the justice department s cases are actually a plot to keep him out of the white house. if i weren t running, i would have now bonnie coming after me. or if i was listened by a lot, i would have nobody coming after me. talk about that real trumped arrangement syndrome, in my opinion. instead of taking a dig at trump s regal problem, throughout good candidates ignored the most obvious elephant in the room. trump. and turned to criticizing president joe biden, the democratic party, and the justice department. joining me now, danielle moodie, host of okay if daily, coast of the daily beast new abnormal podcast, and co host of democracy-ish podcast. when she has time, she graces us with her brilliance. danielle, good morning. let s start with last nights event. are you surprised? because i was. the other republican candidates didn t take this perfect opportunity to dig into trump s legal woes. i mean, it was right there in front of them! i mean, i think what we have
later something mia mentioned, donald trump trying to get sessions to unrecuse from the probe, bob mueller is investigating that. i am going to dig into trump s conspiracy theories on russia and why some have been debunked and a strategy response to the rosanne racism scandal. why does donald trump think he gets an apology? plus, trolling in the trump era, how it works and how to stop it. i m i m ari melber. you with rough the beat. -or pa. what can i say? control suits me. go national. go like a pro. (wienermobile horn) to put a better hot dog it s oscain every hand.ion and that s just what we do. with no artificial preservatives,
handled the best way, and he wanted to get that assessment out there, that independent assessment of the fbi, that integrity. that s why it s the fbi out there. and he wanted that judgment to go to the american people so they could know for themselves. what he s seeing now is whether it s democrats last summer or now a republican president now, if you don t bow to their power, you re then thrown under the bus. the fbi director goes to a ten-year appointment so that they can remain independent across the but you can hear the president was able to find a cause from last year to use as a basis for firing the guy. i know you need to have cause for firing, but no one believes that cause required this firing, not at this point. that letter has been in the works probably for weeks or months. they ve also probably been waiting for comey to make a mistake that they can fire him for cause. president trump tried to reach out to director comey, try and bring him under his influence. i don t
blumenthal. shannon petty piece is a white house correspondent with bloomberg news and annie lynskey is chief north of national correspondent for the boston clo globe. and ayesha ross co-rco. what are we watching tonight? i don t think any of us saw this coming. i saw something with sally yates. trump was scared to death of her. a lot of this caught all of surprise. the newsroom was, you know, shocked when this came out. what s your headline tomorrow do you think in the globe? i expect this is right across the top? this is the move of a strongman. strongman as one word? yeah. i think we re going to find out is congress really a co-equal branch of government or are they sub servient to the white house? i think that answer will be clr in how they choose to respond i think they won t get on the bus again, my hope.
the republican members of the house who trooped on to that bus like little kids going to see buffalo bob or mr. green jeans and giggling on the way down that the president was going to pat them on the back for doing what he told them to. i think that s the question. do republicans stick by president trump with this because that s going to be key. i mean the democrats are lining up and saying that this is nixonian. they need a special prosecutor. but without the republicans on board, what are the democrats going to be able to do? i think the trump people care about they don t like the elite looking down on them. they don t like it, and they re right. they don t like arrogance in government. but here we have a guy not for their cause, not for the working stiff who lost his industrial job, not for the person who is tired of watching carole king dance with hillary or anything like that. here s a guy, to cover his own rear end, has just fired the guy prosecuting or investigating him.