the server hack claims. don lemon is standsing don lemon is standing by. i mean, look, you can t make it up. the timing is there. the fbi stepped up. here s what bothers me. he spent so much time taking a sledgehammer to the fbi that now, when they say we have no proof it was the chinese, what do people think? ah, well, the hardcore supporters are going to think what the president says. most people know better in this country. they know better. they believe our intelligence agencies. here s this is what this is what really flummoxed me all the time is the president has access to the best intelligence in the world and people around him. he did the same thing last week with the white farmers, you see that? the white farmers in south africa. totally wrong, totally bogus story. wiretapped trump tower, totally
this has had a real impact on his numbers. but to a certain extent, trump has alienated a lot of people. the people who are left are probably really his hardcore supporters. shepard: we mentioned the town halls and how they re going. the democrats believe that they need well, it s clear the democrats need more than a couple seats to flip to take control of the house of representatives is. there evidence from these town hall meetings that this is part of a pattern going on or an isolated incident or how would you categorize it? clearly there s a number of town halls for republican senators and members of the house that have been rough, shall we say, clearly people have been shutting them down. it s been very similar to what we saw democratic lawmakers facing in 2010 before they were sort of hit by a wave and a lot of them were knocked out of office. there s no guarantee yet that republicans will face the same thing, a long time to go before november 2018.
three weeks now, i guess. and already we re at the point where the president is saying that he and his staff are, you know, bad people, conflicted people, and the surrounding media industrial complex are already trying to, you know, gather dossiers of dirt, what they consider to be dirt, that is the past campaign contributions to democrats and so forth about specific staff hires in an effort to soften up that investigation to portray it as illegitimate and biased sot that even before mueller is able to find out anything about what happened and present his conclusions, it will be seen as illegitimate and not credible, at least among the president s hardcore supporters. and i talked to a trump confidant outside the white house yesterday who compared mueller to jim comey. said he s really no different, he s someone who likes being seen as elevated in the public square, but is just as political. i said, you got to be kidding
about more shoes to drop, but with all these e-mails still possibly to come out from wikileaks, how concerned are you of what s in them and whether that s going to it s a nothing i m not really concerned about the e-mails. it seems like to me the kremlin s last paycheck to wikileaks must have bounced. no, seriously, because they ve not been effective at all. i m not worried about that especially when you compare it to someone who s a sexual predator, right, who s been on tape saying the ugly, disgusting things that he does to women because, quote/unquote, he s a celebrity. by the way, last night he said he hadn t done any of those things. well, good took a couple days to figure that out. took a couple days. we still have the tape, right? the tape is still there for us to view. but look, here s what s happening, anderson. the republican party is being taken over by the far right. that s what we saw last night from donald trump s performance. it was breitbart.com, right?
throughout the election, he didn t do anything without consulting with the hierarchy of the muslim brotherhood. the question is is he really going to attempt to be a reformer or will he be beholden to the hardcore supporters? it s easy to talk about national unity now and bikinis and beer, the question will be in the days and weeks and months to come, those who represented him will expect him to deliver on what he said he would do. what he will do, we re not sure. on behalf of steve, we find it easy to talk about bikinis and beer, that s what i like to talk about any time of the day. i don t know he campaigned on that. next time you win if you do, just my advice. straight ahead, a good severely sunburned at school because the school wouldn t allow sunscreen without a doctor s note. where s the common sense there? entitlements practically bankrupted our nation and the next guest knows why. the government is fudging the numbers and he has the proof and the fudge! hi, i m phil micke