clearly be negative. i don t know the logic of 9 president, but i could imagine him seeing the events and making the announcement on purpose. mckay, what do you think of julian zellazer s theory? i ll be honest with you, it makes total sense. the one place i don t think we can underestimate trump is his instinct for media. he is a television guy. he had a reality show, he s obsessed with cable news and the news cycle. it s not as completely far-fetched as he would use the pending hurricane and the crisis that that could cause as a way to, you know, piggyback offer o that and make news of his own. hey, mckay, is sebastian gorka more a threat outside the presidency, does the president have to be careful to consider a
there s little justification for doing this in in terms of it, it circumvents the jieshl process. and it seems to be a clear political message to the base that the donald trump who ran in 2016 is exactly the president who is on issues like immigration. mckay koppens to the professor s point about the message it sends to the base. why not announce it tuesday night. tuesday night you saw him in that rally with folks in phoenix. when he referenced sheriff joe, they were effusive in their praise and cheering. why didn t he simply say, hey, i m pardoning him and it s done? yeah, it s a good question. there s two reasons. one, there is genuine concern about the reaction on the ground there in arizona. already outside of the event where president trump was speaking. there were protests that turned ugly as police clashed with protesters. we can also coming on the heels
butler, jennifer ruben, mckay koppens. thank you all for being here. jennifer, i m starting with you on this first. the white house has been told to preserve all documents about the trump junior meeting. that takes care of him. you had jared kushner come out with yet another financial disclosure in which he remembered another 77 meetings and this financial filing about all the money they ve made. he and ivanka. this is now inevitably circling in on the trump family and inner circle. so what do you make of donald trump s threat to mueller not to go near his finances in light of all that? i think it s a trial to see if the republicans balk. if he can get away with firing mueller. whatever trump is afraid of must be really, really bad. because he is now talking about not only firing mueller but of course pardoning himself which many of us think is not permissible. i think he fears that the finances are going to lead some
learned today. inside the trump campaign, there is a belief that roger ales was given an order to kill off donald trump in the debate to help jeb bush. we don t know yet if that s true. that is the belief that s taken hold inside the trump campaign. without a doubt trump did days questions that were decidedly more pointed than any of the other republicans i ve got to say, decidedly more pointed but also seemed like you ve got to guy running for president, the front-runner, pointed questions seem appropriate. exactly. that makes sense. but that is bat leave inside the trump campaign. roger ailes needs donald trump. just look at the ratings. 24 million people. that s the hilarious thing. trump gets up there, mckay, and says, it would have been 2 million if not for me. i don t think it would have been 2 million, but trump owns a significant 24 million is just a bonkers number for something this early. yeah. i remember when i was flying into cleveland, i literally heard peopl
anybody. a cease-fire seems to have been called. trump is said to appear on fox and friends at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow. ales confirmed the call. we had a blunt but cordial conversation, the air s been cleared. the war between the gop front runner and fox comes amidst a larger civil war that s sprung up in the conservative media around the figure of trump. while he s going after fox news the drudge report and breitbart, two leading conserve tive outlets, both carried pro-trump, anti-fox news headlines. buzz feed reported some breitbart stuffers believe trump has given men to staff for favorite coverage. it s been denied, we have no financial with donald trump as an investor, advertiser or in any other capacity at this time, nor have we ever. joining me, mckay koppens, who wrote that record, and gabriel