mexico will pay for the wall. mexico will pay for the wall. believe me. so much of what donald trump says is a variation on that, a complete fantasy or an outright lie that he knows is untrue. and i believe that s what we re dealing with in a breitbart interview yesterday where the president said something that many people have now interpreted as threatening a coup, a foreshadowing that he will not leave office if he is impeached or defeated in his re-election campaign. i can tell you, i have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the bikers, for trump. i have the tough people. but they don t play it tough until they go to a certain point and then it would be very bad. very bad. now, i don t actually believe the president was threatening a coup or an armed insurrection of some kind in support of trump as president for life.
state of colorado, the denver post that shocked everybody by endorsing him thinking he would be a constitutional conservative has withdrawn and said it was a mistake because obviously corey gardener cares more about the second branch of government than the first. and joy, you have lamar alexander voting against the president, he s not running for reelection in tennessee. i guess we don t know what he would have done if he was running for reelection and susan collins who is running for e reelection in main and she voted against the president. how do you read the susan collins vote? susan collins is in trouble. they are probably the two republicans in the biggest trouble in terms of their reelect. i see susan collins sort of desperately trying to figure out this sort of line that she has to walk between being trump enough to prevent herself from getting primaried but also seeming like a normal republican enough to get reelected. i don t see how either of them get back in. they can
reelection should have to answer for that. joy reed, thank you for starting us off tonight. cal perry, thank you for your input. we need that in this conversation and senator, great to have you on a night when there is big action in the united states senate. really appreciate you being here. when we come back, frer msh congresswoman ianna will join us and we ll be joined with reaction to new information about another possible obstruction of justice by president trump and today donald trump criticized beto o rourke s hand gestures and we will do and we ll also study donald trump s hand gestures and at the end of the hour, i ll discuss something i ve been very reluctant to discuss but become a larger worry from some people since michael cohen said this. there will never be a peaceful transition of power.
alexander voting against the president, he s not running for reelection in tennessee. i guess we don t know what he would have done if he was running for reelection and susan collins who is running for e reelection in main and she voted against the president. how do you read the susan collins vote? susan collins is in trouble. they are probably the two republicans in the biggest trouble in terms of their reelect. i see susan collins sort of desperately trying to figure out this sort of line that she has to walk between being trump enough to prevent herself from getting primaried but also seeming like a normal republican enough to get reelected. i don t see how ooeeither of th get back in. they can get in the good graces of modern republicans. i think about pat toomy. the problem is this is not a conservative republican party. it s the party of trump. it s a personality colt and you get with the colt or get out of congress. cal perry, you re at the
ick. nice world we live in. that s what this presidency covering our national politics now feels like covering like our cane scandals, this is our white house now. this is our national politics. abc news reports tonight that donors to president trump s e reelection campaign have surprised been paying for something they might not have known they were paying for, the trump reelection tap pain campaign is tapped by jared kushner to help pay for legal fees. presumably jared kushner could afford to pay for his own lawyers himself but why bother when you can have the little people pay those bills for you? jared kushner is the son and