Cal or dental procedures. Im still going for my best. And for eliquis. Ask your doctor about eliquis. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live from washington every sunday. Tonight, Spring Cleaning in the Trump Administration. Rex tillerson gone. Andrew mccabe, gone. Is the Special Counsel far behind him . And what about other key members of the Trump Administration . Senator chris van haul enjoins me live to talk about what all of this means as the Foreign Policy obstacles mount for the United States. Plus, democrats pull off a serious upset in trump country. New polling just out today shows why pennsylvania could be just
the beginning. But we start with a restive weekend in the white house. That is an understatement. Andrew mccabe fired hours short of his retirement, and he kept his receipts. Reportedly handing over notes on the president to the Special Counsel. The Special Counsel subpoenaed the Trump Organization as the president s lawyer wondered aloud whether isnt it tim
russia. i have nothing to do with russia. everybody knows it. that was a democrat hoax. described investigators as 13 hardened democrats. some big crooked hillary supporters, and zero republicans. zero republicans except for the two men in charge of the whole probe, one of them appointed by trump. my next guest says this kind of misleading material is the whole point. tony schwartz co-authored the art of the deal and says trump is using the attacks not by appealing to truth or logic, but by appealing to voter fantasies. it s describing in the art of the deal. the final key to the way i promote is bravado. i play to people s fantasies, i call it truthful hyperbole. mr. schwartz arguing that trump s approach works because of a phenomena known as confirmation bias. i m joined by tony schwartz, who is also the author of the way we re working isn t working and
lawyer in the russian investigation, john dowd quitting today. dowd former marine core captain, main contact with mueller in the russia investigation. he had pressed the president to lay off attacking mueller personally of course it worked for a while but as we saw this week the president completely disregarding that. personally attacking mueller by name for the first time tweet the mueller probe should never have been started there was no collusion and no crime. and why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans, that along with retweeting criticism saying there should be no special counsel coming from a professor. ryan nobles outfront right now at the white house. you talk about the legal team perhaps the most important thing for this president right now in the future of his presidency, the guy in charge, gone, what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, that s right, erin. this story shouldn t get lost in all this news abou
friday night ouster of former deputy director of the fbi andrew mccabe for leaking and lying, shows the probe of the president is a legitimate and should end. joe digenova told tucker carlson mccabe and fbi officials like peter strzok and lisa page were part of a plot working to get hillary clinton off the hook and framing the president. all mueller is looking at his collusion, if you have an innocent client, act like it. a group of fbi and de og pe. democrats continue to try to fan the flames and claim the president will fire mueller, the white house lawyer denied it though the president mentioned mueller in a tweet over the weekend, declaring why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters n0 republicans. another democrat added, does anyone think this is fair. and yet there is no collusion.
of his outside lawyers have a very different view how this is going to be approached. i m told we ll have more reporting on that in about 60 seconds. sam stein, i want to show an example of the president tweeting something this weekend and an instant fact checking of him that was kind of breath taking to read. first from the president s twitter feed, why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans? you ve got to admire the capitalization another dem recently added does anyone think this is fair? and yet there is no collusion. and then from glenn kessler. the way trump tweets about how investigators can t be trusted because they donated to the democrats, it s easy to forget he donated to hillary clinton in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009.