Truth. Those facts. This is so far off field, this is ispolitical. This is totally political. And it is a dangerous moment for our country that the doj has i mean, doesnt the meeting on the tarmac with bill clinton and the airplane look quaint now . Actually, thats a perfect it looks quaint. We have been talking about what feels like a frantic publicrelations effort. Two statements released from william barr on a report hes had for some time. An extraordinary report about ao open,t ongoing investigation. Some of the most sensitive intelligence and Law Enforcement in our country. And now, guess whos weighing in . Guess. Guess. Guess. Donald j. Trump. Lets listen. Okay. Thank you very much. The ig report just came out. And i was just briefed on it and its a disgrace whats happened with respect to the things that were done to our country. It should never again happen to another president. It is incredible. Far worse than i would have ever thought possible. And its its an embarrassment to
the point that some former obama staffers are going why would you allow president trump to get a win in the battle ground states in an election year? steve: well, when it goes to the astronaut, which will be next year. so it won t pass congress this year. brian: unless mitch mcconnell comes around on it. steve: he said yesterday he was not going to take it up before 2020. here s the thing there are a number of republican senators who have a problem swosm the organized labor components to it. nonetheless, gigantic win for donald trump. whether it happens this year or next year. there is a disconnect according to mollie hemingway. watch this. there is this huge disconnect between the impeachment messaging that remove this president immediately because is he such a threat and gave him such a win. also an issue clearly impeachment is happening not because it s genuinely popular because the base demands it. do this impeachment completely impotent because it s going nowhere in the senate a
as well. joined the president s team as sort of this impeachment messaging strategist here at the white house to communicate on that front. kelly anne conway, a long-time top advisor to president trump. both railing against the doj ig report you ve been discussing. then it went back to the president. he s still speaking about education in the tape that s playing back. but i want to tellio you what h said because he called this report, in hisau view, an attempted overthrow of the government. he talkedd about how it is far worse than he could have imagined. and he also, to the point that you and your your guests on set were making earlier said he didg very explicitly. he is looking forward to the durham investigation coming out because he believes that it s going to reveal, in his words, information plus plus. so there is obviously some anticipation on the part of the president regarding that. i will say thatth we ve been talking about specifically the impeachment piece of this and w
lipman, also presidential sis toirn jeffrey engel. thanks for coming on late to join us here. daniel, we ve got a couple of biggens withes coming in the next few day. you ve got marie yovanovitch. you ve got david holmes. he heard the call. you ve got an omg official on saturday. what s happening is the democrats methodically building a case, they hope, to show that there was bribery here, the new word they re using. yeah, they think that quid pro quo didn t test great in terms of impeachment messaging and that it might be a little too complicated. they don t want to hang their entire case on a latin phrase. everyone know what is bribery is instead. and with the ousted u.s. ambassador, she is seen as a crucial witness because she can
evening, president trump refused to answer questions about impeachment. he s portrayed himself as a one- man war room as he battles democrats trying to oust him from office. i m the team. reporter: but now cbs news has learned that former florida attorney general pam bondi and former treasury spokesman tony sayegh are expected to join the white house and help the president with impeachment messaging. america s for trump and so am i. reporter: bondi is a longtime political ally of president trump, who has even appeared alongside him at white house events. sources tell cbs news the white house is also decided to have government lawyers handle the president s legal defense. during the special council investigation, the president relied on the team of outside personal attorneys, including rudy giuliani, to represent him in the criminal investigation and on television. today the president praised the attorney who will be leading the impeachment defense effort, white house counsel pa