number one her complaint has been sexist, that was puzzling and number two, she certainly seemed to think she was getting something towards the end of this process that s been pulled back. that s right, susan collins was lionized among one of heroes. she was cheered across the aisle because of her opposition to health care reform. she was cheered after the obamacare repeal failed. she then surprised many on the left who sort of counted on her to oppose this republican measure by instead supporting it. she wanted to strike a deal, wanting to exact a promise some of these obamacare payments would continue as part of the deal that would be done by the end of this year. she said that would be a condition for her support. it looks like she s still suppo supporting it but those payments are not going to be included in
the year end deal. i don t think she like getting played. she had indicated she felt like she was actually one of the driving forces behind this deal getting through. in part, though, it must be said because of the compromises she felt she s not getting. she also objected to one report that used a phrase that she wasn t crying about something. she said, well, you wouldn t say that about a male one of my male colleagues in that case. and perhaps in that one she is correct. this is certainly a movement where feminism is very much at the forefront. the me too reckoning. the me too and everything else, and certainly this struck a cord with her. and it must be noted it does so after a few days after one of her female colleagues, a democrat, kirsten gillibrand was
there who was a peer to mueller, who mueller respected, who they shared a mutual respect. ty cobb, the lawyer in the house with the investigation, they have known each other for three decades socially a bit through work. john dowd, the president s personal lawyer is someone very well-known in these tight white collar legal circles in washington. he did not have a personal relationship with mueller, but again someone mueller knew, respected. they were both marines in vietnam. that was experiences that shaped them greatly. so these were people that the president s longtime lawyer, marc kasowitz, intentionally sought out with one of the qualities was people who could connect and relate to robert mueller. when we talk about these meetings coming up, there s been a lot of back and forth between these lawyers and mueller s
pundits, commentators, you know, they re all calling for it. on the inner circle i personally have not found anyone who thinks that s a possibility. and in fact i get the opposite answer instead, that he will absolutely not fire him. now, everyone s lying to me. but the logic that has been laid out, though, is that, one, well first there s nothing there. so we just want to wrap this up as quickly as possible. but secondly, firing robert mueller would only drag this investigation out. it would only create a political fire storm. he wouldn t only have to fire mueller but fire rob rosenstein. he d have to go to a saturday night massacre style event. they do understand it would be very politically now, trying to discredit his investigation, trying to poke holes in it, i mean that s something i hear not so much within the white house but even within the white house
in the middle east, but not to limit yourself to that one region, what did you make of what you saw and heard today having covered the trump white house? well, there have definitely been several moments with the wow factor in 2017. this was definitely one of them. perhaps when vice president mike pence began with his speech in the cabinet meeting but then of course secretary ben carson was asked to to conclude the introduction of the meeting with pay prayer that also thanked the president for his efforts to ultimately give tax cuts to the american people and help them better their lives. so that certainly began this unusual day in 2017. of course we saw something very similar in june where a cabinet meeting began and president trump asked all the cabinet secretaries to go around and say a few words and every single one of them sort of unleashed this