versus the cultural issues. that s a warning sign for all republicans that this trump working class support is in fact shallow. and the fact that conor lamb was not nancy pelosi, which is what we said yesterday, does not make him donald trump. he supports the second amendment, he owns an ar-15 but he believes it ought to be more difficult to get one. expand background checks which is popular with republicans as well. it s popular with the nra. it s a common-sense position. he s personally against abortion but he supports the supreme court rulings on it. he s against a ban against 20 week sborgs the poiabortion. he was in line with his district because he was not all the way to the left with nancy pelosi and other democrats but that doesn t make him donald trump. he was not, in fact, in line with donald trump s view of the world. and bob i m wondering, i ve been asking the question to myself all day yesterday and we ve been talking about it this morning, any evidence that there are
if attorney general jeff sessions fires him before that, it would jeopardize his federal pension. the new york times reports that no decision has been made, though people inside the justice department expect mccabe to be fired before friday. jonathan, that would be outrageous. here s a guy that has served at mirbly and also this whole narrative by republicans that mccabe and the fbi somehow was anti-trump is ridiculous. what he s accused of leaking was detrimental to hillary clinton, the clinton foundation, and the clinton campaign just like comey s letter helped elect donald trump so do you fire a guy two days before retirement because the president of the united states is applying pressure over twitter to do that. mccabe has become part of the republican talking points about the secret societies and conspiracy theories within the doj and fbi to bring down the president when, as you just point out, those stories were damaging to hillary clinton during the campaign. we don t know
president trump is set to welcome ireland s prime minister today. the two will attend the friends of ireland luncheon hosted by paul ryan. vice president mike pence is set to attend the festivities with the president and irish prime minister. speaking of vice president, the vice president s plan to become president has been disrupted by the current chaos in the white house according to our next guest, best selling author, columnist, reporter and editor at large for the huff post magazine high line vicki ward. her latest piece is entitled swamp thing. i love that. also with us at the table, political writer for the new york times and msnbc political analyst nikon nikon fess
ig report, not being truthful to agents is a fireable offense within the bureau but this does seem it smacks of pettiness, this is someone who the president has targete eed in an unprecedented public way to single out a career official. and the other person perhaps more than mccabe who is a key figure in this drama is jeff sessions. jeff sessions is the one who will have to make the decision to fire him or not. we know sessions has a strained relationship with the president, trump has never forgiven him for recusing himself from the russia probe and this almost feels like an implicit test to the attorney gener general. tack about arbitrary and capricious firing. fbi agents have been leaking since the fbi was created. the leaks during the obama administration, the leaks during
translates into his own election prospects some day. pence has yet to challenge the president on anything. how about racism? even on something simple. we heard pence, after the access hollywood tape dropped, there was a suggestion that that was inappropriate, he did not approve that. but that was it. beyond that moment, he has been we all see the image of him standing behind the president, sort of gazing at him with that smile, and that sort of has been his posture privately inside the white house as well. he hasn t been challenging the president on much of anything. although nick is certainly right, he s managed to avoid a lot of the major scandals in the room, too. and even short of challenging. we ve been talking all morning, trust insists on blind loyalty. and as you get closer to pence actually running, he s going to have to figure out how to manage that. this ends in a very rotten way, blind loyalty. vicky ward, thank you very much. thank you. we ll be reading y