dossier paid for by crooked hillary and the dnc and improperly used in, capital letters, fisa court for surveillance of my campaign. witch hunting. he had a twitterific weekend here attacking the basis of the investigation and the many players involved. with me gloria borger and david prees, author of the president s book of secrets. guys, welcome to both of you. gloria, on the hiring of this lawyer, joe digenova, why is he now hadded to the fray. he s been around a long time. the president knows him from television and maybe other places. they think a lot about the department of justice and the fbi in this. set that aside. the bigger picture here is that the president, trump org got subpoenaed on friday. the legal team saw a list of
let s be even keel here. don t tweet against mueller. so i think what you re seeing is a ratcheting up perhaps of a strategy to the next level. okay. so, david, then that plays into my next question which is if he s going ballistic over twitter, he adds digenova to this list of lawyers, what is the president s strategy in doing all of the above? i don t know which way it s going. on the one hand this could be a trial balloon. this could be him trying to draw out the republicans who will say this is going too far, we have to work with senator warner on crafting legislation to protect the special counsel and seeing who s with him or who s against him. frankly i m not seeing it. i m more with gloria where it s just a reaction, an impulse. if there s anybody with a lack of impulse control, it s this president. we ve seen it over and over again with statements that don t line up with what a reasonable strategy would say and instead
you re seeing him just lash out. that seems to be what s going on here with the attack on mueller, whom if memory serves, he has not named before in his tweets. he s attacked it much more generally with the no collusion all caps tweets. this goes after mueller name checks him directly. it s funny, david, you talk about maybe this brings out some republicans. i mean we are now getting names of some republicans. yes, you have the usual suspects on some of the sunday shows. a few. a few, yes. mitch mcconnell mia in any of this criticism. gloria, most recently led me add to the graham, flake, rubio statement, now you have senator bob corker warning of a, quote, total upheaval in the senate if trump tries to fire mueller. he s calling for a bill to protect mueller and tie it to the must-pass spending bill. and we just heard from orrin hatch, quote, it s the stupidest thing that trump could do. so what do orrin hatch and bob corker have in common?
direction. he may continue unless his lawyers say to him it s not in his self-interest. and he listens to his lawyer. but he s got a new lawyer, right? yes. the irony is he may be creating the very conditions he s trying to prevent. by pushing this forward, he may be creating that consensus in the senate that clearly wasn t there before, at least obvious in the public sphere it wasn t there before, he may be pushing some people on the fence not to be courageous and speak out publicly but to be will to make the hard choices when that time does come. david and gloria, thank you so much. thank you. we are about half an hour away from closing bell on wall street and you can see all the red on your screen. the dow down 415 points. facebook leading the way from markets really taking a hit. details on how the tech giant allowed your personal information basically to be stolen. plus president trump s lawyers are now responding to stormy daniels by suing her for $20 million. why t
they re leaving congress. yes, hello. a lot of these people. flake, corker, hatch, they re leaving. easy for them. free to speak. easy for them to say. ryan put out a statement saying over the weekend, mcconnell ought to i mean mueller ought to stay there. but mcconnell and other republicans, i think they re kind of waiting. i think they re afraid. they don t want to do anything right now. these are not profiles in courage here. and i think you re right. if you had a vote, if you did have a vote you would know where the republicans are. i don t think that s trump s strategy, but it would be interesting to see how they line up. david, what do you think about that? well, let s remind ourselves here that it s not as if the president is clear about whether there s actual guilt behind these allegations or not. if he is actually innocent of all the things the special counsel is investigating, then i think senator hatch is correct, that this is the stupidest thing he can do. but