subsequently this tweet. so well, the president made remarks, i would expect in response to this reporting to say that again inspector mueller appears to be going beyond the confines of his initial purpose for his investigation, which many conservatives like myself initially supported, but appears he is going far beyond the bounds of his duty. as far as the president s tweet now, there is considerable evidence that the fisa court and this entire witch hunt began with the steele dossier, which was unverified, paid for and financed by the hillary clinton campaign. that disclosure was not made. steele at the time was leaking to the press, despite the fbi telling him not to. also unrelated but also i have to push back on prior guest saying that doj is above partisanship. loretta lynch said don t talk about the hillary clinton matter, call it a matter, don t call it investigation. that s partisanship by the obama
he s going to tell bob mueller s team that kmous communications director hope hicks said that donald trump jr. s emails about the controversial june 2016 trump tower meeting quote will never get out. how do you interpret that, carrie. i heard what hope hicks lawyer said which was that she did not use that language. i think it will come down to a matter of, do we believe in due process, if she did make these statements that may have obstructed justice? the truth will come out. i do believe that that is the case. i think that inspector mueller is a thorough individual. i think that you know looking at hope hicks, she has every right to defend herself. i think that s what s being lost here. that there is a rush to judgment. so i mean that s, the truth will come out and i think that she, you know she, she is the communications director, but at the end of the day, the campaign was donald trump, that was how he won. i think that these individuals who have been identified
well, my hope is that i will see in 2018 a focus on substance, a focus on policy, i like to see a lot of this noise behind us. i m glad to see inspector mueller, it appears he will be wrapping up his investigation. he has made arrests. he s made indictments. and these are all good things to hold people accountable for actions that were happening either after the campaign or happened before affiliation with trump. so i think that that s part of why the president feels very confident when he gave that interview with the new york times to say, you know, the people who are in my orbit have been held accountable. i would like to see this wrapped up. ied with like to focus on issues like welfare reform, like criminal justice reform. that s my hope for 2018. matt, your predictions? what are you watching, would expect to see? i would like to see more bipartisanship, but my expectation is it s going to be worse than 2017. i think the mueller investigation may wrap up in 2018, but it s c
and even the president said himself that inspector mueller needs to be independent and to come to the conclusions here truth will prevail. and i think the truth is prevailing. in fact the president said in his interview what this investigation has shown there were democrat collusion, that s what the new york times reporter admitted in the interview as well. the podesta group collapsed with these revelations as well as the problems with the dossier. so i think the base is frustrated with the lack of substance. and 2018 and new year s eve resolution, let s focus on substance. before we get to that, and it was interesting to read the transcript from this interview, because it really was revealing in terms of the president s thinking. no aides, no advisers, trump unfiltered. i mean, is this what we get in lieu of that end of year news conference, instead of president sitting down for 30 minute impromptu interview with the
from donald trump. i see that as a problem. rick: if terry mccall i have gives a lot of money to this guy s wife and he is in charge of the clinton investigation, i can see where some people might have an issue with that. sure, not to mention there are text messages showing partisan bias against the president from other employees of the f.b.i. so yes, i want inspector mueller to have all the power that he needs to conduct a full and fair investigation. but the president has the right to a full and fair investigation as well. i think that it s very much within his rights to call into question the conflict of interest here in the name of ethics and good governance. rick: that brings into question what impact might this potential retirement actually have on the investigation? i think the best thing the president can do is to get out of the way and stop the narrative of vilifying the