intrigue as his presidency is. the perception that the president may have ordered these strikes in part because of scandal will affect the impact and effectiveness of these military strikes. howie: i respect rachel maddow. as a commentator she can say what she wants. but to say that on the air while military personnel were at risk and missiles were being fired. guy: this was a planned attack in concert with two top u.s. allies in response to a very specific terrible criminal action by a foreign regime. to go the wag the dog route to me is so silly. if president trump was able to convince theresa may and
wildly different opinion about whether this is the right thing to do. howie: by and large the mainstream media approved of the attacks. it s the partisans on the left and right who were picking it apart. guy: that s true. but this some crossover. some on the left and right questioning his legal authority to do this. generally when the media sees a limited airstrike against one who used chemical weapons against children, that s not going to be terribly controversial like so many other things are. so we are all screaming at each other and there are acts of war going on over which there is some consensus at least. howie: would some liberal
adrienne: james comey has wanted everybody for so long to believe he held the fbi in the highest standards and was an independent thinker and looking at the rule of law. but this book undermines this because he talks about donald trump s spray tan and donald trump s marriage to melania and whether that was a good marriage. howie: i want to play a couple sound bites from the abc interview airing in prime time tonight. did you tell him the steele dossier was financed by his political components. it wasn t necessarily my goal. it was to alert him that we had this information. gillian: on the question of whether there were any bom
peeing on each other in moscow in 2013. it s possible, but i don t know. we got you be pleasant opinions of the president by james comey. but in terms of hard facts, people are talking about bombshells and there are none. what surprises me is how bitchy the book is. james comey is a liar and cnn are a bunch of perverts. that s the bombshell. howie: do you see any bombshells in this book? and by hitting back and calling comey a slime ball did he help comey sell 100,000 copies on amazon? gillian: probably. but in terms of the american people and democracy, the understanding i have is that
possibly a child resulting from an affair. howie: this does fit the way the parent company blames his area for all the attention paid to a decision not to publish the story. when the doorman is contacted he says my time is valuable. what s your offer. there were all kinds of things we couldn t get to this week. mark zuckerberg testifying about facebook, and the mike pompeo hearings. continue the conversation on twitter @howardkurtz and go to our home page. it s a new design and you can