i think the best advice would be to let robert mueller do his job. is mueller s job a witch-hunt? i don t view it that way. he s going to stay there, he s going to get his job done, and he s got the support of republicans and democrats to get to the bottom of this. a sampling there of a few of the republicans who expressed support for special counsel robert mueller, the widely respected lawyer, decorated combat veteran in vietnam, a man who was the second-hng longest serving fbi director after j. edgar hoover. but we ve also seen an effort to discredit mueller led by president trump in fact what calls the probe a witch-hunt that is led by bad conflicted people. a complete 360 from just atlantic month when he called him a superb choice.
defend him. they are not doing it with very much enthusiasm but basically republicans are on trump s side. and i think he recognizes that and is playing a political strategy of keeping the base together. that s part of it. it s not always consistent with the smart legal track. and i think that s what is upsetting white house aides and plaurs w laws who are trying to help trump out who feel like he is not paying attention to the legal track. he is ten points above about george bush was when he was at rock bottom in the gallup poll. he is in the high 30s, maybe 40. you get a picture of a guy who is completely consumed by this. we had a story in politico. it is a stark contrast. bill clinton when he was going through impeachment did a good job keeping his cool and
kind of ascribed a last-ditch nature to the president s tweets today. they were really aggressive. and we re nowhere near that point. we are under 150 days. there s nothing last-ditch about this. this is like you know we ve got many, many more ditches to go through, folk. buckle up, this is not your last-ditch. believe me. but i mean i think that the thing about these tweets is when he says he points a finger at bill clinton and says he shouldn t have met with loretta lynch, the former attorney general. okay, maybe he has a point. except the problem is trump completely lacks self awareness here. he s president now. when he points that out he s maybe not remembering that he s the president and he met with the fbi director and said please don t pay attention to, or let go away the probe you have into my, you know, my national security adviser. when he is pointing a finger at bill clinton, that same i think
welcome back to the 11th hour. it s been 220 days since election night. but the president is trying to use his 2016 election foe to get out from under the scandal that has plagued his presidency thus far. president trump wrote on twitter just today, why is it that hillary clinton s family and dems dealing with russians are not looked at but my non-dealings are. and crooked h destroyed phones with a hammer bleached e-mails and had her husband meet with the attorney general days before she was cleared and they talk about obstruction? joining our conversation, reitzers correspond end jeff mason. we welcome him to the broadcast. pulitzer prize winning columnist for the washington post, eugene robinson and washington columnist for the boston globe, indira. jeff i ll begin with you. relitigating what happened 220
like he s got to hold that republican base together and make sure that members of congress kin to more or less defend him. they are not doing it with very much enthusiasm but basically republicans are on trump s side. and i think he recognizes that and is playing a political strategy of keeping the base together. that s part of it. it s not always consistent with the smart legal track. and i think that s what is upsetting white house aides and laws who are trying to help trump out who feel like he is not paying attention to the legal track. he is ten points above about george bush was when he was at rock bottom in the gallup poll. he is in the high 30s, maybe 40. you get a picture of a guy who is completely consumed by this. we had a story in politico. it is a stark contrast. bill clinton when he was going through impeachment did a good job keeping his cool and compartmentalizing and it looked