how low is the bar? i don t know if you ever this isn t really your politic. if you ever read naomi kline s shock doctrine. it s shock aftershock aftershock. you can never quite take in the enormity of it all. all the things you just listed. think back 20 years ago last week, this week was the monica lewinsky scandal breaking. think about what an earth shattering revelation that was. we re having monica lewinsky level scandals this, this many in one week. the government hadn t shut down a week ago this hour. you ve done some of the best analysis of the president s twitter feed. you understand better than anyone what his inputs are, what his outputs are. speak about whether this is volume business or life inside his bubble. there is this illusion brought up many times when mr. burns goes into the doctor, the doctor tell him he has literally everything. that s okay, everything is in balance. it s a great little scene. to the point you re making, what are you going to blackmai
that sunning the new york times account reveals that donald trump not only wanted to fire special counsel bob mueller, he called in the order. and it was white house would you know don mcgahn s refusal that carried out the order that forced the president to back down. he also had the role of urging attorney general jeff sessions not to recuse himself in the russia probe. we want to be careful not to exaggerate or misrepresent goingmangoin mcgahn s role in the trump orbuio orbit. michael schmidt quoting the west wing confrontation marks the first time that mr. trump is known to have tried to fired special counsel robert mueller. the washington post adding, quote, trump s ire at mueller
to a grand jury, a courtroom or to congress for impeachment, we may fact a situation where the president is literally confronted with the written statements of his own staff, possibly his own white house counsel, contradicting the president s public statement that this is fake news. his own staff now is faced with impeaching the president s credibility. it s quite an interesting dilemma. it sounds like a standoff. where do you put the odds that donald trump will be interviewed under oath as he told the world he would be just before he departed for switzerland. 48 hours ago i would have said they re quite high that the interview would talk place. but we ve seen, again, this painting into a corner where his counsel is telling him this isn t looking good, you re going to be confronted with our own statements, boss, we told mueller that you wanted to fire
it and why might that matter in an obstruction of justice inquiry? so if mueller were building a broad obstruction case against the president, something like this may play into it as sort of backup evidence, backing up the claims that the president was trying to get in the way of the russia investigation, impacted, have control over it, supporting things in and of itself. it was probably not obstruction but perhaps part of a larger pattern. mueller knows about these things because over the past several months, many white house officials have gone in to be interviewed by him. and while a lot of attention is obviously given to the russia question, the white house officials are largely being interviewed about their time working for the president in the west wing and what went on. and in the course of that, because the white house has waved all its privileges, said it will cooperate with mueller,
let s hope that the press covers the president of the united states differently than it covers celebrity businessman and reality television star. you know, he came here obviously, he likes to brag about crowd sizes as part of it. everything is the biggest and best it s ever been as far as he s concerned. but he did get emotionally warm reception from the people here, not because the billionaire investors and the bankers suddenly decided that they agree with him on globalization and these issues, but because they like his tax cuts and regulatory reform and they feel optimistic about the economy. so, he got a better reception than people might have expected. peter baker, the white house staff there woke up to the news from your colleagues maggie haber man and michael schmidt that donald trump had ordered the firing of bob mueller back in june. i ve been on a foreign trip in another time zone when a big story probably written by you in some instances, broke. i wonder where the white hou