investigation. although it could be that there is enough that s already out there that, you know, can use so, the purpose here is to show that manafort lied, not to show evidence against other people. and so it depends a lot what the lies are about. phil rucker, to this reporting about the trump legal team, does it match up with what you know and have been able to learn? because every so often we keep hearing, you know, they ve hired a new candidate and they re really going to buckle down. but it seems to me, every day in that legal shop must feel like the eve of hurricane katrina, especially now that we read they re not prepared. yeah, brian, you know, there s a quote in the atlantic story from i think a former white house official who said the strategy is basically, jesus, take the wheel. and that s been the strategy all along through this presidency for almost every issue among the staff. so a lot of decision making and the communication strategy having to do with the mueller
very concerned that the president does not seem to be taking seriously the threat from mueller in the months to come, coupled with the threat from democrats as they take over the house of representatives and start launching investigations, including potentially into the president s businesses, into his family, potentially trying to get his tax returns. there are a number of issues ahead on the horizon and the president doesn t seem to have all the lawyers, all the sort of war room strategists and operatives in place that his allies would like to see. daniel goldman, the new talking point that s in vogue and cities serviced by amtrak on the east coast is this. the 20 or so memos, sentencing documents, charges, that s going to be the mueller report. it will be told in chapters, and not a la ken starr, a bound book that is distributed to the media at a d.c. press conference. what say you to that? well, i think there is going to be more indictments and that would be part of it, too
they don t want to implicate themselves. they don t want to create any sort of legal exposure and result in them having to hire a lawyer or get subpoenaed or anything like that. so a lot of decision making and the communication strategy having to do with the mueller probe is limited to people in the counsel s office and the president s personal attorneys. but the reporting is absolutely right and it matches up with what i ve been hearing. i spoke to a number of trump allies today who said they re very concerned that the president does not seem to be taking seriously the threat from mueller in the months to come, coupled with the threat from democrats as they take over the house of representatives and start launching investigations, including potentially into the president s businesses, into his family, potentially trying to get his tax returns. there are a number of issues ahead on the horizon and the president doesn t seem to have all the lawyers, all the sort of war room strategists
protecting the special counsel investigation. with respect to democrats in the senate and house, we hope they will decide they want to play a constructive role in putting the record let s legislative accomplishment rather than spending all their time launching investigations. the american people are watching closely and they will make sure justice is served and is a political effort to stop that they will notice. democrats into leveraging their votes by attacking protections with special counsel to the year end special spending bill and the threat from jeff flake about to hold up anymore judicial appointments until the senate votes on the mueller protection bill. with only 3 weeks left the post midterm agenda is looking like a lame-duck and despite democrats wiping out republican majority in the house donald trump is making his own threats when it comes to the border wall. a big some of money, $5 million. if i was ever going to do a shutdown over border security, look at the pe
like infrastructure or even votes for pelosi for speaker. and we can work together. or you we can clash. i think he still tried to sort through the wreckage of the midterm elections and come to some kind of strategy in dealing with the new democratic majority in the house. he is the dealmaker in chief. and he wants to practice the art of the deal here. sounds like. that is one way of looking at it. but it is still, there is not, doesn t appear to be complete strategy because on the other hand, you have the president really forcing the democrats hand into launching investigations against him. first, by firing or ousting attorney general, jeff sessions and replacing him with matt whitaker. someone has been very critical of the russian investigation and somebody democrats really want to investigate for that reason. they are forcing democrats has to come against them even as he dangles this possible bipartisan nirvana in the next