disastrous running a trigs or white house. we have to turn to another story because we ve got breaking news. former congressman anthony weiner married, of course, to top hillary clinton aide houma abedin is reportedly set to plead guilty to a single charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. what s your reaction? obviously this is the story we read so much about the sexting scandal. he was under investigation by the federal government so i m not surprised that something was going to come out of this. obviously he was facing more stiffer charges and with that came with stiffer penalties, so for him to plead guilty to this, i think, is indicative of the evidence that they had and i think he just wants this to go away. it s unfortunate, but it is what it is. if you decide that you are going to share obscene materials with a 15-year-old girl from north carolina, this is the punishment that you ought to receive. i actually think it ought to be more severe and more stringent.
information on russia s campaign to influence the presidential election as early as june or july of 2016. joel benson is still here and ari melbourne. comey pitched this idea of writing an op ed. it was the obama administration that blocked it. had me written that, would you still be sitting here? i why wouldn t i be? you might be working at the white house. i m too old to work at the white house, craig. i think one of the frustrations during the entire summer after the wikileaks was us trying to convince journalists to take this seriously. the fbi has strict procedures about when and why and where you can go public. we know that director comey violated all those procedures when he spoke out on april 28th
joel benson is sitting here with me. paul ryan says he s standing by devin nunes. given that and given the republicans entrenchment in the senate and house intelligence committees, how much recourse do they have if they want to move it to a special investigator if need be? i think it will take a few more bumps in the road. this was definitely a problem for nunes. i think it s going to take mocrats and republicans calling for it. wee had republicans speaking out, particularly on the senate side, calling for a select committee already to do it. it would really be the quickest thing and the smartest thing, frankly, for the president and congress to agree to. every time they do something wrong, every time they raise a scintilla of a question of how they re conducting it, it calls
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polling went from winning an election down to 40%, 38%, 28% approval ratings. you ve got to make some course corrections. but, joel, i believe those things are happening. when president trump gave that speech last week, they were all running a victory lap. that happened, he had three days and then he came back out of the stage. so does straight talking work here? no, if the president does not have impulse control, there is only so much that can be done, though i do think a system around him designed to curb those impulses and accountable to a chief of staff would help the situation. i m going to talk about something great, march. it s women s history month. like every day, i want to highlight our one great woman. janet guthrie, the retired professional race car driver. that s right, she was born on this very day in 1938. guthrie was the first woman to qualify for and compete in the