president s spokesperson to call it the integrity of his own fbi into question. they also selected certain text messages that fit their story and left out others that didn t fit their story. you give me your text messages, i can make you believe anything. absolutely true. and the way social media and congress and the president played all these things in public, it continues on this barrage. it s release the memo one day, release the tests the next. it s the same playbook we saw in the campaign against hillary clinton with lost e-mails. matt, they also do seem to be cycling through a bunch of different ones. i m old enough to remember when they were all about uranium one for about a week. that didn t stick. unmacking. > what do you make of the ways in which they procedurally move through these? they have to move from one to the other. he had pick one, say trump tower being wiretapped. that doesn t pan out. they move to another one. that doesn t pan out. they move to uranium
for about a week. that didn t stick. unmacking. > what do you make of the ways in which they procedurally move through these? they have to move from one to the other. he had pick one, say trump tower being wiretapped. that doesn t pan out. they move to another one. that doesn t pan out. they move to uranium 1. they have to have something with which to attack the fbi so they can focus on something other than the fact we keep seeing embarrassing and new revelations about the president. there s a certain amount of partisanship kind of baked in in washington that you sort of understand. we are far beyond partisanship when you see the texts. these are dishonorable actions by dishonorable people launching attacks when they know the evidence contradicts their claims with no regard to career servants who obviously spent their careers trying to protect national security no, regard for the credibility of these institutions they re damaging, and all to thwart and subvert an investigation into
they spent a bunch of money of tax dollars sending a vast majority of it to the richest people in the country and they got to pay for it somehow and will try to did that by making the disabled and elderly pay for it. the american people think it s a bad idea and i agree with them. those on the left are so obsessed with what this means with regard to reducing the corporate tax rate if they would stop obsessing and focus on who will benefit is the middle income americans and the ben 23efits it will mean for th is where the focus needs to be. same time if this doesn t pan out or work like i hope it will yes this is going to be very devastating to the g.o.p. come midterm elections and will be a tremendous impact and something
if they would just stop obsessing about that and really focus on who will benefit from this is the middle income americans and the benefits it will mean for them, i think that s where the focus needs to be. at the same time, if this doesn t pan out, if this doesn t work like i hoped that it will, yes, this is going to be very devastating to the gop come mid-term elections. and it will be a tremendous impact and something that the democrats will certainly captallize on, but i think this will be good and productive. let me ask you this, alice. you say president trump will be an anchor to any candidate if he hits the trail in 2018. explain that. his approval rating right now is in the low 30s, and that s not something that any person running for office really wants to campaign along with. and especially with this tax reform package, if it s not good and the president s approval rating continues to stay where
people have to sort of wonder both on impeachment and 25th amendment, do you really want a system where this could be so much easier, when you can do these impulse moves to say someone has to be removed? it s a very dangerous game to play. bret: the pushback was so just cut and dry thereby the guy who breached them every day of course it s cut and dry, because it is such a ludicrous thing to be engaging with. to me it s more than all this. we just have been going through an entire year of people, whether it s a russia investigation, this conspiracy theory about russia collusion to steal an election. when that doesn t pan out we immediately switch to obstruction of justice. talking points about craziness. i think at some point people who have had their egos are by the fact that donald trump won the election need to just accept that they he did and stop tryio overthrow the results of a fair election. bret: final sound bite here. when i asked the national security advisor about th