obama administration. there was a lot of pressure and request for him, why isn t he speaking out, why isn t he doing more? charlie: he never did that. he was classy through to the very end. dana: the only time i think there was feeling like he should was really when president obama had started the idea of going after the cia interrogators and he was going to prosecute them. it didn t end up happening. he worked behind the scenes. jesse: maybe he was talking about angela merkel. she regretted her immigration stance when she let all the migrants and our country and she s under a lot of pressure over there. it s not just if you want immigration controls and sovereignty. he doesn t necessarily mean you are a racist. charlie: i find that to be the most appalling part of his comments. you remember the thing obama used her talk about when he in 08, he would talk about how republicans had wrecked the car, the economy, which is the car. now they were standing around on the side of th
depending on who they were embarrassing. as we all know they released a whole lot of e-mails along the way that world leaders had about each other and great embarrassment on the world stage. but, again, republicans and democrats equally cursed and praised them depending on who s ox they were goring. i think, in this situation, what the trump people were saying, and i d say the general population was, well, if hillary clinton is saying she s destroyed her e-mails or if the fbi isn t going to release her e-mails or whatever happened to them, maybe wikileaks is the source to go to. and, indeed, they turned out to be the ones drip, drip, drip, that put out the e-mails that i do think had some influence on the campaign. however, let me answer your question but still no 30,000 e-mails by the way. no one has recovered or seen or put out 33,000 e-mails. but i think to answer to it, i think this is all so complicated at this point, and there is some investigation
will decide about the legal ramifications but it should be politically unacceptable for any campaign do such a thing. jack, what s your reaction? i think wikileaks is a little bit like james comey. both parties have cussed them depending on who they were embarrassing. as we all know they released a whom lot of e-mails along the way that world leaders had about each other and great embarrassment on the world stage. but, again, republicans and democrats equally cursed and praised them depending on who s ox they were are going. gorg. i think if hillary clinton is saying she s destroyed her e-mails or if the fbi isn t going to release her e-mails or whatever happened to them, maybe wikileaks is the source to go to. and, indeed, they turned out to be the ones drip, drip, drip, that put out the e-mails that i think did have some influence on the campaign. but still no 30,000 e-mails
voters as something less than so fist indicated. and that s not the media s job. using his words. so when he s out there defend, by the way, he s defending the electoral majority that brought limb into the white house. so we shouldn t put his own words on tv. you should always used them in the proper context and understand what he s doing. what is the context of say ing bs or mocking the reporter? what s the context of that? well, the context is the american public is frustrated with washington, d.c., they think it s broken. they think the last 30 years has failed a lot of these communities in washington i don t understand, brian, i don t want to be rude but i don t understand what that has to do with him saying nasty things and mocking people and coming up with nicknames. what does that have to do with that? if the press points that out, how is that getting the perception wrong? how is that portraying him in a negative light? isn t he doing in essence, doing that to
how is that getting the perception wrong? sthu portraying him in a negative light? isn t he doing, in essence, doing that to himself? if he didn t want that perception out there, then he wouldn t do it. i think what you have is sort of two parallel tracks here. have you him manifesting the frustration of the country sch what he s doing and he s speak the language of the americans with the frustrations with washington, d.c. and you re trying to layer another compon nentd on here that s sort of less than so he 50 indicated. i don t see a lot of people mocking reporters with disabilities and calling people funny names a lot, but that s just me. scott, you don t get a chance to get in i m sorry because we re way into the next show. i go have to say to you, happy birthday in beena hour or so. and angela as well, happy birthday to both uh. i ll see you next time. thanks, don. this is cnn tonight i m don lemon it s a little past 11:00. we re learning that last summer during the campai