sunday saying that this guy by mueller is going to be over in days. why would he say something which will be disproven in days? why are they so embarrassingly toadyish to talk like this guy from oklahoma? it is puzzling because we have seen the trump s lawyers give us deadline after deadline. yeah. the guy with the handlebar mustache, ty cobb keeps saying it s over tomorrow. he is like baghdad bob. we re winning the war. it was over by thanksgiving and then christmas. you re talking about a political calculation that republicans have made to stand by him no matter what. but there is something more basic than that. they all swear an oath to defend the constitution as the president does. and here we have even mcmaster admits it. but it s been known for a long time, an attack on american democracy. what is the republican response? almost nothing. and of course nothing from donald trump. so we can talk about how he sees
at other facets within the trump orbit, some designed to look strict lg at the social media. he s not did you mean. he s not new at this. this is something he s quite expert at and we re beginning to see all the wheels turning now. so ken vogue yell of the new york times goes out to lunch with a source and imagine his good luck to look over and see not one but two lawyers for the president. many of us, this is the picture he took with his cell phone. that s ty cobb on the right. the one with the handlebar mustache. many of us engaged in some skeptical speculation that maybe these attorneys were mouthing off for ken vogue yell s consumption, having recognized him. it is a question nicolle wallace put to ken during the 4:00 p.m. hour. we ll watch this and dment afterwards. did you ever have a sense that they wanted to be heard? well, that last part first, i
ty cobb delivering accolades, many praise on mcgahn after the fact, saying he s helped me throughout the course. do you buy that? i think that was a little damage control, certainly. the concern among whout counsel and among the chief of staff is ty cobb was being incredibly indiscreet in having this conversation about such sensitive issues in such a public place. i would just add, peter, this was not only at this restaurant, blt steak, that is precisely 171 feet from the new york times d.c. bureau, but in the sidewalk seating area where not just any diner, but any passerby could potentially overhear these guys. cobb himself is a very recognizable guy with the big handlebar mustache. there s the photo you took. he s not inconspicuous at all. the substantive debates and the mistrust, that s what worried don mcgahn and white house
those folks in the white house, they did not think the discussion was a big deal. suggesting the times overhyped the reporting. they did not dispute the chain of infants involved. shepard: captain harris in washington. let s turn it may not be a big deal, alex, but it kind of is, because the presence lawyers speaking about the new york times at a popular restaurant. everyone knows him with a handlebar mustache. speaking of a matter that is confidential is anything known to man. and you know from time and to see, you have to be careful of saying anything anywhere. so-so, it is an interesting story and turn of events. especially when they talk about something so sensitive and so internal as a legal debate about how to perceive with this russian investigation. it does the story really does pull back the curtain and a
sidewalk seating area of this restaurant where passersby, other diners, whomever, servers, could hear them talking about this incredibly sensitive subject. i was actually there meeting a source for lunch. i had my lunch with the source, we noticed these two guys who we instantly recognized. cobb is obviously very easy to recognize with that trademark bushy handlebar mustache. so i m talking to my source and my source gets up to leave and i say, you know what, i m just going to hang out here for a little bit. as i sat by myself at this table taking notes on my iphone, they proceeded to discuss the most sensitive of this sensitive area in a way that was very easily audible to me and allowed for us to get at some of these issues that we kind of suspected were already in play with the legal team, that is this question over to what extent to try to assert