i believe that what this president has done to our culture, to our civic discourse, you cannot unring these bells and you cannot unsay what he has said. and you cannot change that he has now in a very short time made it seem normal for schoolboy taunts and obvious lies to be spun out in a constant stream. i think this will do more lasting damage than richard nixon s surreptitious burglaries did. pulitzer prize-winning columnist george will joins us after this final break. al break most people think a button is just a button. that a speaker is just a speaker. or - that the journey can t be the destination. most people haven t driven a lincoln. discover the lincoln approach to craftsmanship at the lincoln summer invitation.
for things that donald trump has outdone. he was an unindicted coconspirator where he committed federal crimes with michael cohen and directed him to help him commit those crimes to win the presidency. the republicans who impeach bill clinton said there is nothing wrng with that and his conduct as president. the current chairman of the senate judiciary committee who was one of the prosecutors of bill clinton in the senate impeachment trial said there is nothing in his conduct as a candidate allegedly committing crimes to get elected or conduct as president that is worthy of even a single congressional leader. congressional hearing. conservative columnist george will who left the republican party when donald trump won the republican nomination is worried about what the trump presidency means for our future. here s what he had to say about that in an interview with the new york times book review podcast.
he was saying. stuff that he and other republicans were lying about what they believed. he actually said that on his radio show and at the end of this hour, pulitzer prize winning columnist will join us about what donald trump has done not just to the republican party, but to our politics and whether the damage can be repaired. when donald trump won the presidential nomination, this week he said that the damage the presidency of donald trump has done could be worse than the damage the presidency of richard nixon did before richard nixon was forced to resign the presidency. george willis said i think this will do more lasting damage than richard nixon s burglaries did. that damage, george will is talking about is damage that he said this president has done to our culture and our civic discourse.
mueller committee. george f. will, author of this book. what do you think of them given this news he said there was nothing wrong with getting oppo from any government. that will put exactly what i thought on june 3rd, 2016 when i left the republican party. six months before that, we knew everything we need to know about donald trump. what he is doing now is what he promised to do, chris. overturn all the norms that he associated with establishments. it turns out the norms have something to be said for them and maybe perhaps so to establish. you are the keeper of the writings. you have the scriptures. your party and former party is not. what are the conservatives. teddy roosevelt split into the pears replicate and dewey
disarmingly and ask logical questions and he starts thinking in this weird honesty. he admits and believes there is nothing wrong with getting dirt from the russians to use against an american opponent and following the political purposes of a foreign hostile power to win an election. i am going thank george f. will for a great book. talking to you more than that. we will talk about that in a moment. stick with us on this big news day. you are watching hardball. s bs day. you are watching hardball. this is the couple who wanted to get away