mcmaster. they are all gone. should we be inspired by those words? you know, another word we did not hear when the president was asked, we did not hear, no, i m not going to fire him. the president was careful in how he answered the question. he brought this thing back up after several months of not speaking to reports that he was considering firing mueller when he started asking his supporters and people around him what do you think i should do in the cabinet meeting. he talked about the fact that people were telling him he should fire robert mueller. that is president trump s way of saying, you know what? i would like to fire him. i would like to fire him. let s see what everybody thinks first. that is a classic trumpism. i don t think we can rule out him firing mueller. he doesn t hesitate to do the things that might cause him political damage down the line. he can be impulsive.
there is nothing inheritally wrong with him. it has to do with the fact ihe s a hawk on foreign policy and he is projecting american strength. rand paul is a non interventionist. we have yet to hear from key republicans that could put pompeo over the top. david, thank you. a long time lawyer for donald trump warning the president to be careful about his fixer michael cohen. jay goldberg who negotiated the trump divorces says he received a call for advice from the president last friday. he predicted cohen would cooperate with prosecutors. goldberg says the warning was met with silence. goldberg advised the president not to speak to the special counsel.
no collusion. no collusion with russia other than by the democrats or as i call them the obstructionists. so we are hopefully coming to the end. it is a bad thing for our country. very bad thing for our country. very, very bad thing. there has been no collusion. they won t find any collusion. it is not uncommon for the president to contradict himself. this one pretty remarkable. yesterday, the president tweeted slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the russia investigation. where, by the way, there was no collusion. less than a year earlier, the president told nbc s lester holt the opposite. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said,
fire mueller or rosenstein? he should be. he talked about the fact that people were telling him he should fire robert mueller. we know a lot of team in trump s orbit outside of the white house have been urging him to fire robert mueller and move against deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. that would be the first step toward getting rid of mueller. it is trump himself who raised the issue. as you noted, the president disputes reports of thinking of canning somebody only to can them a couple of weeks or months later. i suppose the timing is his way of getting away of saying it is fake news. reports were accurate. we know the investigation frustrates him. you can see that. interestingly enough, i spoke to the president s allies yesterday. david and corey. they are urging him not to fire robert mueller. let the investigation run its cour course as long as it doesn t run too long. the fact he is considering it?
contradict himself. this one is getting a lot of attention. yesterday, the president tweet ed this statement. yesterday, the president tweeted slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the russia investigation. where, by the way, there was no collusion. less than a year earlier, the president told nbc s lester holt the opposite. regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. it s an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. after the tweet, comey said on abc s the view he takes the president at his original word that the russia probe was his motivation. i have seen the tweet. both of those things can t be true. that illustrates part of the problem i m trying to bring up. it matters the president is not committed to the t