yeah, the president was on twitter. he didn t make secret his disdain for the process. it wasn t something that he did behind closed doors. how could there been obstruction? maybe you didn t rob the bank but you sped and way and got caught for speeding. you could make the case that obstruction happened without a crime. what the president did doesn t amount to a crime. the special counsel is not right not to charge him. i think robert mueller with all of his years experience and with all the money and resources that he had, he could have done a much better job outlining what he thought the president did wrong instead of can t charge him with a crime. if you can t charge him, what is the point of the second part of the investigation in the place place? you have nullified your own premise. charles: on that note, i thought it was interesting since there was a second part and they looked into obstruction, nobody
considering as nikki haley seemed to suggest at the security council or if it s going to be more rhetoric that doesn t amount to anything. trump very reluctant to show any leg on that at the white house today. shepard: josh, based on your reporting, hugh would a statement like this in that setting, accompanied by that world leader, be received in tehran, moscow, damascus? i think with some un certainty. people are heartened to hear the president so forcefully, talking in emotional terms about the victims of the attack. but talk is talk. really what people want to see is there going to be a difference from the obama administration in what actually happens on the ground. is the u.s. going to try to strike assad to deal with his ability to carry out the attacks. president trump acknowledged,
no, there s a whole russian connection of personal, political and financial russian connection. this is just totally unacceptable. i want to bring in msnbc chief legal correspondent ari melber. yesterday you were the first person to point out that i heard that this was very narrow, that it was only going to cover precampaign and then we got confirmation of that. but what the democrats are asking for, which is for him to step down, would require, one would think, some proof of wrong doing, some proof of perjury, very difficult things in situations like this, right, from a legal standpoint. very difficult. and you can make a misstatement that doesn t amount to perjury. there is a debate now over how to deal with this. sessions saying he wants to write a letter to update his testimony. others saying, senator blumenthal, that he wants sessions to come back and
less likely, but the question is, can hillary clinton come back. the answer is yes, but the clock is ticking. 95% in loudoun county. 80% in fairfax county. this is a you ll remember the senate race a few years ago, everybody was stunned that ed gillespie was so close to mark warner and was leading at times in the night and these votes came in and snap it changed. that s not saying that is what s going to happen but we have to wait to see what happens in the northern virginia suburbs. hillary clinton now that s back up now to what do we have? ten, 12:00,000. the is starting to run at 80%. virginia is one place, trump wins that. do you have to the hold these ones and let s check on these ones up to 79%. he s got 100,000 vote lead. you re up to 80%. talking about a pretty good lead. 94% there, we re still waiting for doesn t amount of votes but it s only 3% of the state population. i want to go to charlotte.
actually saw a very big decline in income, both reported income, dividend income and i think that s because we raised these tax rates and, christine, i think that s the bigger problem with the economy than the sequester, spending cuts. here again, with great trepidation i agree with steven moore. i think it was wrong to raise the social security taxes and also it doesn t make sense. the social security tax holiday was very important t doesn t amount to a huge amount of money per family, but, listen, it is still $1,000 and for most families $1,000 makes a big deal of difference in terms of discretionary spending. it is said that economic forecasters exist in order to make astroll engineers look good. let me warn, i am not bullish on the next quarter or the quarter following. i think that the storm clouds