of 2016 priebus said he would be concerned if it were true russians were behind the dnc and he did make other comments denouncing the hacking of people s private e-mails but republicans didn t actually do anything to stand with democrats. they never responded to that letter. joining me, a former clinton campaign strategist and a democratic strategist and a former chief white house ethics lawyer for george w. bush and another republican strategist. to you first, joel. i don t know if you recall the letter. i have a copy. in it donna brazile starts saying three weeks ago we challenged both parties to focus on the integrity of the election process. let s stand together, try to help each other. do you recall any response whatsoever coming from the rnc? zero. no response at all. now, maybe once something happened but i haven t heard anybody say there was a response
vowed war against establishment republicans. anyone who opposes trump and more importantly the special counsel in the russia investigation robert mueller. political reports bannon has been pushing president trump to apply pressure against mueller raising questions over whether or not those conversations are legal. joining me, co-authors and chief white house ethics lawyer for president george h.w. bush so he knows a few about these things. richard, what potentially about steve bannon talking to donald trump about russia and mueller would be illegal? they are conflict of issues statute. 18 united states code 207 prohibits a former senior official from representing back to the united states government, an agency they worked at. here it would be the white house with intent to influence the white house decisions on any
would seem to me that it s going to be somebody significant and the arrest is going to happen monday morning. does this pesh know who they are? they don t. that s the other part. i mean, this is like shaking trees to get some apples out there. there s a lot of people in washington, d.c. in the area that have probably had a very difficult weekend because they don t know who it is that s going to be arrested monday morning. i suspect it s going to be a dawn raid on a house. there s probably going to be a lot of fbi agents around and then you ll see a press conference by mueller earlier in na morning. i want to play for you what richard painter who was the white house ethics lawyer for george w. bush, he was talking about the congressional response fun president trump were to fire bob mueller. i don t see how the president could fire robert mueller without impeachment proceedings starting immediately in the house of representatives. i can t see how congress would tolerate that.
raised his life for our country why can t you remember his name. and that will make me a fan cry even more because my hood was awesome so i would say. well u.s. president drum it was quick to respond and cast doubt on the version of events related there by my you should johnson in a tweet fired off shortly after that interview aired trump claimed he quote had a very respectful conversation with the widow of sergeant well david johnson insisting that he quote spoke his name from the beginning without hesitation meanwhile political commentators are pleading with the president to stop the tragedy from becoming a complete train wreck ana navarro tweeting sergeant johnson s widow mother and congresswoman who all this into the call disagree if trump had any damn sense he just drop this former chief white house ethics lawyer richard painter tweeting some advice he is president her husband is dead just say i m sorry it s
outcome of the 2016 election. the u.s. intelligence community is charged with. the director of the cia the director of the cia appointed by donald trump defied his own agency s position to downplay s russia potential impact on the election and boss went further in his attempts to distract from the ongoing investigations into russia and the election. what he s done is one of the many reasons the chief white house ethics lawyer for president george w. bush said it s time to ask if trump is simply unfit to serve. whether the people around him need to act and he joins me next.