there was a tweet from the new york times maggie haberman. she tweeted one person close to the white house sums up trump legal strategy right now as two teams. there s the trump/rudy team and then there s the lawyers. i ve heard something along those lines too that trump and rudy are running the stormy fog machine mayhem much to the consternation of emmett flood. it s a one flew over the cuckoo s nest. let s just look ahead and broaden this. i think it s clear as day where all of this is going. because he s a serial liar does not explicate him from having to testify before the special counsel. he can do it voluntarily or
such. it s something more akin to trumpistan where donald trump is above the law and his wins are supreme. that would be a tragedy for the constitutional republic that s endured since 1787. i agree 100%. we have to stand up for the rule of law at this point in our country s history, but that s going to require frankly a political act. republicans on the hill will have to finally have the country over party moment that we ve all been waiting for the what steve s talking about happens. i m not holding my breath. tig triggered by comey, wha does it say about how worried donald trump is about questions of comey s firing? or is it? this farmer s morning starts in outer space. where satellites feed infrared images of his land into a system built with ai. he uses watson to analyze his data with millions of weather forecasts from the cloud,
showdown between trump and mueller. we are all so excited that you re in the building. it s great to have you here. you re so nice to have me. thanks. let me ask you about rudy s latest move. so the only person who was surprised by the fact that bob mueller didn t want to submit a written take home test to the president was rudy giuliani. no one really expected this was how it would play out, not because mueller is being difficult, not because he wants to put the president in a perjury trial, but because as a serious prosecutor, you have obligations to build the evidence in the case. this an instance where mueller apparently feels strongly he needs an in-person interview and the law will likely support that. there s plenty of evidence. the things that are written for him have no relationship to the things in his own brain. he reads a speech and within 45 minutes he attacks it on twitter. there s no example you can point to where anything that s been written for him by anyone el
being in north korea, it was not included in the scripted remarks. whether he planned to say that or not, it is certainly even just in republican foreign policy circles, it is debatable whether or not the gaddafi example and now the iran example strengthen or weaken the president s hand in dealing with north korea. it s certainly a significant tell that he couldn t resist stepping away from the podium but still talking about north korea. west wing aides we ve been talking to say that s where his focus is right now. he believes that some sort of deal with kim jong-un, that is sort of the ticket, replacing what he thought middle east peace could be. that that will be something that he could achieve that none of his predecessors could. there s been some chatter as a
10-20 years. he came up with some areas of compromise with europe. president trump didn t want to do that. he decided to go not just for a soft exit, not just for some sort of a side agreement, but for the full withdrawal. this is very trumpian. what i think peter just described and what the reporting seems to bear out is that there was a less extreme option on the table and he didn t take it. we ve also seen on full display, the curtain was pulled back on this but none other than rudy giuliani, who s in the middle of a mosh pit of chaos around the president s legal questions about his relationship with a porn star. had a piece of paper, pretended it was the iran deal and spit on it. that was our high minded diplomatic preview of the president s foreign policy. can you talk about all the high road and low road and all the president s impulses that steve just laid out for us and how our