allegations but if they prove to be true, and after president trump held on the scott pruitt, it goes back to what president trump said during the campaign. that was the platform on which he ran. voters when they head to the hall, is there any concern. chris collins, you have to investigation swirling around him, is there any worry about that republicans will be painted with a broader brush? that s something they will make sure voters a hearing. how much it will matter to them remains to be seen but i know and we see that republican voters want outsiders and we expect that in november. that s for sure. courtney kube, fantastic reporting as always. really appreciate it. and we will be right back with what our sources are saying and today s big picture. stay with us.
it is so depressing to see our worst fears start to be realized. you know, at the beginning of the trump presidency, we were told so frequently, just give him a chance, it s your own bias, just give him a chance, you seem that you want him to fail. so people tried to give him a chance. i m sorry, look at where that has gotten us. it s gotten us to the point of creeping authoritarianism, corruption, nepotism with his own family, the russian investigation swirling. this is creeping authoritarianism. european leaders report in the washington post there s overwhelming anxiety that has a profound impact on what our european friends think he thinks about them. the consequences are disastrous for economic security and national interests. this is somebody that you read about and think about and talk
we ll get to that next. plus, with the investigation swirling around him, trump says a decision whether to strike syria could come soon but it s coming at a time when trump is under siege politically, legally whatever. constitutionally and even his allies say he s at his most impullive right now. much more from former fbi director james comey as a new book a higher loyalty. there are new details about his interactions with the president. as i said tonight, comey has thrown the book at this president. faen, let me finish tonight with trump watch. this is hardball where the action is. i m your phone, stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hide-n-seek. cold. warmer. warmer. ah boiling. jackpot. and if you ve got cut-rate car insurance, you could be picking up these charges yourself. so get allstate, where agents help keep you protected from mayhem.
second, ashleigh banfield? so technical, right? we have this whole mueller investigation swirling over here. now you have not one, not two, but three women, three separate allegations, three separate court cases all facing donald trump. how extraordinary is that? so far. this could be giving people a lot of, you know, pause to think it s time for me to go after my nda as well. you might see this happen again. as michael schwartz said this is par for the course. everybody has ndas. perhaps that s how president trump did business on a regular basis. maybe there are other women. we ve seen the other allegations, right, from all the other women prior to the campaign. can i mention as well, prior to the campaign, donald trump said he was going to sue every single one of those women that made those allegations. not one. not one lawsuit coming from him. plenty coming from the other side. that s also sort of notable. but you make a really good point. there s a mueller investigation that
interview. he knows things about the investigation that we don t. he s being told attorneys what they re asking x and y and z and what records they re asking for. you get a sense in that interview where he blurts out about selling condos to russians and about how there is nothing wrong with. that about how just open he is there about how he believes jeff session sessions did something unfair to the president. we re at a very interesting moment. what do we make of that? look, i mean, the implication of that part that you just played, right, was that if is that what the president wanted in an attorney general was somebody to come in and protect him from the investigation swirling around him which is such a kind of perversion of the job of attorney general, right, in a kind of, you know, focus on just him which is then the word he used is unfair not to the presidency or the white house or the country but to the president. the constitution or right. and that i think is what i