err. here s our dinner bet. you will never have the democrats make a compelling case to republican ears that this was an abuse of power that rises to the level of impeachment. i m an eternal optimist. if they find high crimes and misdemeanors, i think you will see members move that way. if you don t, it goi s going toa political manure show, as my mother would say. your mother would never say that. i appreciate it as always. like everything else, through the looking glass the president lost in district today. is that a loss? no, says his attorney. it s a win because they got a stay of the decision pending appeal. by the way, that happens a lot. but one of his main counselors says no, i got it wrong and what we re trying to do on taxes, we want to see them, that s wrong. and what s happening with impeachment that s wrong.
just like in the godfather part two. we re in a total mob scenario here. and there is a quality i think, mika, i d just say you saw michael cohen yesterday say this thing where he said to all the republicans on the committee, you are going on the path i went down. you are defending this man for no good reason. it goi it s go corrupt your soul, you re going to do things you re ashamed of. matt gaetz looks just like he s following the michael cohen road map here, which is protect donald trump at all costs and for what? well, the florida bar is looking into it not just for a tweet. he said it before the cameras. he made these leering threats before the cameras and he made them on the house floor. so that little apology 24 hours later is way too little given what he s done and he s done the
enough. if president trump wants to lead to this rhetoric, it goi s goin lead to certainly bad. it hasn t yet but it s going to lead to something terrible happening with the press. words are potentially lethal weapons. at this time, this climate with the ocean of guns that are out there and people s access to weapons, this is a lot more than just playing with fire. i would argue, mike, extraordinarily bad things have happened. you had the synagogue shooting in pittsburgh, a guy talking about donald trump s imagery caravans of migrants entering this country stirring you such hate. you ve had journalists beaten
it goi it s going to be lies and we know it. and the one thing we should keep in mind is that this sort of set piece speech is not donald trump s forte. and he could in the end come off looking not only mendacious but foolish and stiff and this is not what he s really good at. i don t have a good answer. if you re a network president, you ever don t worry about the cat calls from the audience, you don t worry about the most fevered base in america, whether it s on the far left or whether it s on the far right. i mean, we ve heard a lot of people talking, you know, on the democratic side justifying a young democratic congresswoman s falsehoods and saying, well, it comes from her heart.