extreme. there s fault on both sides. neil: when you hear the president post the ig report, the whole thing is a shambles, a mess, and this exonerates here, and what do you make of it? doesn t it strike that we cannot believe there are two fbi agents, strzok and page and text messages between them. they re still there and involved as far as we know in the russian probe and seemingly involved in the clinton probe as well. why are they still there? when there s that much bias, everyone on both sides are saying, this is a huge black eye on the fbi. there s so much bias that s already been been out that we see in the text messages. why isn t that ferreted out? they re still running the investigation. neil: you know what s weird for me, when they slammed manafort in prison, i m thinking to myself, he s not a flight risk,
and i m not saying that the north korean leader isn t, but i think it s worth a mention that that guy is dead now. and it s great. the leader the tichl terrorism in pakistan, killed 8,000 last year and attacks against the cia operatives where we lost folks of ours in afghanistan. they got him in the kunar province and his son earlier, a strike against the taliban. neil: this is putting it in perspective. folks, i don t care if you re on the left or right on it, if you make an argument it s better to talk to your enemies than argue with your enemies or saber rattling. and it goes both ways for the republicans lambasting the last president for talking with cuba and the current president trying to do the exact same thing with the north koreans.
poor judgment but as far as their personal opinions are concerned, everybody has an opinion especially in this particular election. extremely provocative. we haven t had a provocative candidate like trump since georgia wallace. the things he said provoked reaction to people. they made a bet on the fact that hillary was going to be elected president and it was a poor bet, spent more time worrying about everybody thought hillary clinton and i m not saying she should or she shouldn t have, everybody thought she should have been president. it wasn t a poor decision, it was comey s action that changed the results. they were both poor candidates. neil: what i want to ask you, trying to get a sense, what was the context for some of the remarks about donald trump besides the fact that they might not have liked him, could give him the benefit of the doubt, could they have had information
who kept calling me larry, that s okay. and everyone was enraged about sitting down with the north korean leader even though when the talks were temporarily canceled they were enraged we weren t talking to the north korean leader and a lot came from the same people who said it was good to talk to even those we might not like because the heads of countries with whom we must be talking, period. and that was fine, or when barack obama reached out to the cuban leader raul castro to normallize relations, even though that was, too, as politics was played, universally panned by republicans and now universally panned by the same democrats who praised talks then and not so much talks with the north koreans. folks, it s very confusing. it s clearly, clearly very political the way it s displayed. isn t it clearly to talk with the leaders, fdr couldn t have asset down with josef stalin and the cubans, we were chatting
existed just against conservatives before and when you watch those kind of media scrums, you realize that they re not looking to get information. this isn t in pursuit of good journalism, this is personal for them. they don t like this man. they don t care how much he gets done for the american people they will never give him credit and that s a sad state for journalism and frankly, and its reflection on democracy. the idea of a free and fair press is paramount to our democracy and we need that. it is healthy to have a really robust press that s fighting for facts, fighting for the truth, revealing key things. this press corps has changed dramatically from focusing on that to focusing on their dislike of this particular president, no matter how much he gets done. neil: they like to point out that the president started it by calling them fake news and they bristle at that, and they re sensitive and we all have feelings. we do. neil: okay. we do. but it s interesting because they don