obviously is calling for a cleanse of the fbi. then there s this, on monday, the trump administration declined to impose sanctions against purchasers of russian arms sanctions that congress passed overwhelmingly in july 517-5. democrats blast add the administration s decision to defy congress despite voting for the sanctions six months ago, republicans have been all but silent. joining me political analyst jennifer ruben, republican strategist and media consultant rick wilson. jennifer, since you re here, lets me start, i think it s significant to look at the trajectory of this which is that donald trump the republican party is more unified behind donald trump as time has gone on than it ever has been. six months ago, you had this vote seen as a sort of rebuke. overrideable majorities. now they say we re not doing this right now. there s possible explanations for that and you hear nothing. my theory is that it shows how
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it seems hard to say if you re fbi director and put that statement in those terms and the rez says no, saws off the limb behind you, i don t know how you stay. it s hard. the real question is does the building, does the fbi building think no matter what had he need him. he s the only one standing guard. thank you both for being with me. still ahead the congressman who obviously called president trump explicitly racist in the wake of his state of the union speech is here to explain why. plus the lie president trump made up on spot in tonight s thing 1, thing 2 next. you wouldn t do only half
this right now. there s possible explanations for that and you hear nothing. my theory is that it shows how much the party has fall in line behind him. absolutely. as rick would tell you, everything donald trump touches dies and everyone who obviously interacts with him becomes morally corrupt. for reasons that still i don t quite emotionally understand, don t quite grasp, they think their fate is tied up with his. it is but not in the way they think i think. they have allowed themselves to be led around by the nose by the likes of not only donald trump but dern nunes. no one appears to stand up and say not only does the emperor have no clothes but this is a farce, we re destroying our national security infrastructure, destroying congress s relationship. it s abilities to exercise oversight. there is no institutional grown-up in the room. that is what is so troubling. it s in some ways i think, rick, jennifer was talking about standing up or they view their face the as bound. i thi
genuine fear. they have genuine fear come november not only are they going to be wiped out here but they re going to be wiped out in the senate. this is not looking good for 2020. this is going down in flames. two things, we should say the trey gowdy stepped down today. chair of the oversight committee. and even as the generic ballot narrows and it has quite a bit, you re watching more and more retirements which makes me think republicans have a bead on this maybe we don t. reuters now reporting, rick, just in the last few minutes they re going to release the memo tomorrow. what does that mean? what it means that speaker ryan made a decision to allow devin nunes to cover donald trump s ass and to compromise national security information by putting out something that is obviously a slurry of cherry picked b.s. and they re going to