unless there is some strategy that is later revealed about why the president tweeted by the tapes what you re left with is the sense it s just a little bit of nonsense, right nothing about james comey says that he can be be bluffed whether you like him or not that he can be bluffed or pushed off his stance. so why the president thought that he could do that to director comey is a little bit baffling. if you panned it out though a little bit and think about what david gergen said a moment ago, i agree, the president s approval rating haves never gone lower than 35 never higher than 45 since inauguration day which suggests to me on the one hand he is not losing a lot of supports but also not gaining a lot of support. and you know we re sort of hardening into camps into the country and we got to find to way to have a a little bit of better dialogue. david gergen i ll give you the last point since we were discussing what you were saying. at the same time we got to hold him accountabl
12 years as the fbi director. the idea that now the president is going to sort of come in here and suggest that, well, he is in the polk ever democrats even though as others have pointed out president trump himself has on many occasions contributed money to democrats over the course of his krer it doesn t seem like it s washing very well. i want to move on quickly can you guys does this bother you him saying that is that concerning to you. very concerning. it means he is going to gut mueller in the end. the question is will republican senators go along with that? will corker and thune and flake and allow him to to bate up on mueller like that. it would be a zpafrt if he fired mueller or tried to through the justice department. yeah. let s turn to the tapes. the other news of the day. here is how the it s all gone down. first there was this tweet from the president. on may 12th. he says here on may 12th james comey better hope there are no tapes of the conversations before h
comey, comey hearing and that was on june 8th. watch this. i very carefully chose the words. and look i i ve seen the tweet about tapes. lordy, i hope there are tapes. then this today. the president tweet wg all of the recently reported electronic surveillance intercepts unof course mag illegal leaking of information i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversation was james comey. but i did not make and do not have any such recordings. we have lost, doug, 40 days, right. and 40 days that have damaged the trump presidency and cast down on his personal credibility as well. and it s it makes me ill. i mean we have soldiers fighting abroad right now process. you have a president jerking the american people around like this on the idea of dangling the tapes that didn t exist in front of us. it s a manufacture of a skound ral i think. the behavior of the president has to be we no he
robert mueller do you think he should rekuz himself from this because he is good friends with james come withy, hired some attorneys part of hillary clinton s foundation given pollone to president obama and hillary clinton campaign. well he is very, very good friends with comey, which is very bothersome. but he is also we ll have to see. we ll have to see in terms look, there has been no obstruction. there has been no collusion. there has been leaking by comey. but there s been no collusion, no obstruction and virtually everybody agrees to that. so we ll have to see. i can say that the people that have been hired are all hillary clinton supporters. so david gergen, he has declared himself innocent should the special counsel stop now. no but i think you can tell he is ramping up in a which he is trying to discredit mueller so that if if in fact the mueller and the special
republicans don t like it this is not any way to run a country. the world s got to be scratching their heads and lafrg at us. would you define the last 40 days at self-sabotage. of course if it hadn t been for his tweet it s unlikely that james comey would have leaked his memos. i want to add one more thing which is the importance of credibility. we are still the only superpower in the world. we have the most powerful nuclear arsenal. and we have a president of the united states who doesn t care if he makes things up. that undermines our ability to send signals to our adversaries and our friends alike. this is real business. this is serious business. and our president in the way in which he dealt with the tapes matter for 40 days wasn t taking his job seriously. period. i want to hear from david gergen it has been one republican said the president has been amused by this and all