i don t know if i had the presence of mind i would have said to the president sir, that s wrong. paul: florida senator marco rubio questioning thursday why fbi director james comey didn t immediately report his concerns about president trump s behavior to the white house counsel s office. let s bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor dan, and washington columnist kim strossel and editorial board member joe rago. dan, does this self-description of comey s behavior, i didn t have the self-possession to address the president directly and tell him this is inappropriate. does that wash in your mind? i don t think it washes in my mind, paul. but more importantly doesn t wash in the minds of the american people. everybody who watched that. i would include even democrats. look, there was something about the comey narrative that just didn t quite add up. and that exchange with senator rubio was a perfect example. virtually everybody listening to his description of what went
captain courageous, i don t know if i had the presence of mind i would have said, sir, that s wrong. paul: florida senator marco rubio questioning why former director james comey didn t immediately report his concerns about president trump s behavior to the white house counsel s office, let s bring in columnist and deputy editor dan henninger and kim strassel and joe rago. i didn t have the self-possession to address the president and tell him that isn t appropriate, does that wash in your mind? i don t think it washes, it doesn t wash in my mind and more importantly it doesn t wash in the american people, everybody who watched that, i would include even democrats. there something about the comey narrative that didn t quite add up and that exchange with senator rubio was a perfect example. virtually everybody listening to what his description of what
i was watching the show while i was gone. nobody has said what i said. nobody has ever said what you just said. jim vandehei, let me try to remember what i was going to ask you. the bring up a great point. the point is, people professing ignorance for donald trump. i understand his allies want to say he s just stupid, he s just a dumb guy. no, he s narcissistic. that doesn t wash. as you said, first of all, he s been sued his entir life, he knows this process. secondly, he s had a lot of people that have been taken down by the fbi. he understands that process. but most importantly, he and general flynn were hazing hillary clinton for a year and a half about her fbi investigation. they re well aware of the consequences of this. i ll put mika s statement in sort of a different way. which part? republicans that are watching the show and want to say, just brush this away, this is
played by a woman. i think the argument doesn t wash. the one thing she never does talk about in these reviews, bernie sanders beat her in business business and michigan, in business business and michigan i thought it was flashing yellow. it trnld out to be flashing red light. ty got a warning sign. they decided not to here it. they got warnings from others. debby dingle talked about how she was twarng campaign. that attention needed to be paid here. i want to go back to mysogyny. it is impossible to tweeze out, we were talking about this earlier. anti-female, and anti-hillary clinton, to the extent it existed. and to also feed in there people who were motivated and attracted to vote for hillary clinton because of her gender. so it is a really complex stew.
russia right now, again, what is going on with health care, 23 million people in america are at risk. especially those with pre-existing conditions to lose their coverage. that s not what we should accept in this country. so i think people understand that. an implied critique on your point. you have experience in richmond and he doesn t. some people will say, had that s not what i want. what s wrong coming in as an outsider? i would say, i m a doctor. if you need neurosurgery, you need someone who has been at the operating table in the operating room? do you want someone with experience? experience important, the governor has four years. you need to hit the ground running. what you want to do for virginia and you need the relationships on how to get it done.