and the question is, whether or not all of this bally-hooing about he asked for this, he asked for that, is going to amount to anything. sometimes when you build something up and then it doesn t pan out, it s very disappointing for the democrats. what you have right now is this growing sense that president trump is invincible. that you can throw anything at him and he s going to bat it down. and he seems to do that repeatedly, time after time. so what the democrats are afraid of, is that this is just one more time where this is not going to pan out for them and they re not going to be able to impeach him and they re too close to the election. the best thing i think they can hope from this is that it, it is somehow the american people who stand up and say we can t take any more of this. chandelle summer thank you so much and antoine seeray thank you so much. the fight over the president s tax returns as a federal judge sides with his campaign on the latest twist in the battle.
election. if that doesn t pan out, the public has heard all of this too. i think it s a good question how well the public will receive a lot of continuing investigations and other matters. it s certainly possible that southern district of new york can come up with criminal allegations against the president for the way he conducted his business but justice department policy does not allow for indictment for that while the president is in office. it s not clear to me either that and impeachment would make any sense because impeachment i think is clearly intended for things done by a president while he is in office. this is going to be he s going to be under a ton of document requests and continuing hearings and investigations and sound and fury about all of this. how far it will go if mueller doesn t come up with something big, is a good question. bret: there is politically a risk-reward moment for democrats. as you point out, we are heading
staff, it would lower morale, trigger potentially an exodus. why don t they like him very much? i think he s viewed as a striver, as an operator. i think he prompts some fear among people who have managed to survive there for a long time. and it s not surprising people want to hold on to their jobs when somebody comes in who seems to be able to have the president s ear, to be able to be in important meetings and meet with the president privately, it s not shocking to understand why that might prompt some fear. but i would add that all of these conversations that we have about chaos in the west wing, about an upheaval, a lot of this doesn t pan out. the president doesn t fire people. he likes to force them to stay on until they re so demoralized that they eventually evaporate
everybody at the high school had heard this story. that s not evidence. when you have matters like this, you sent out investigators and that is the fbi. all the senate has to do, any member of the senate committee has to ability, but it probably should be the chairman, to ask the president to re-open the i ve investigation. this happens hundreds of times in the course of any administration. this happens all the time that new information is brought to the economy. often, it doesn t pan out. sometimes it does. most of the time we don t know about it because it s either dismissed or irrelevant and it turns out to be true and disqualifying and the individual simply withdraws. this is not that kind of a case. that is a lifetime seat on the
over the years. why couldn t the regular justice system have caught him at some point? why didn t the justice department as it exists, all the campaign regulations we have caught him? we had to set up a special counsel, empowered to look at one specific issue and it really just is looking at anything and it looks sort of like since it hasn t been able to fulfill its main charge which is to find something wrong with russia and the 2016 election, it s doing what special prosecutors tend to do when their main focus doesn t pan out and they just catch whoever they can catch to justify the existence of the probe. bret: we don t know what we don t know as far as the thought process of mueller and his team to put the squeeze on manafort and cohen. over under if the president is going to mention manafort, pretty high? i think it s certainly likely we will hear from him about