the president is going to have to address it, it s going to see how he s going to explain it and how believable it was. we don t know what it means, but on its base level, as you said is fascinating, this incredibly surprising look, the president said he was coming to washington to drive a wrecking ball through a lot of things, so to that exte extent, i m not surprised. but there s disdain for some of the forms of diplomacy. that s not what this is. this is an active investigation and he has been either unable to or unwilling to mod late his behavior accordingly. and again, matt, as we mention, it can t be lost that this story came out right after the president took off this afternoon. can you tell me about the timing of this release, it s just
made a joke that he was the only person the russian ambassador had not reached out for a meeting, why didn t you call me? he talked about his crowd size. he talked to the russians about his crowd size at the inauguration? just in general about his crowd size? i mean, look, a lot of this is stuff that he s not saying much there that he hasn t said public publicly, but he is saying it there in the oval office what two russian officials. and calling the fbi director a nut job. glen fresh and i reported that right after comey was fired, that the president had said that there was something wrong with him or words to that effect. you can have two interpretations of this, you can hear it as adding to the sense that the president fire comey because he was trying to end this investigation, which the president has denied.
about you could look at the appointment of a special counsel as almost an opportunity for this president to say, you know what? that s the investigation, it s ongoing, i m focussing on the agenda, and here we are. it was an opportunity for him to do that, because things move so fast these days, that actually he could have done that, but actually he can t stop talking about it. when he feels aggrieved, he fix ates on things, and it becomes cyclical and he literally can t stop talking about this. reaction from cnn s sarah murray at the white house. the president left for an eight-day trip just as this story broke, is any information coming out at all from air force one? reporter: as matt pointed out, we would all like to know what s happening on that plane, i imagine the president is doing a little bit more venting about how this russia story will not
unamerican, i m not saying that s my word, that was the word they used. i don t think there s a universality of opinion here and we don t really know how this plays. i do think he s correct that because there s a lot of information coming out at high speed are tuning out russia. how can you be considered elitist, if you just talk about taking a dump on national tv. dumping documents is what i was talking about. the whole nut job thing, that s perhathat e that s he s saying that the investigation is over, and he s now free, there s another quote in your story where he says i m not now under investigation. that s not what he says, he says i m not under investigation. i want to be clear on that
there is no illegality after all of this, republicans can rightly say our agenda has been derailed, there s been all this focus on this and there s no there there. we re at the beginning of an investigation and we don t know which way it s going to do and if it turns out that there are no prosecutions, it will not be as damaging as it appears now. but let me just correct one thing that jeff just said, not every president researches impeachment. not barack obama, not george w. bush. i said they should. no, they shouldn t. nobody was going to impeach, george w. bush. no one is going to impeach barack obama. the possibility of impeachment now exists for donald trump. it s unlikely, but lawyers are paid to worry and it s appropriate for them to two some preliminary research, it doesn t mean he s going to be impeached.