would work. what would the rultd of that look like do you think, in terms of governing in washington? i don t know. i am curious, mr. steele, how much patience do you think they have? i think one of the things president trump needs to think carefully about is that senate majority leader, cocaine mitch mcconnell, as he s occasionally referred to, his job isn t protecting donald trump but protecting the senate in 2020. and as till now protecting the senate majority and protecting the president did not diverge. we may see a point in these coming months where senator mcconnell s responsibility to his majority in the senate does not line up exactly with the president s priorities and preferences. as we ve learned about mitch mcconnell, he s a disciplined go. he will just go with where the
the department. i don t know if it s a good idea for a man who has subpoena power to use ryan zinke s official twitter account to punch this is gone. donald trump probably thinks this is hilarious. of course. and this goes to the fact i think we re missing a lot of all of this underbrush of scandal is kind of rumbling background noise because we re all so focused on trump and mueller and the main event that we re missing cabinet secretary after cabinet secretary. some are leaving, some aren t with these congressional scandals. we re missing all of this stuff that would be huge scandals without trump blotting out the sun. leaving aside the fact that if
epstein, donald trump s it s a whos who of people, and it just smells as if some large hand said we don t want this. and it s a who s who of defense lawyers on the other side. and there s some evidence that possibly acosta misled the senate. it is unclear if those answers were fulsome, and it s something we should talk about it. but it s really hard to talk about when we re worried about whether the president is possibly liar under oath. and therefore you get the situation where a scott pruitt can last beyond where the laws of political gravity, for months where they would tell you he should be fall, he has hung on and saying what he other compromise secretaries know. maybe someone will run on a presidential pledge to drain the swamp. good idea. and i m wondering if that
before we have another president. and i would argue that s fair to the republican candidate, give them time to do that. but there are issues of fairne fairness. not coming out in the middle of election season is a matter of fundamental fairness. not coming out so close to 2020 is monumental fairness. but when you re dealing with a bunch of people who were lying personally, lying after they ve agreed to cooperate kwu, i have some empathy for mueller in terms tft amount of time this is taking. there is one thing that has happened that i think has not gotten a lot of attention in the last couple weeks maybe it was still this week, everything blends together. but the significant part of paul manafort, maybe it s helpful to donald trump if paul manafort isn t cooperating. not just not cooperating but funneling information to donald
down. which was, apparently he isn t actually cooperating with the people he said he would cooperate with. that was actually kind of good for president trump, because that meant the one guy who was in that trump tower meeting with the russians wasn t actually giving up any information, or at least he was caught in some kind of lie, and possibly by next week we will find out what those lies looked like. then we came back to this michael cohen situation, which he thinks he was lying on behalf of protecting the president. then the next thing is, who are the next people they can go after? and the only things sort of left are kind of the family and the president himself. and what we don t know is who else lied about the same thing that michael cohen says he lied about. did donald trump jr. tell someone that the russian deal ended in january of 2016, and it actually went to june 2016? we don t know that and we don t know what president trump lied about. but we actually don t know yet