poor norway. donald trump took his broom and dustpan to fox news for clean up this morning. but first, the twin clouds that have hung over donald trump s presidency since the beginning, questions about colluding with a foreign power and obstructing the investigation into the foreign power s election meddling have been thrust back into the news by none other than donald trump. that s where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. ashley parker, on set, matt miller. jonathan swan political reporter, politics reporter for the daily beast, betsy woodruff, and elliott williams, former deputy assistant attorney. matt miller, i have to start with you. i watched that and said wow what i thought made don mcghan a great white house counsel was
in washington, couldn t get him here, jonathan swan political reporter for axios. let me start with you, paul butler. the idea that bob mueller who years, his term was extended worked for democrats and fbi directors do, would be leading a team trying to frame the prt of the united states. that seems to be outlandish even in tse outlandish times. yeah, and if you re political, for the record, he s a republican as is his boss rod rosenstein. so what this is about is attacking the prosecution i guess because they feel like they don t have another defense. and seally their defense is this extraordinahat nothing the president could do would constitute obstruction of justice, and that he has the ability to pardon himself. so, they re trying to poison the well. it s really the tv lyer, rudy gi is doing job, but e scary thing is it s working