This was the last day before the Trump Presidencys 100th day. And congress put in less than half a day because there is no trump agenda item alive in congress right now. There is no bill moving anywhere in congress now. No legislative vehicle that is a trump agenda item. We have never seen a 99th day like this for a president. Every president s busiest legislative year is the first year. Its when their power of persuasion over the congress is at its highest. And it only goes down after that. What a president accomplishes in his first year is usually most of what the president will accomplish in his first term. This is so clear historically that when bob woodward chose to write a book entitled the agenda, he decided to focus entirely on a president s first year. And he picked a president with a loaded first year agenda, bill
clinton. At this point in bill clintons first year, the congress was working overtime. At the same time, congress was working on nafta, a giant tax bill which was i
is what his attorney said. i m no lawyer. i don t play one on television, but it s absurd. it s absolutely absurd. it s also fiction. right. there s absolutely nothing nowhere is the written that the president cannot be investigated. can t be indicted. the justice department guidelines is they can t be indicted but investigated is different. those are justice department interpretations. those are guidelines. there is no law. by the way, it s never been tested in court. someone should and you can see, i think, some judges are raising questions as to whether or not this actually should stand. look, we ve never had a situation like this where a president is essentially inviting, right, someone to test this. so i think that s the big question right now. you can t let a justice department rule essentially become law just like that. i agree with evan s analysis but if you re talking about a federal crime, yes, the olc memo
politicians declassifying documents for political reasons. it s very dangerous and we shouldn t allow it to happen. and even if you could acknowledge that perhaps stumbling with the israeli intelligence given was a rookie error about such things perhaps, here you have, elliot, the president basically concluding that there was treason. i mean a capital offense which that isn t the definition of treason. i m not a lawyer. i don t play one on television. he has made a conclusion. the white house press secretary doesn t walk away from that by saying this will be a fair investigation. i can t remember if it was the president or the white house press secretary saying we want to let him do his job. they don t because they decided what the outcome ought to be. we are going to let congress, a
time again many of these cases involve officer-created jeopardy. as we have this discussion we need to insist that prosecution includes an examination of the deviations from police protocol, from policy, from tactics, all those deviations when you add them up and you examine them and you delve deeply into them will put the prosecution in a position to establish some kind of criminal conduct. up until now what we have is an examination of the victim s background in life and whether or not we re in many ways putting the victims on trial. eugene, i like mark am not a lawyer and i don t play one on television, but the fact is that the laws give too much room i think one of the things we raised in 2014 at the big march in washington was dealing with the federal laws on civil rights, i m talking about national action network, naacp
mueller, he is also tweeting about apprenticeships and other things, but this is very news worthy. these are statements by the president of the united states. he is also attacking hillary clinton in a campaign that i think ended putting aside he can t let the election go, i think the reason you re covering the tweets is because it is highly unusual for a president being investigated to be making comments about an active investigation. normally a lawyer would quash all of that. the guidance is for what he has been doing, but the president keeps stepping on that and digging himself deeper and deeper which is not just a big public relations problem, but a legal problem for him. i m not a lawyer, i don t play one on television, but when you consult the lawyers, they would tell you that every tweet