. well, even if that is the case, we do know that russia was attempting to compromise trump in 2013. we also know that even in the election process, 2016, that trump was reaching out trying to do a deal in moscow. again, that s a compromising situation. now, whether there was a compromise, we don t know. but what we do know is that this president has never held russia accountable, accountable for taking over crimea and for the war and the rest of it in the ukraine area. we now know in cnn s exclusive reporting, stephen miller has been questioned about the special counsel s investigators, a top policy adviser to the president.
administration who are supported by both sides of the aisle. the secretary of veterans affairs. jim mattis. there are people in there that are respected by everyone in washington, d.c. with the exception of steve bannon. so let me ask you, what if that happens? what if there s a good fbi director appointed to replace comey? two answers to that question. number one, we ve already seen with mr. rosenstein that sometimes when you select somebody that has been a long time career official but you put them in a politically appointed situation where they owe their job to the president of the united states, they can be put in a compromising situation. the situation is untenable because they re essentially leading investigations into their boss and it becomes unworkable. everyone sitting up here trying with all due respect to rosenstein, if he knowingly submitted this memo for the purposes of carrying out a ir fooing of jim comey he s in the wrong too. it s also a wrong on his part. we re
is intolerable to the president and the president does everything he can to stop it. david, the former deputy attorney general under george h.w. bush told buzz fooeed news that the firing was a quote, sham. what do you think of this? well, you know, one would always like to believe the president of the united states and the white house team are telling us the truth. and i think that what we re finding in this situation, jake, is this president and his team have been so fast and loose with the truth and we ve had so many instances when untruths, lies have come out of the white house, that even before this happened, the poll found that only 35% of americans think they can trust donald trump. 60% think they do not think he s honest and that makes it very hard to persuade people in a case that looks highly suspicious. you know, having gone through and been many the white house for the during the saturday
he handled it badly and i think he did impact on the election. there are a lot of people who are mad about that but i think most democrats are looking at the situation that and most americans that we face now which is the real intimation that there was something going on between the russians perhaps and the and the trump campaign and certainly there s a conclusion that the russians invaded our election and impacted or tried to impact on our election and people want answers and even if they thought comey was ham handed in his handling of the clinton matter most people saw him as a person of integrity and in any case he seemed independent enough to carry on this investigation and now this looked very much as david described it as an attempt to short circuit this investigation. you know, i heard kim say it s going to go on and so on and i m sure it will go on but the person that leads that investigation is important and the public s ability to believe in that person and their