has no impact neil: but if everyone felt that way about the president, whether you re to the right or left, especially someone like you, you re patriots first and fo foremost. they put country first. they take a lot of sacrifices for a fraction of the pay many had before. they do it for the good of the country. politics, i m aware of. i understand. but if you harbor though views, every one of you harbor those views, one or two isn t going to come out and state it? i think if the people in the west wing were truly concerned about the mental stability of the president, they would in fact talk amongst themselves and formulate a plan and begin to approach and do that. we re not seeing that. so i actually think the book is nothing more than a cheap tabloid shot, trying to get up the president s ire and delves into areas where this guy has no expertise whatsoever and it
against flake. you don t think that would scare other members of the senate into maybe flake and others, you know, he pressured heller with regard to health care. heller literally did four different things. let s be clear. flake knows what he s up against. he knew he was going to be primary, you know, well earlier this year. he knows what he s up against and what he s doing, you re right. but we ve seen him do this. that is the impulsive part. i think it s also fair to say that i think bob corker was correct. it s also fair to say that an element of this actually delves off of being a strategy into being unhinged because i don t know what part of a political strategy tells you to go to arizona and trash a senator and actually give more praise to the dictator of north korea than you do a pow who is a united states senator who is fighting brain cancer. like that to me, that delves
secondly, deutsche bank has been in contact with federal investigators about the trump accounts. they re citing two people briefed on the matter. and the bank is expected to eventually have to provide information to robert mueller. the special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into the trump campaign s ties to russia. so in two separate stories tonight, the new york times is reporting that deutsche bank is expecting to have to hand over trump related financial and banking records to robert mueller as special counsel. and, the president is telling new york times reporters tonight that if robert mueller delves too far into his finances, he would consider that a red line. he would consider that a violation, never saying explicitly he would fire mr. mueller, but clearly making that threat. if the president fired the special counsel investigating russia after he fired the fbi director who s investigating
the special counsel overseeing the federal investigation into the trump campaign s ties to russia. so in two separate stories tonight, the new york times is reporting that deutsche bank is expecting to have to hand over trump related financial and banking records to robert mueller as special counsel. and, the president is telling new york times reporters tonight that if robert mueller delves too far into his finances, he would consider that a red line. he would consider that a violation, never saying explicitly he would fire mr. mueller, but clearly making that threat. if the president fired the special counsel investigating russia after he fired the fbi director who s investigating russia, presumably all h-e double hockey sticks would break loose in washington, presumably. republicans would come loose from their moorings on this issue, presumably.
is it too early to say it s a solid five and we have what a whole week ahead of us, potentially? reporter: yeah, these are five senators who have publicly made their legislations known. they said they d like to get to yes so that s significant, too, that suggests there is room for potential dpoegs and ongoing conversations. when these things come to sort of a head this week with getting the final draft bill and ten doing the vote, there will be lots of ups and downs, so we soul expect that over the next week. no one is saying it s a sure thing, but it s not a dead bill either. it s somewhere in between, richard. it could have happened before. let s get to russia now and that washington post article there, what is the white house saying? reporter: well, the white house is not talking about that article specifically that delves into the backgrounds-of-what the white house under the obama administration knew. but the president is suggesting that he has learned from this