and phony dossier. did you hear about the dossier? what did he do? he didn t call me. he turned it over to the fbi hoping to put me in jeopardy. he voted against repeal and replace. he voted against at 2:00 in the morning. remember, thumbs down. we said what the hell happened? i endorsed him at his request, and i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted. which as president i had to approve. i don t care about this. i didn t get a thank you. that s okay. we sent him on the way. but i wasn t a fan of john mccain. trump today also kept up his criticism of conservative lawyer george conway, the husband of kellyanne conway, one of the president s senior and longest-serving advisers. conway has been using posts online to raise alarms about the president s mental health and his fitness for office. trump was asked about that as he left for ohio. i don t know him. he s a wack job. there s no question about it.
war that is going to come this spring over both the mueller report and the other concurrent investigations occurring in congress. and jill, while republicans support or at minimum lack of criticism for this president has been kind of awe-inspiring to watch, they will want to count on friends on the hill when this comes out. is that directly related to whatever this says? absolutely. i mean, at this point everyone is really in this waiting mode. you ve seen sort of the rage of the president boiling over this weekend into today even as he lashed out with john mccain, you know, connecting his anger at john mccain with the fact that he referred that dossier over to the fbi. the president is in a state where he s really hoping that he will have republicans will have his back, they will stand up for him. but at the same time as you sort of feel this rage coming from the white house, there also is the sense of quiet optimism where they are hoping, crossing their fingers, and under the i
dust. he tries to create alternative storylines. he tries to distract the news media scrutiny. he tries to sort of shift the spotlight in one direction or another. we saw that with the extraordinary barrage of tweets overt weekend attacking all sorts of people and parties and institutions. and we saw that again yesterday and today with his attacks on george conway sort of elevating the kellyanne and george conway story to major news. and with his attacks today in ohio on senator john mccain. he knows that this mueller report is coming. we don t know exactly when it will come. it could be later this week. it could be next week. it could even be next month. but it is coming soon and trump i believe is worried about that. jill colvin, the mccain attacks are indeed breathac takg any civilized society, especially considering the stature john mccain had in public life when we said farewell to him. there we are in ohio in a factory that makes some of the armor that our men and women
rallies what he has gone after mccain. but today at an army tank plant where potus said a third of the workforce is comprised of veterans, there was a very quiet response. and then there was this tonight, michael. this kind of broke my heart to see it. the mccain institute felt the need to put out the facts ant john mccain s life. and it broke hmy heart because n our line of work, you committed these to memory long ago. you know the story of john mccain because john mccain s story was the story of incredible military achievement of survival, as a p.o.w. for almost six years, and being one of the more consequential members of the senate. you can have political disputes with him, you can disagree on some policy, idea, or initiative, but you cannot take away the legacy of the man. you cannot take away the commitment he made as a very,
the donald. and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee, former lieutenant governor of the great state of maryland. gentlemen, welcome to you both. tim, what donald trump qualities that you are familiar with, that you have written about, were on display in the donald trump you watched today? i think his full-blown pettiness when he s confronted with opposition, when people are criticizing him in ways he can t control, when other people s legacies, i.e. the legacy of somebody like senator mccain, who was a war hero, present him with things he can t either compete against or argue against. he gets cornered, and he goes into this sort of grand m mal slogging. and while i think today was possibly a new low in his remarks about the senator s funeral and the failure of the senator to thank him i don t know how that was going to occur. however, he expected to be thanked.