there is no illegality after all of this, republicans can rightly say our agenda has been derailed, there s been all this focus on this and there s no there there. we re at the beginning of an investigation and we don t know which way it s going to do and if it turns out that there are no prosecutions, it will not be as damaging as it appears now. but let me just correct one thing that jeff just said, not every president researches impeachment. not barack obama, not george w. bush. i said they should. no, they shouldn t. nobody was going to impeach, george w. bush. no one is going to impeach barack obama. the possibility of impeachment now exists for donald trump. it s unlikely, but lawyers are paid to worry and it s appropriate for them to two some preliminary research, it doesn t mean he s going to be impeached.
tough make a decision on whether the information of this particular witness helps you move in the direction you want to move in. i just think they knew what they had. they had some idea of what is on the tape and some idea of what he has to offer and i think it s interesting that the words of the campaign and cheering section that went on by mike flynn, those words are coming back to haunt him. about immunity and i m paraphrasing, saying if you re asking for immunity, that s like saying you have committed a crime. mark geragos, just because you ve asked for immunity, that doesn t mean you ve committed a crime? right. and i would come to his defense right now and say just because he s asking for immunity doesn t mean he s guilty but at the same time, he s a complete hypocrite given the tape that s out there and it reminds me of these
feelings about the bravery of not only the first responders but the victims and the heroics of the families that have come through. all of this is happening against the backdrop of donald trump building out his white house team, and this afternoon, the trump team made it official, putting out a press release saying andy puzner will be his pick to be labor secretary. just because donald trump is president-elect doesn t mean he s shying away from his twitter takedown of after touting his deal with carrier to keep jobs in the u.s. just a week ago. now they re keeping over 1100 people, which is so great. reporter: now he s unloading on the president of the union that represents the indianapolis carrier plant. that s after chuck jones said trump lied by overstating the number of jobs he convinced carrier to keep in the u.s. the actual number is 800, not 1100. trump went on the attack on twitter, saying, chuck jones,
reporter: that s right. donald trump is trying to put some cracks in hillary clinton s firewall in this state. a trump campaign official says trump will be delivering a speech focused on national . and foreign policy issues tonight. when he gets up on the stage behind me i m told he ll have seven medal of honor recipients with him. and during his remarks will be talk about the plans to build up the nation s navy and air force. all critical issues in this state where military issues are very very important. but we should also point out something we ve been seeing the last 72 hours and that is donald trump staying on message, avoiding that incendiary rhetoric that has thrown his campaign off course from time to time throughout the course of this campaign. but that doesn t mean he s holding back. he s still going after hillary clinton s e-mail controversy. but consider how he responded to president obama earlier today. the president has been going right after donald trump but the words
it s unrecoverable. he has apologized, and i don t look at his apology as very genuine, but let s stipulate it is for a minute. he can apologize but still doesn t mean he s qualified for the office. shouldn t select him as our standard bearer. i m not at all uncomfortable saying donald trump disqualified himself, not to say i support hillary clinton. we can talk about those disqualifications also, but i don t understand how republicans now can go out and continue to defend him and i think they do so at their own peril. do you think a knockoff effect if he stays on, or assume he stays on the top of the ticket for the rest of the races in the senate and house? you know, i don t see that. i see the presidential race, because the media coverage has been so dominant with the presidential race and in particular donald trump. in a sense you have the presidential race in the middle of the ocean on lunatic island and all the other races have been able to sort of run their own races and repu