much more on nunes in a few minutes. aske about t news ornight that andy mccabe was asked by the president who did you vote for when they met in the oval office, listen to the answer from the chair of the rnc, the republican national committee. this is the cover fire that alex burns was just talking of. listen. it s just a conversation. i don t think it intends all these terrible things people are trying to put forward. was it inappropriate? i ask people who they vote for somebody. i don t think the intentions are as bad as being put out. getting to know you, getting to know all about you, matt, to your incoming acting fbi director. is that a plausible explanation on planet earth? of course not. it is obviously inappropriate to ask that sort of question, but it s also utterly expected from president trump. it s not hard to imagine him
as these senators try to come to some sort of consensus, president trump can certainly has the veto power and the ability to destroy whatever they come up with. he needs to sort of be a little bit more proactive, i think, and sort of give people a sense on what are the thgs, what does he want to see done. he hasn t done that t. double dose of matt, be anna and alex, thanks for being with us. there is a big question this morning in a very, very troubling development, why did a 15-year-old student open fire at his kentucky high school? we re live. and the wolf huffed and puffed. like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe.
she s certainly right there would be an outcry in the press and the public. it s also a cheap dodge in terms of the politics of washington and the legal ramifications of this. if you fire mueller, that s the one spot where virtually every senate republican has said that s a red line for them. if you fire him, maybe you end the investigation in the short term, but he ll be up on capitol hill testifying to the intelligence committee the next week. i may be a cynic here, i think fewer and fewer republicans these days, at least some of them would be that shocked or that outraged. we ve been building up to that by going after his credibility. i will say when you have the freedom caucus calling the president saying, we ve got this devin nunes memo out there that we want to release, it lends credence to the idea that there are republicans who have backed the president no matter what. matt, i wonder if you can talk about this. we have seen all this evidence the last few days with the
for sure. be they re kind of going over their skis on other issues, i think, draws into question their legitimate concerns. we each touch on all this a lot more. matt vicer, bianna golodryga, alex burns. a day after the president decided to slap big tear rariff china. he s heading to davos to sell the american first brand. christine romans joining us now moments away from the opening bell. teninet secretaries, the president, a huchlk u.s. legationaking the case that america first is not necessarily america alone. that s a message to a globalist crowd, increasingly nervous about american protectionism. the congress secretary defending the tear rariffs.
that was investing in the kids. in each coordinated appearance, each theme is resonating a populous message of the little guy hitting back and taking on the big banks and the lobbyists and the washington insiders and the book s title in fact a fighting chance. so no wonder that she is firing up the democratic base, and the more emphatically she e denies that she is not running for president. but let s bring in the boston globe reporter lynn sweet and elise viebeck of the hill, and matt vicer of the boston chronicle. and why did she write a book here? lynn, because that is the right of the run for the top of president if there was a playbook for running for president there. and this is the point of the