i think you re going to have to yeah, i think they re going to have to see more on the russia collusion side than they have already. i don t think this campaign finance stuff is going to roust any republicans, a lot of republicans don t we re not going to stand up to the president about his words? the crime i understand what you re saying, but that to me is a figure leaf they re hiding behind. he s still saying what he s saying. that the fbi is full of a bunch of democrats and if the request is for if the question is when are republicans going to do something or say something. i think it s going to be at the corn collusion of the mueller report, or when a congressional committee issues a final report that says, here s the truth and here s the full picture and here s the full story on russia, we don t have that yet. if you re asking me for an honest assessment, my honest assessment is, they re going to wait on russia, they re not going to take the bait on cohen,
i tend to believe there was no backroom deal. nancy pelosi is very good at showing you how her power work and that s what we got shown. here is the deal, though. i don t think any of us doubted. she said she would be a transitional figure way back in the day. there had been talk for months that she would agree to two years, in this case four years, that she ll have to put some kind of limitation or term on this. we saw what happened. in the end, no one was running against her. do you disagree? nancy pelosi could have gone you believe tim ryan when he says, yeah, this wasn t a figure leaf? we actually got some stuff? the deal makes all the sense in the world politically speaking.
satisfied or not satisfied with how much work was done. i think most members of the public assumed going forward that the fbi would do a full investigation including talking to people who could corroborate dr. ford, the failure to do that ought to leave some concern in the minds of all of us and the senators who will vote on this. and so if it is perceived as a figure leaf or some sort of pretext, then i think it could undermine the confirmation of brett kavanaugh and leave a stain on him and the court. and you discussed the fact if, a, the fbi were asked to properly investigation, it has the resources to do so. but that this isn t what they were going to be told to do by the white house. so this put the fbi in a tough situation. but i don t know that you were surprised buyer in oy this outc. no, i think the question was what was the objective.
more questions later today. he is going to have that cabinet meeting. is he in a mood to talk? we ll have to wait and see. he is undoubtedly going to get follow-up questions about how sincere the walk back was. no kidding. thank you. the president s comments didn t do much to calm the storm over at the capitol. while he tried to pull the helsinki 2.0, there was a lot the president has not said so far and did not say in the roosevelt room. he did not clear up the remark where he said both the u.s. and russia are to blame. he did not fully accept the findings of american intel je intelligen intelligence, blaming other countries, in addition to russia. he didn t condemn russia for its attack on the election, and did not share a plan on how the u.s. would hold russia accountable. msnbc s garrett haake is on capitol hill. sure, republicans got a figure leaf s worth of cover from the president s quote, unquote, clarification, but what does it mean for the appetite of republican leaders to
when i saw nikki haley walk out, what it said to me as somebody who s outside of this looking in, is we don t want to hear the palestinian side. we re only interested in talking to israel and while every u.s. administration has been very heavily pro-israel, democrat and republican, same, in this case, there s not even the figure leaf of saying we want to be an honest broker. what message now does the government of israel have? do they now believe themselves to be in full alliance with the united states, with the palestinians cut out? what did israelis now think the united states s role is? hi, joy. i think what israelis think and what the israeli government thinks is not necessarily the same thing. in terms of the israeli government, i think that they hope and wish that they are in complete alliance with the trump administration, but every once in a while cracks show up in