i wish he would learn how to spell the word counsel. he misspells counsel in that tweet, something that s such a focus of his life. you know, a president who s claiming that he has no right to be investigated, that he would pardon himselff convicted, that he can commit an obstruction of justice, that s a president who doesn t understand politics or the law because it s bad politics and bad law to claim such things. steve, remind us why the appointment of the special counsel, bob mueller, is constitutional. sure. so the special counsel was appointed consistent with both the existing statues governing the justice department and with regulations issued by the president me.ral under the poppy, there s already been one court challenge to special counsel mueller s appointment by paul manafort. that was rejected by a d.c. federal judge, amy berman jackson, in a 37-page opinion last month. so this argument is out there, i
arie fleischer that just came in responding to this. he writes, and congress has an absolute right to impeach. this is a foolish side issue. can we all just wai the mueller report, what it has found or not found. what do you make of that response from arie fleischer? i think that s absolutely right. let s just wait and find out what mueller finds out. i talked to a lot of people on both sides of the aisle who have come to this, you know, realization that it s just important to wait, figure out what happened, wait until the investigation is over and then process, you know, the result. arie s right about congress. they re the ones that then make the next step, whatever that step may be. let me ask you about that, earl. the role of congress in all this, now the president has been trying to undermine the special counsel a lot. now he says it s
north koreans will be welcoming bashar al assad as the first foreign visitor to north korea. think about that, the meetings are with vladimir putin, with assad and with president trump. we ought to be very concerned about what the discussions are between putin and north korea. they clearly don t have our interests at stake. they re one of our most important and significant adversaries, now two of them meeting together. so i think there s a lot of reason to be concerned. we want to be sure that the president is not facilitating this new relationship between the russians and the north koreans but this is further evidence why this is very complicated and requires lots of preparation, a real strategy to be developed and an understanding of the history of the peninsula and what the north koreans are really interested in. i m afraid the president hasn t demonstrated a lot of willingness to study and think carefully about these kinds of things and sort of shoots from the hip which can be very
been told is the official stance of the white house. here s what he writes. let s pull up the unconstitutional one. sel is totally of the special unconstitutional. despite that playhe game because i unlike the democrats have done nothing wrong. first of all, the appointment of the special counsel is not unconstitutional. but is this a play to continue to muddy the water, to try to sway public opinion? because we know that among his base and republicans favor for the special counsel in our polling has been declining. there s no question the president think about what we re talking about, the president all morning is basically again saying the president of the united states is above the law and is not required to comply with the constitution or the laws of the united states. that is staggering. then this final tweet that you just referenced is another example of the president attempting to undermine the investigation, to attack the
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