we re discussing policy issues and policy disagreements that the anonymous author seems to have with president trump, particularly on his handling of russia. that doesn t fall into the realm of classified information. i thought it was a notable effort on the part of the white house press corps to get sarah sanders to articulate by what legal standard the justice department would even look at this. as you know, you don t just send things over to the justice department and say, hey, guys, you know, can you come up with a law that might have been violated here? it just it s part of the general politicization of the legal system that you see coming both from the president and from sarah sanders at that white house podium again and again. remember, it was only last week before the anonymous op-ed came out that the president was tweeting, suggesting that his justice department ought to reconsider apparently for political reasons charges against two republican members of congress. and so i
they re putting this on national security. nothing was classified. nothing that would even affect national security. is that what this is all about? well, no, it s not what it s all about. as you know, the national security element of the op-ed we re discussing policy issues and policy disagreements that the anonymous author seems to have with president trump, particularly on his handling of russia. that doesn t fall into the realm of classified information. i thought it was a notable effort on the part of the white house press corps to get sarah sanders to articulate by what legal standard the justice department would even look at this. as you know, you don t just send things over to the justice department and say, hey, guys, you know, can you come up with a law that might have been violated here? it just it s part of the general politicization of the legal system that you see coming both from the president and from sarah sanders at that white house podium again and again. remem
inoculated from whatever the wit witch-hunt is. this doesn t fall under the category of witch-hunt. why is it that rod rosenstein did not give mueller this aspect of the case and gave it to the prosecutors in the southern district. by doing that, it insulated mueller from some of the criticisms that he truly is on an unending witch-hunt that s looking at all sorts of things that have nothing with russia. these career prosecutors who do not have political faces, who do not have the public images that mueller has, has r have gone in and done this case. what does the president say? is this part of the witch-hunt? is it a justice department wide thing? it insulated mueller. do you think, eli, the fact this is getting more sprawling, not less, the fact that there are enemies within if the president doesn t make it, if the president is ever impeached in the house, it will not be the 17 angry democrats that he tweets about. it will be his former campaign chairman paul manafort, his form
access to classified information. the white house, get this, accuses brennan of erratic conduct and behavior. coincidentally it comes a day after brennan s tweet which was a strong rebuke against the president and his insulting language when referring to former trump white house aide omarosa manigault newman, referring to her as a lowlife and a dog. so far newman has been dominating the discussion. the pressure is reportedly getting to the president and the white house. joining me now from the white house is nbc news hans nichols. hans, this explanation seems a little strange given that the president does nothing but tweet and he s he can be described as erratic in his tweeting. it seems highly politicized. well, it s politicized but it s also those who have criticized him. this doesn t fall along straight party lines. of those six, seven other names, michael hayden a republican but very critical of the trump administration. of course jim comey was a
off and loughton has never been as big as it is now. the opel crisis in eisenach comes during a period of robust economic growth regionally there are some three thousand jobs they can seize perhaps one small consolation for opel employees here. spectrum reader with more world news thank you very much christophe which took share lections being daughter had to june campaign planning is underway that s likely to test relations with europe it s against this backdrop the german foreign minister heikal moscow met his turkish counterpart m if you god was if you in new york moscow splashed his government will maintain its ban on foreign politicians campaigning in germany cover so who says he plans to visit germany for an annual memorial service in the turkish community ma says that doesn t fall under the ban but the visit has raised concerns the event could be turned into an election rally an estimated one point four million texans living in germany are eligible to vote