it s public. it s on his own twitter feed for everyone to see. there can be no question that the new york times got that, misread it, it s all written as public and it s from the horse s mouth. you not only have the e-mails, you have the conflicting public statements right after another starting on saturday where they kept changing their story and obviously some of those were lies. i do want you alex points out and he is correct that the new york post does have a headline donald trump jr. is an idiot. they covered it inside with a headline that only the new york post can provide, from russia with i love it. and one of the best editorials
along to the fbi as was done back in during the bush/gore debate, if you remember. the gore team was given background information, illegally obtained, about candidate bush, and they passed that along to the fbi. that s what reasonable people do. congressman, it s willie geist. i want to run past you the two defenses given last night by donald trump jr. of taking this meeting and see if they compel you in any way or at least what you think about it. the first one was, we were naive. we re new to politics, we ve never done this before. i thought this was part of the research process. i wanted to susz out some of these theories he d heard online and about other information heard on clinton. number two was, it was a nothing meeting, it wasn t even worth reporting, wasn t even worth telling my father about the candidate at the time because we walked in it was advertised as some big intel meeting about hillary clinton and it didn t happen. it was more about adoption than anything else. wha
broken. and they re supposed to do it so they can warn their constituents. let their constituents warn about what they need to be worried about. they need to be worried about their health care. so to add to mike s point and also to republicans in congress an ability to decipher between right and wrong despite all the russia stories, the gallup polls tracker has found trump s approval rating among republicans steady since february at 85%. and late last month another poll found 73% of republicans say there is nothing wrong with trump s dealings with russia and putin. 15% believe something unethical but not illegal. just 4% thought something illegal had occurred. so why do republican voters not care about the russian well, there ve been other polls out there why should they? there have been other polls out there show his support among republicans actually going down.
that s disgusting. but he is one of the few who s doing this. most republicans are either very quiet or pushing back like we saw tre gowdy do. i think as you ve said before, within the 85% it s been shifting. if you ask how many people strongly support the president versus sort of support the president, he actually has lost some support in there. the one thing i will say, willie, i have heard from most members of congress when they go back to town hall meetings, people are talking about health care, they re talking about jobs, they re talking about the economy. they are not talking about the russia story. and i get that. and i picked that up when i travel too, but the point you made is the right one which is that ted cruz s job is to care about it. we shouldn t live in such a partisan environment that you cannot stand in front of a microphone and say independent of donald trump or anyone else, yes, i am concerned that a foreign government tried to put its thumb on the scale of ou
i think that s what bob mule ser going to look at. now you know that early on before the release, remember this meeting was before the release of the hand dnc e-mails, obviously before the release of john podesta s e-mail. you have the president s own son sending a signal back to a kremlin intermediary sighing, eye great, we love it, we welcome your help. we now go update for you. we now go to zurich and the donald j. trump tweet desk. let s go to zurich and talk to our own willie geist. there s a long delay here. i apologize. the president just tweeted my