obstruction of justice despite what senator risch pointed out in his testimony. i think calling this a witch hunt is a smart political strategy looking at all those things. chris: all right. enough about all of this. we re going to talk about one of the real subjects affecting people s lives that you all want to hear about, and i want to turn to president trump announcing this week that he is partially rolling back president obama s opening of diplomatic and economic ties to cuba. here he is. america has rejected the cuban people s oppressors. they are rejected. officially today, they are rejected. chris: brit, how significant is the president s decision really when you consider the fact that, yes, he is rolling back some things, on the other hand to, the u.s. embassy in havana is going to stay open, u.s. airlines and cruise ships are still going to be able to serve the island. what he did is he dialed back part of the outreach of cue a
obstruction of justice despite what senator risch pointed out in his testimony. i think calling this a witch hunt is a smart political strategy looking at all those things. chris: all right. enough about all of this. we re going to talk about one of the real subjects affecting people s lives that you all want to hear about, and i want to turn to president trump announcing this week that he is partially rolling back president obama s opening of diplomatic and economic ties to cuba. here he is. america has rejected the cuban people s oppressors. they are rejected. officially today, they are rejected. chris: brit, how significant is the president s decision really when you consider the fact that, yes, he is rolling back some things, on the other hand to, the u.s. embassy in havana is going to stay open, u.s. airlines and cruise ships are still going to be able to serve the island. what he did is he dialed back part of the outreach of cue a
that that s not right. so the way you see it t is incumbent on the fbi director to tell the president of the united states that is out of bounds, you are being inappropriate, not on the president of the united states to stop himself from asking something inappropriate of the fbi director. didn t ask. you see, that s the problem. you keep spinning it to an ask, instead of an expression of an aspirational expression. trump s lawyer was absolutely correct. senator risch from idaho was absolutely correct in questioning comey. the point is every time you try to talk about it, you try to make i hope that this flynn thing will go away pressure point. it is not a pressure point, but if comey took it as a pressure point, even incorrectly took it as a pressure point, he should have said something in the private conversation that the president had the courtesy to give him. here are the exact, here is the exact language.
it isn t the same as watergate. it s not the same as iran-contra but it has the same earmarks of a new revelation every few days. is there more that the white house could do to i don t know. you ll have to ask them. thanks. thanks, senator. senator mccain, obviously who was on the panel today. again, we re minutes away i keep saying this. i keep getting a several minute warning that we re minutes away. we ll bring it to you. can i just say sorry. let s be clear. it s absolutely the classic scandal that mccain just described is the quintessential distraction for the president of the united states. however, that can also be a motivation to suppress or interfere with an investigation. and if that is simply the basis for doing so, it can still constitute in the long run obstruction tendencies and be
answer. and the reason i keep saying his words is, i took it as a direction. right. he s the president of the united states. with me alone saying, i hope this. i took it as, this is what he wants me to do. i didn t obey that, but that s the way i took it. all right. gloria borger, he took it as a directive. basically, an order. even though, as you heard senator risch saying, i hope, i hope. when you re the president of the united states and you re in the white house, i hope you do this, i hope you do that. that seems, at least by the recipient, that it s an order. if your boss anywhere says, i hope you do this, you re going to think that your boss wants to you do that and perhaps you ought to think about that. when you re talking aboto the president of the united states, you multiply that ten-fold. you can only think that comey was thinking, as he put it, okay, this is a disturbing development. he said this is a disturbing