institutions. now that donald trump knows just a tiny bit more about government than he did when he was campaigning for president, he now sounds like he d rather be attorney general. you know, the saddest thing is that because i m the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department. i m not supposed to be involved with the fbi. i m not supposed to be doing the kind of things i would love to be doing and i m very frustrated by it. i look at what s happening with the justice department. why aren t they going after hillary clinton with her e-mails and with her the dossier and the kind of money? back with us, ej dionne and daniel dale. so there s the president saying will you fire question, will you fire jeff sessions if the justice department doesn t take action against hillary clinton and the president s answer is, i don t know. and then he goes on to throw some words at it after that. ej, when you just heard the president talking abou
june 9th at the trump tower meeting and this is the tip of the iceberg. this is how a normal investigation starts. papadopoulos is not going to be the first person to come in and sing like a canary. you re going to see a whole series of other people, people s names that are not household names. name that is we don t recognize. that are going to be coming forward in the course of this. people who are going to be indicted additionally to the first one with manafort and his sidekick. you will see a series of indictments and a whole series of other people throwing in the towel and telling the truth as to what happened. and, ej, we are seeing stories change along the way over the weeks and the months. carter page s story kind of changes dramatically tonight in this new report and the president lashing out and lashing out at the justice department. that usually if we follow his pattern of lashing out in the past, that usually means there s something he s worried about. right. i think the
better job separating trump s manner and the ease with which he does these things from the seriousness of what he s actually doing. and, ej, what about this that jeff sessions now is back on the i don t know list on the question of is donald trump going to fire him? well, i wonder, by the way, i want to correct the record. nixon, the articles of impeachment were voted by the judiciary committee. but i think that donald trump it may preparing the way to pressure sessions to give him a choice either you cooperate in some way in firing mueller or in stopping mueller or in obstructing mueller or i am going to be ready to fire you this time. i mean, the very thing that trump was upset with sessions about was sessions decision to recuse himself because he knew he should not be part of this inquiry.
that, of course srks what his campaign chairman paul manafort is charged with. so i think trump is very good with the certain segment of the population and inclined to believe him of muddying the waters by accusing democrats of the things that he is more seriously accused of. he is very good at getting a minority of people who are devoted to him to continue to be devoted to him. he hasn t changed a single mind in his favor since election night. ej and daniel, thank you very much for joining us tonight. appreciate it. thank you. thank you. coming up, thomas freedman explains why he calls trump a chump. and, pussy riot will join us to talk about the similarities of vladimir putin and donald trump. , have you any wool? no sir, no sir, some nincompoop stole all my wool sweaters, smart tv and gaming system. luckily, the geico insurance agency
sidekick. you will see a series of indictments and a whole series of other people throwing in the towel and telling the truth as to what happened. and, ej, we are seeing stories change along the way over the weeks and the months. carter page s story kind of changes dramatically tonight in this new report and the president lashing out and lashing out at the justice department. that usually if we follow his pattern of lashing out in the past, that usually means there s something he s worried about. right. i think there are two scientific rules in this inquiry. rule one is what you just said. whenever he s attacking the justice department he s in a lot of trouble. and scientific rule two is, you can determine the depth of that trouble by how often he says the words hillary clinton. and we have had a cascade of attacks on hillary clinton over the last week. and it is a classic trump technique which is he doesn t