people are proud of their reputations, it s what they live for, being respected by their colleagues, being respected by other people, certainly being respected by their little daughters, which is the case with judge kavanagh and then all of that is put in jeopardy one person makes a charge about something that happened 36 years ago. she s written her letter, it s out there, and the fbi has had that letter for one week, i don t understand, i mean they re in charge of background investigations so they have had it, so have at it if they think it s worth investigating. but my own thought about this is exclusively about the harm that this causes an individual, the hurt that it causes. senator, let me ask you this,
representatives. all of these arguments are really political arguments. they re somewhat legal but really being made for political purposes. there was another element in the 20 page letter that the new york times reported on, molly, that the president actually, according to the president s lawyers, dictated that statement to the new york times about that very controversial trump tower meeting that his son, son-in-law, campaign chairman had with russians back in 2016. i want you to listen, though, to what some of the president s lawyers and aides said contradicting this notion that the presidented this statement. that was written by donald trump jr. and i m sure with in consultation with his lawyer. that wasn t written by the president. the president didn t sign off on anything. the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. it came from donald trump jr. he certainly didn t dictate but, you know, he like i said he weighed in,
public, i want to go out and make my case. he was not an unwilling witness today, he did not testify in publicly, that s because republicans didn t want him to testify publicly, he wanted to go out there in open court. i think that s admirable, he s willing to get out there and answer questions of anybody who will ask him? and does bob mueller share this sort of attitude that all of these contacts with russia are a hoax? i m not sure what bob mueller thinks, but i know congressional investigators are not sure where roger stone figures into this. he has richard nixon s face tattooed on his back. who doesn t. of course. he s loving his role in the spotlight here. and he did say some things that were very suggestive. remember he said it was john d podes podesta s time in the barrel, a few weeks before his emails were
the united states who has did something no president has done which was take the side of what was considered the holy grail of politics which was to repudiate white supremacists. i wait for the moment where republicans who are in office actually say, this is the lieng in the sand. we will oppose. help our audience understand the significance of john d danforth doing what he did. he s a very respected republican figure. he still has a lot of sway in missouri politics. he was a moderate. i think he s voicing a sentiment that a lot of other republicans also feel. the problem is this idea that you re going to distance the republican party from its own sitting president is almost a contradiction in terms.
investigations, we re talking about a long span of time and a huge country with a lot of different moving parts. its hard to read directly into and it frankly it should not be read directly into. they ll talk to a lot of beam a lot of things and none of it necessarily means anything. this is your wheel house. the fact this is slowly moving out of the political realm into the judicial realm suggests that time lines may slow down. if the president thought he would make the russian thing go away by firing james comey, he will find he will get exactly the opposite effect. now we have a will special counsel who has come into this, robert mueller. he has to firgt ogure out what s job? this is first time since john