plan. tell us what the plan is. we ll be announcing that in two months, maybe less. the new york times says the president is willing to gamble that putting out a plan to be debated on the campaign trail will offset some of the advantage the democrats have on the health care issue. republicans worry about putting out a plan with no chance of passage would only give the democrats a target to attack over the next year. now we know straight from the president s mouth why after all the back and forth he didn t fire special counsel robert mueller. here s what he told abc news. i wasn t be going to fire. you know why? because i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. the president appeared to be referring to the saturday night massacre. that s when richard nixon ordered the firing of watergate special prosecutor leading to a series of resignations at the top of the justice department. impeachment hearings followed ending in nixon s res
it. why after all of the back and forth the president did not fire special counsel robert mueller. here s what he told abc news. i wasn t going to fire. you know why? because i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. now the president appeared to be referring to the saturday night massacre. that s when richard nixon ordered the firing of watergate special prosecutor archibald cox leading to a series of resignations and impeachment hearings followed ending in nixon s resignation. important fact check. the mueller report shows how he did try to fire him despite his insistence that he wasn t, quote, going to fire mueller. there s a new front in the global trade war. india increased tariffs up to 70% on american goods. the products targeted included apples, almonds, several chemical products expected to be around $240 million.
i didn t say that. article 2 would have allowed me to fire him. it sounds like i wasn t going to fire, you know why? because i watched richard nixon going around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. catty, fact check true. yes. interestingly, you also have, then, john dean on the hill last week saying the mueller report was the equivalent of the watergate report for trump as it was for nixon. so another perhaps historical reference the president has not drawn up. the issue for democrats is you still only have 66 democrats who have come out and said that they are in favor of impeachment. and nancy pelosi knows she also has to listen to look ahead to 2020 to holding the house and there are going to be, what, 25 to 30 house seats that are held by democrats that the republicans have their eye on in districts that trump won and those are the democrats who are saying on a regular basis to the
special counsel robert mueller. here s what he told abc news. i wasn t going to fire, you know why? because i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. the president seemed to be referring to the saturday night massacre. that s why nixon fired archibald cox. important fact check, the mueller report explains how he did try to fire the special counsel despite saying in the afc interview he wasn t going to fire mueller. alexandria ocasio cortez responding after president trump quoted her. the president seizing on this moment during her appearance on abc. well, i think that we have a very real risk of losing the presidency to donald trump if we
much of washington is still reeling from president trump s controversial new interview with abc news. stockpiled with stunning comments from saying he d take oppo research from foreign governments to making false statements about his polling numbers. in the middle of one conversation he sent his chief of staff out of the room for coughing, and he claimed for himself wide ranging constitutional powers. look, article ii, i would be allowed to fire robert mueller. there was assuming, assuming i did all of the things i said i want to fire him, number one, i didn t. he wasn t fired. okay, number one, very importantly. but more importantly article ii allows me to do whatever i want. article ii would have allowed me to fire him. so it sounds like you re i wasn t going to fire. you know why? i watched richard nixon go around firing everybody and that didn t work out too well. shannon pettypiece for