something the president should be condemning? el wiwell, neal, i know you like the president s tweets. i ve heard you complain about them for a while. no, i want a tweet from the president. i m asking for one. maybe he will, neal, maybe he will. kirsten, where do you stand on this? yeah, well, i think in a normal world, the president would probably condemn something like this. you would think that the president would want to be stan standing up for the judiciary. but i think we all really know we don t live in a normal world. and i think even if you were to give michael cohen the benefit of the doubt on crosshairs, he wrote a bunch of crazy stuff about the judge. roger stone. what did i say? michael cohen. oh, okay. even if we were to give him the benefit of the doubt, you have to look at everything he was saying, that it s a show trial, it s deep state, that this judge is some part of a cabal that s out to get him.
purging it of the sort of global jewish cabal that they believe runs the world. and we re just seeing the latest manifestation of that thinking. it s nothing new, but it s just been intensified over the last few years. and there is this rhetoric in this country that s happening on the extreme right about a second american revolution or a civil war. and that more carnage like this is coming. so those of us that study this think that we ve probably got more of this ahead of us. i hope your studies are wrong. i hope, i hope, i hope. but the fact that you said that you ve seen more of this, and you point to the rhetoric, and you point to the far right. can you pinpoint what is causing this uptick in violence? el wiwell, it s always been . it s something that goes back, these conspiracy theorys and the beliefs that the government is controlled by alien influences. but what we re seeing right now, and of course, you have to talk about the role the president plays in this is a magnificati
him. which would you prefer? i don t have a preference. to me, it s more about whether or not the department of justice can be trusted to execute their mission. with rosenstein, it s the guy who hired mueller the day after trump said he wasn t going to hire mueller to be the fbi director. it s the guy who signed the fisa warrant. it s the guy that many in congress believe improperly redacting information that we have a right to see the guy trump picked. el wiwell, yeah, no, true. fair point. but i think the president has illuminated his thinking on that, it was the beginning of the administration, it was who jeff sessions wanted, and now you see jeff sessions, barely the attorney general, on the most important investigation in the country. there is a practical consideration here, though here, and a political one, obviously. if he resigns, legally, the president replaces the two positions, deputy attorney general, attorney general in charge of the russia investigation, he has
here s we ve made the decision to improve our relationship with cuba. we ought to use this opportunity to try to improve our friendship with this island, with this nation, and try to reduce the suffering of these people as well. obviously we take care of our own citizens. we take care of the citizens of our allies, but we have capacity and we should be thinking about how we might be able to assist the cubans as well. this is the moment for that kind of outreach. now, your storied car ee eee career, you were involved in the six-party negotiations with north korea in the past, and i want to ask you about all this talk about military options. is this hollow talk, is this deterrence, what s the bottom line here? el wiwell, it s never hollow. we re very serious obviously and the military capabilities we can bring to bear in this crisis. i think the secretary of defense, the national security adviser, the u.n. u.s. ambassador to nato or to the u.n., they ve been very clear
think that suggests that they have something to build on, but i think it will be getting ahead of ourselves to say they can all of a sudden start dreaming about taking back congress or taking back the house. if handel wins, i think it just suggests that a republican won a republican district even though she was facing a well-financed democratic challenger, and democrats really have to go back to the drawing board and realize that part of their message is an anti-trump message, john, but part of their message has to be a prospective message heading into 2018 about what they want to offer voters that they ll do rather than what the administration won t do. i say this as an assistant little league coach here, democrats are running out of participation trophies. i mean, sooner or later, jeff weaver, you know, you ve got to win somewhere, right, so do you believe the democratic base? jason miller suggested the democratic base is not energized. is that for real? el wiwell, nothing could