rock arkansas in 1950s if dwight eisenhower said he was going to pardon any officers who had overtepd imagine in the 19 sixth if they bakted potter for bull connor the people in the university of mississippi resisting immigration. a president s job is to speak for the entire country as donald trump tried to do last night as we ve said in various ways he is just signaling support for the most divisive, least presidential, least historical moments in the responsibility of this job. so it is. it was said earlier this is we dish event. we dish to the nth degree and troubling. jennifer rub enin republican circles there is now a larger question apparently by the day. will donald trump be an unchallenged republican nominee as incumbent presidents are
where so many thousandis of hardworking american patriots. i would love if the cameras could show this crowd, because it is rather incredible. it is incredible. [ cheers and applause ] okay. we re back to the cameras show the crowd piece of a trump speech. this is all very familiar territory. we re monitoring the speech. and we will go to it if he raises anything that is within the news of the day. so david k. johnston, this report says that the president was yelling, swearing at the senate majority leader, for not controlling the senate investigations of donald trump s campaign and his involvement with russia. well, that may, as was pointed out, may well be a criminal offense because it may have been, depending on the exact words, an effort to interfere with an investigation
there are some republicans who know about this conversation. each of them becomes of investigative interest to the special prosecutor who will no doubt want to hear from mitch mcconnell and want it heto hear from him under oath about this phone call and want to know who mitch mcconnell told about this phone call and who else might have been listening to this phone call while it was going on. i think ron can confirm to us it would not be terribly unusual in the senate majority leaders office to have a staff person or someone else hearing the leaders end of a presidential phone call. right. i would thurry expect that at least one of the persons listening to take notes on this call. and having been on the other end after few of donald out of control phone calls, i can imagine how that conversation went. i think the important issue about this story is clearly
your diagnosis to be a very positive one. sounded to me like a reading of mental illness in the patient that his mind actually does not contain what used to be there. of course, none of us on the panel is a medical professional, starting with me. my dad was there fallos. we can t do it at arm s length. but there is a long record of whether donald trump is sort of in the moment thinks whatever he is saying. we know there s an impolite term for this. the initials are bs ing that i won t go into. there are more and more signs that whether or not this is appealing to the crowd in phoenix or the crowd he will turn out in west virginia or any place else. the republican party of mcconnell and corker and others are deciding how long they will
republicans in the senate are protecting donald trump. but if he continues it down the path he is on, i don t think that will continue. and as for the idea that trump is really upset about health care he attacked jeff flake who voted with him on health care. he is going after jeff flake not because of health care. he is going after jeff flake because flake said he want it hold trump accountable for his wrongdoing. like david k. johnson said, dona donald trump sp in this only to protect donald trump. i want to read you this report tonight. it says, during the call which mr. trump initiated on august 9 from his new jersey golf club the president accused mr. mcconnell of bungling the health care issue. he was more animate bed what he intermated what the senator s refusal to protect him from investigation of russian interference in 2016 election. here is the sourcing, according to republicans he briefed on the conversation. and david, that is saying that