welcome back to hardball. with the release of today s memo fbi director christopher wray now stands at odds with the president who obviously appointed him. trump is now claiming that the leadership in the fbi and the doj, department of justice, are biased against him. he said that today. well, in an op-ed piece in the new york times, pulitzer prize winning reporter tim weimer calls that memo a cudgel created to attack everyone who obviously has been in charge of the federal investigation of team trump. he says the president may try to fire them all but he won t win the war despite the degradations that this president has inflicted on executive branch, there remains a fay lax of honorable people at the justice department and the fbi more beholding to principle than politics. prepared to fall on their swords rather than sub born high crimes. i m joined by tim weiner who obviously wrote that piece and also the author of enemies a history of the fbi. also with us, democratic u.s.
some good things to say for the egyptian people. prior to the day we saw impassioned, articulate english-speaking people from all walks of life, expressing things that americans would be very happy to express. we want democracy. we want freedom of speech. then, when the trouble started, we were touched by something else. every step of the way there were some egyptians who said no, we will not return to the stone age. this is uncivilized behavior. time after time, people helped us. in no way do we sit here and indict the egyptian people at all. all the way along we met with huge kindness. but absolute moments of complete brutality. what kept you going through that whole fay lax phalanx? thing that possibly you could survive. you get to that point you are
some good things to say for the egyptian people. prior to the day we saw impassioned, articulate english-speaking people from all walks of life, expressing things that americans would be very happy to express. we want democracy. we want freedom of speech. then, when the trouble started, we were touched by something else. every step of the way there were some egyptians who said no, we will not return to the stone age. this is uncivilized behavior. time after time, people helped us. in no way do we sit here and indict the egyptian people at all. all the way along we met with huge kindness. but absolute moments of complete brutality. what kept you going through that whole fay lax phalanx? thing that possibly you could survive. you get to that point you are