i point out that when the president called for strikes one year ago, he roundly received support and praise from the international community. could you argue i was part of the voice goading the president into war? probably. but i m illustrating this as the broader point of how you make those calculations. it s a reality that that happened. i don t think there is inherent bias in stating that. howie: i can see where everybody is positive just briefly, the new york times is laying out the dilemma saying the contrast between his man told chest thumping, and his convictions specially after 2001, american involvement in the middle east has cost us a lot in blood and treasure. this is part of his platform. i am going to disentangle us
relationship by having personal dialogues than wailing on him on tv. i don t see how that gets things done. howie: he s getting it from all the sides. conservative commentators say he wasn t fully on board with the trump agenda, and commentators say he enabled trump. mara: it will take time before we decide what his legacy is. he was a reluctant speaker. it was widely thought he would step down after november. he says it s unfair for him to run for reelection because he s going to quit. howie: many in the media, print, web, television, say it s a done deal, democrats are going to take over the house.
emmanuel macron to go along with this howie: he could say i disagree with these airstrikes. but she tide it to the scandal she tied it to the scandals. adrienne: i, too, have a lot of respect for rachel maddow. but i thought it was a reckless approach. and it s the reason people do have mistrust. howie: i will be signing copies of my book tomorrow. when we come back the jim comey book sparks a fierce debate and
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
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