chaos and confusion, that might have worked in his real estate empire, but that only works for so long here in washington before people just start to, you know, cut their losses and start to really distance themselves from the president. david, could this cost him health care, or is health care, as the president is clearly betting, has been too many years of a promise by too many republicans for them to let whatever ire they may have at him to get in the way. i do think it could cost over parts of his agenda down the line. right now senate republicans have to figure out how to get a bill out of their chamber. so there are bigger things at play here. but if he continues to jawbone sessions, if he moved to fire sessions, he would have a world of hurt. i talked to chuck rasly today. he said i don t want to have to deal with any more nominations. i want to deal with items on trump s agenda. they don t want this and it would cause a big problem. what is the big line on
thoughts without much thought being put into them. he sends out these tweets. there is no strategic plan behind it. and in this case what he doesn t understand is washington and he certainly doesn t understand the loyalty in the bonds forged in the united states senate. when you serve there, you will often see them take care of each other, cover for each other because they have a bond that a lot of people don t have. david, it is not just them, right? it is not just politicians on capitol hill. there is sort of what trump would call, oh, hey, the mainstream kbrgop and his base. his base has been critical too. breitbart has been very critical of these decisions, the way he s been handling sessions. were the president s tweets today about trance gender troops in the military maybe an attempt to try to aswag his base and
the president is demonstrating weakness by his handling of sessions? absolutely. i don t fully understand why the president has, you know, said what he said. but i think jeff deserves, you know, better treatment. i know of no professional reason for jeff to step down. i know of no professional. i ve heard no one complain of how he s conducting himself in the office. i wish it would stop. outfront now, mark preston, nia-malika henderson and david druker. mark, let me start with you. does it seem like the president was caught flat footed by the massive republican backlash to these attacks on sessions and backlash on capitol hill. no doubt about that. but there is a reason for it. he does these tweets, these
morning s reports, a source says the president s team does intend to cooperate fully with the special counsel. the focus on the special counsel and the president s own words in that new york times interview overshadowing, if you will, the attempts of this administration once again to focus on policy. today, we do expect to see the president this afternoon, as he meets with the survivors of the uss arizona. john and john, back to you. alisyn, i ll take it now. all right, so lots to discuss. we have cnn political analyst, david druker, and david sanger, jeffrey toobin. great to have all of you. i ll start with you, david drurk, because you and i are here together in washington. let s start with this. is the thinking of president trump s legal taeam that if anyone on mueller s team has ever, say, given money to a democratic candidate, that they
illusion, delusion, yes. i just thought we d have some fun with words. sesame s grover word of the day perhaps, sean. let s get the bottom line, shall we? cnn political analyst david druker, conjunction junction, what s your function? you stole my joke. i don t know if you ve been colluding with somebody and sneaking into my head, that s what i ve been thinking of for the last couple of hours. what was she doing? because that predictably, extremely predictably, is all over social media right now with people putting all different kinds of things on pieces of paper there trying to make light of these questions. well, look, she was having a little fun. i don t think we should beat her up for that. i do think it was interesting that she did violate one rule which is never restate the air when you re trying to make a correction. so she threw the collusion word out there, she said not yet, which i m sure a lot of people are saying, you re right, not yet, but we re getting there. so,