The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Giving this story way, way, way too much oxygen. Okay. The tweets that hes been doing brooke on mueller, on the witchhunt, on, you know, the democrats working for robert mueller, which is by the way not it is a red herring, that is not something the people working around the president on strategy are concerned with. This crossed the line. Specifically on the piece regarding getting dirt on a political opponent, this to you. The president saying its politics, everyone does it but federal law makes it a crime for any person to solicit accept a contribution for a u. S. Political campaign or for the purpose of influencing any action for federal office. What is the trump Tower Meeting peter against the law even though as they say they didnt actually get anything on her, the fact that that was the
intent. I would say they are all, everyone who participated in that meeting has a great deal of legality jeopardy. And certainly in t
united states humiliates, berates i hate that. i hate that. talks so awful about the sitting attorney general of the united states. yeah, i you know, some of these quotes from the president, whether he says it publicly or tweets about it yeah. are simply you know, senator, jeff sessions. yeah, whatever you think about jeff, he s a good man. if you don t want him to be your attorney general, you have a right to replace him, but you re going to have to replace him with somebody who gets confirmed. nobody s going to how do you explain that he berates his own attorney general, repeatedly, almost day after day after day. it s awful. he does it with everybody. he went after the pope. he goes after me. but here s what i would say. i would is this a stable individual who does that to the sitting attorney general of the united states? i think most americans believe that he was the answer better than hillary clinton. well, she got 3 million more votes. i
republicans peeling off, but they re not going to do it of their own accord right now precisely for the reason that you re talking about, jeff, which is that they re afraid. they re afraid of donald trump because his popularity within the party is isn t that admirable? no, as i say, they re lagging indicators. they re not leaders. they re not leaders. john kennedy wrote a book called profiles in courage and they were all a long time ago because you don t see much of it now. the remainder of this article says there are a lot of officials in the administration who get hammered by the news media but they are really doing a lot to protect the american people from this president. right. i take that writer at their word that they sincerely are trying to raib ein in the president s t excesses. if what they re writing, yes, it s true, it s a good thing there are some people there to rein in the president but to jeffrey s point though, who did
the president on that? here s what i saw. i saw the president because some people, some legal experts have already suggested, already suggested that that and i ll read the tweet to you, to remind you what the president said. two long running obama era investigations of two very popular republican congressmen have brought to a well publicized charge just ahead of the midterms by the jeff sessions justice department. too easy wins, now in doubt because there is not enough time. good job, jeff. ahead of the midterms is the key deal here. and i don t know what the laws of those states are about replacing somebody, but i think the beef of the president is that these were prosecutions brought very close to an election and there s been a general view not to do that. you know, we re talking about chris collins of new york, duncan hunter of california. the first and the second republicans to members of congress i m not saying they re above the law. to support the preside
completely subservient to trump. they haven t held any oversight hearings. they haven t the only people who ever criticize them, we wear out poor old jeff flake and cordor because they are leaving, they re not running for re-election. anybody who is running for re-election is terrified of trump. john boehner said the other day, this isn t the republican party anymore, it s the trump party. richard burr, the chairman of the senate intelligence committee, has worked closely with mark warner. they are investigating a lot of this. they haven t stopped as the house intelligence committee has done. take your point. one senator. members of congress are lagging indicators. they re not leaders like they used to being so if there is a blue wave, for example, in the house of representatives and trump loses, you know, 50 or 60 seats and if there seems to be some trouble in the senate, then i think in their own self interest, in their own self interest you might see