6th criminals in an effort to stay in sync with voters. and the house speaker sounding positive as the outline of a debt deal emerges. it looks a lot like a traditional give-and-take. rumblings on the right do raise a question whether speaker mccarthy can make a deal and keep his job. and some new and critical reporting about the special counsel s classified documents investigation. among the revelations in the washington post today trump employees move boxes of papers one day before investigators arrive at mar-a-lago and that trump himself produced a dress rehearsal of moving sensitive materials out of sight. a first for up us, though, ron desantis gets pointed and personal criticizing donald trump on a wide array of issues while trying to sell himself at the same time to trump voters as better than the original. it is an understatement to call this new strategy risky, but the florida governor is all in, issuing a statement this morning with links to 11 different thursday
decisions, that does have an impact not only on our readiness but our national security. the question is can the president, can people at the pentagon, can anyone get through i think the person you have to get through, right, is mcconnell. get mcconnell going down the hall and say senator, give us 20 of these, give up important ones, how do we fix this? then you would assume he s going to listen to him, that mcconnell can sway him. certainly in alabama they re not big mitch mcconnell fans there, so that s not going to cause any ripples for him. maybe this ends because he gets a vote in the ndaa or something. even that isn t necessarily something that can happen soon. so could mcconnell talk him out of it, that s probably the fastest way. again, in the conservative media echo chamber he s holding up biden so therefore he thinks he s winning. today 8 1/2 year prison sentence for an oath keeper, jessica watkins an army veteran
president likes to negotiate. just make threats, you know, find the thing that he knows people will respond to, you know, focus in on that, regardless of whether it s actually a policy that s going to be effective. i mean, can mitch mcconnell talk him out of it? i don t know. it s harder once the president has gone out and made such strong public statements like he did in london yesterday. it s a measure, jim, i think of where we are in our politics and the relationship between republicans and the president of the united states, that it s actually news that republican leadership is coming out against tariffs. well, yeah. it s also if this did come to a vote, i think it s the biggest gutcheck of the presidency for republicans. there s almost not a republican in the senate who would not say a tariff is not a tax increase. that goes at the core of what a republican believes in. it s a tax increase that ted cruz said in that meeting it hits your voters directly. if they re forced to
question is will don mcgahn talk him out of it? will general kelly, the white house chief of staff talk him out of it or will he simply go ahead and do it? because if you listen to those comments and we ve only we haven t heard them firsthand but we ve heard them from jim, it sounds like a man who wants to fire robert mueller. i don t know what other interpretation you could make and if that happens we re talking about a constitutional crisis, we re talking about impeachment hitting congress even with a republican congress there will be republicans who want to impeach him to say nothing of virtually every democrat. it sounds, laura, like a president we re only a minute or so away from hearing the president s comments, it sounds like a president not only would like to fire robert mueller but rod rosenstein and maybe jeff sessions as well, the attorney general for recusing himself from this whole russia probe. well, the gulf of mexico know effe