the law in our country. because you d be in jail. the times reports that trump has also repeatedly expressed disappointment in the fbi director christopher a. wray for failing to more aggressively investigate mrs. clinton, calling him weak, one of the people said. all right. this news comes after multiple reports over the last year and a half of the president wanting to fire both special counsel mueller and former attorney general jeff sessions. but here is the thing. in all of those reports, don mcgahn and jeff sessions and trump s lawyers stopped him from actually carrying out these actions. so what happens now that mcgahn and sessions and most of trump s lawyers are gone, and in their place is a new acting attorney general who seems much more willing to play by trump s rules? the president has been asking for someone like matthew whitaker to be in charge for ages. listen to this remark last year. you know, the sad est thing
criticized and impugned the mueller investigation and suggested that hillary clinton should be prosecuted. so it s really a worrisome situation going forward. and the last thing i ll say is i don t believe that donald trump answered any questions about obstruction of justice because his lawyers have been saying that that s off limits. right. that fits into his philosophy. he feels like mueller has no right to ask him about obstruction because he has every right to meddle in justice department investigation ands fire the fbi director for any reason. and that s just not consistent that s a philosophical disagreement. now, there have been presidents, the last few presidents, whose lawyers have argued that presidential privilege and executive authority goes farther than maybe some interpret it to be going. but this is a different issue. this is the president thinking he can t be obstructing justice because it s his justice. it s his justice department, it s his instructions. that s
the tendency of the president to use the armed forces as props as he has done along the southern border. he went to the marine barracks in washington a few days after he didn t go to arlington and used the marines as a background to show his love for the troops. i did a little research. the president s popularity in the armed forces is a bit above the national average. it s split right down the middle, 44% for, 43% against. he has good support among the enlisted force. he is well underwater with women, minorities and the officer corps. hasn t gone to visit them abroad. it s interesting the difference between the talk and the walk. jim clapper, let me ask you something. the idea of the president he once said, i can t wait to speak to mueller. want to do it under onlath. now he says, we re done with
they re not answering questions about obstruction in writing. what do you make of the shift? what s the relevance to the probe? i think as, you know assuming special counsel mueller is nearing the end of his investigation, and i think the reality of what it could connote or what it could represent, the implications of it for president trump, and i believe he s gotten cold feet now that we re getting close to the time where i think some action with the president is going to ensue. i m sure his lawyers have told him about his potential vulnerability here. i just think he has realized that. he would love, i know, to cut it off right now. that would be a nice luxury for anybody who s under investigation to have.
he has done along the southern border and in other situations as well. he went to the marine barracks here in washington a few days after he didn t go to arlington and again used the marines as a background to show his love for the troops. i did a little research. the president s popularity in the armed forces is a bit above the national average. it s split right down the middle, 44% for, 43% against. he has good support among the enlisted force, but he is well under water with women, minorities and the officer corps. he hasn t even gone to visit them abroad. it s interesting the difference between the talk and the walk. jim clapper, let me ask you something. the idea of the president he once said, i can t wait to speak to mueller. want to do it under oath. it ll be great. he said it plenty of times. now he says, yeah, we re done with this. i m not going to talk to him.