as well. look at that. he knows how to divide everywhere, including the nfl, as we just saw earlier today. ramesh and howard, thank you very much. good luck to the caps tonight. coming up, a story about a thing.
said today. he is giving a specific warning about something he says he is going to come back to. he is going to let it did for now, but he said, i will deal with the justice deputy. i would argue he picked a bad day to do that. right. because you had the senate judiciary committee debating 14-7 vote moved the mueller proek broke bill out of committee. 14-7 the timing could not have been worse. listen to orrin hatch and lindsay graham. firing mueller would cause a firestorm and bring the administration s agenda to a halt. it could even result in impeach men. you can t fire mueller. you can fire rosenstein. are you observe with that? no. mr. rosenstein is doing his job. i think if he fired mr. rosenstein without a good cause it would be seen as trying the get at mueller and blow the whole place out. the justice department warning howard, he picked a bad day to do this.
time now for the lid. panel is back. ram herb and howard. our friend at pugh did a study of what should be the ideal of the american democracy and what s the reality. should rights and freedoms should the united states be a place where rights and freedoms are respected. very important to the united states. 84%. actually describes the united states, 47%. on the issue of politicians facing serious consequence force misconduct. 83% said it should be very important for the u.s. only 30% believe it actually describes the u.s. and then confidence in the political wisdom of americans. this is not so much. 1997, you had nearly two third of the country feeling as if they trusted each other on their votes. now it s down to 56%. 35% up to 42%, not much. maybe that has to do with the current situation. but howard it did paint a picture of what the country wants america to be politically
american democracy. yeah. which is really striking, as you said, howard. donald trump has put this on the table. but he was elected in part to break norms, not to break america, but to break some norms, to say that we re not going to do things the way we ve always done it, because his argument, the winning one, that isn t working for too many americans. and obviously it resonated. and what you may be seeing a little bit here is a certain amount of backlash or buyers remorse among some voters, but also a reckoning of, what did that really mean for everyone? if you scramble the rules, what does that mean? and it does get to the polarization that ramesh was bringing up as well, the lack of distrust, collectively, left and right agree, there s too much money in politics.