launders well, let s just start there. one of one of the bannon quotes that got a lot of attention, and people are still talking about is this one. steve bannon seemed to understand the severity of staffing choices by robert mueller, warning there was one clear direction they would take. saying, quote, you ve got the lebron james of money laundering investigations on you, jervanka. you realize where this is going. this is all about money laundering. their path to [ bleep ]ing trump goes right through paul manafort and jared kushner. it s as plain as a hair on your face. they re going to roll those two guys up and say play me or trade me. your thoughts? first of all, is this the bomb cyclone or is that something else? that s tomorrow. this is the cyclone before the cyclone. okay. because we re not sure what s hitting washington tonight. but on this issue of moneylaundering, to your point,
or do they belong to donald trump, if this continues to be a messy breakup? well, some of them will stay with steve bannon. this was always a marriage of convenience. you know, look. the president has the lowest approval numbers of any president this early in his term. some of the lowest numbers in the history of polling for any president. as we move into a 2020 election cycle, you know, if he s at 32%, 33% of the support, and 6% goes with steve bannon, it pulls donald trump potentially into the 20s, which is absolutely disabling for any conceivable chance of re-election. not to mention, when you look at the terrain for 2018, you know, there are very, very ominous warnings for the republican majority in washington, d.c., because, you know, upwards of about 70% of the country is just unalterably opposed to what they re seeing in the white house.
the trump organization and the kushner organization and the russian federation. noting that the key point of vulnerability for all of them are the financial ties, and i think it points up to this larger issue, which is that, yes, we know mueller is investigating russian propaganda, russian hacking and russian agents of influence, but there s this fourth pillar to the mueller investigation, which is long-standing ties between donald trump and the russia federation, to find out where russia might have leverage on the current president of the united states. according to this book trump s decision to fire james comey changed the tone in the white house interest the worst, saying, quote, the president seemed to find himself inkrejual las eby comey and mueller. in the instance of comey and mueller beyond all the dodging and weaving, there really wasn t anybody other than the president s family who didn t
the risk of perjuring themselves and tell the truth. that s right. if you look at steve bannon and saying the meeting in trump tower, it s almost certain that don junior took her up stairs to meet with donald trump, sr., whether that happened or not he s going to want to talk with him. when you see the soepokesman saying he believes that meeting is obstruction of justice, that s someone bob mueller is going to want to talk to. if he hasn t already. and when you look at the rivalries, the fact you have people on the president s team talking about each other, disparaging each other, disparaging the president, they clearly are not all pulling in the same direction. michael wolff, all he was doing was going around asking questions. he has none of the investigative techniques that bob mueller and
suggested that people often compare disastrous campaigns or white houses to the titanic, and they suggest efforts to pa legislation as moving the chairs around. he says this is the first political operation where you could suggest it s like the titanic but instead of moving the chairs around they re eating each other. it s basically cannibalism aboard the titanic as its sinking. can you speak the fact these are people who do not trust each other, and are so brazen and disrespectful not just to the president they serve but to the office of the presidency? well, the year has been every day a debasement of the office of the president of the united states by this president, by his staff with the consistency of the lying, the misinformation,