so in may of 2017 he felt very good. it s funny he said the word witch-hunt because that s been the president s constant refrain. i will say a lot of conservatives at the appointment of mueller praised his professionalism. that chorus has driwindled to a precious few. that was before he wrote a 20-page memo outlining why he thinks the mueller investigation should be curtailed. if i can, i want to get to the other major breaking news over the last 24 hours. sure. which is this inadvertent revelation, i guess, to me it seems impossibly inadvert meant e tent. it s vert zblent that paul manafort s lawyers revealed that paul manafort had delivered private polling information to this man who has known ties to russian tells. your reaction. i mean, why would anyone possibly think, john that there was collusion between a top campaign official and someone linked to the kremlin?
credibility the american public has about the role of government which is already undermined. it s now 28%. during watergate it was higher. and what this is going to do is tank that even more and ge tent who say, big government is taking over everything. it s bad. you can t trust it. and by the way, it s also incompetent. it gives them an awful lot of talking points as we mate say. joe, you were up on capitol hill listening to the attorney general of the united he was grilled before the house judiciary committee today on several of these emerging scandals. including the irs, in fact. and he did say during that testimony before the house judiciary committee that he intended to launch a nationwide, a wide-ranging investigation of the irs and its practices. there was very little talk about that other issue of course that unusual investigation of leaks involving the associated press,