it happens all the time. i was smiling because my producer was reminder me that they were krispy kremes. i m sorry. jim, what about the week? you look at tuesday night s speech, so much a lot of attention on the sort of presidential mode that he seemed to be in. so-called presidential mode. i heard democrats say it was a good performance. what do you think? the bigotry of low expectations or whatever the phrase is comes to mind. the bar was set so low that sure he exceeded it, the fact of the matter, it was the same harsh rhetoric wrapped up in a more gauzy riff of type of language in a majestic setting. and of course, as we re now discussing just 24 hours after that. you know, the good feelings were gone and they re back to trying to defend their relationship with the russians. you know, this thing is not ending. it s not going anywhere any time soon. and these guys going to have to get to the bottom of it because
complied with law. but a perception problem, no? let s lots of perception problems. i think the fact the real issue is whether or not he did anything wrong. is there anything to create a problem for us for either him as governor or us as a country and the fact is it s very different from what hillary clinton did with classified documents and wiping uft server and to compare the two is silly. look at what governor pence using an aol account, and say i didn t know aol accounts existed, that may be a bigger perception, at least move to g mail. he was maintaining those and being turned all over the public records. just as indiana law requires. and so, we ll have access to those down the road. and so i think the fact is, is what he did here is not dissimilar. it s common practice to have a private e-mail. it s not common to have a private e-mail server in your bathroom closet. jim, bigger story of the week, jeff sessions and the meeting with the russian
america. i believe real and positive immigration reform is possible. tonight i am also calling on this congress to repeal and replace obamacare. the dow jones gained more than 300 points on wednesday, closing above 21,000 for the first time in history. therefore, i have reaccused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. a senior administration official confirming to nbc news the russian ambassador also met with president trump senior advisor and son-in-law jared kushner in december, during rt transition. so many people having so many contacts and not remembering. it doesn t make sense. the most forgetful team in history or the most intimate with russia. president trump ending week six back at palm beach international airport. he ll head to mar-a-lago for the weekend. let s bring in jim manly. and the current senior director of communications qga, and chris
ambassador. he reaccused himself. some democrats saying that s not good enough. where do you fall? well, whole bunch of republicans have an awful lot of questions as well. i was struck what i ve been struck is by how little his colleagues in both the house and senate have been declining to rush to his defense in the last 24 hours. sure speaker ryan gave a strong defense this morning, he doesn t have a vote in the senate. that really doesn t count for much. look, he s recused himself, i think there s serious questions here that need to be addressed and i think he needs to seriously consider stepping down and/or at least conducting an independent investigation. because this is very troublesome. there s an awful lot of fires out there. chris, your former boss ted cruz called it a big nothing burger, but to the points just raised by jim manly, what do you say about all those questions swirling and drawing attention away from what probably would have been a great week for
i think for supreme court nominations a lifetime appointment, it is important that particular nominee receive a bipartisan 60 vote threshold. i think that s fair. that s been the precedent for many. and i think it should remain the precedent for every president going forward. i just think senator reid was right when he pulled the nuclear option for all other nominees in order to repair our democracy and accomplish tremendous gains for president obama and our country. you sound defensive. nobody brought that up yet. i think it was the right thing to do. it was going to come up. it was the right thing to do. all right. i know how this works. brian, let me read from your article and guive you a chance o weigh in. you write the filibuster by slowing the process, and giving a bit of power to the minority party ensures important changes get serious consideration. it forces cooperation and from our own experience, you and jim