attacking iran, you re going to have some consequences that will probably haunt us for a long, long time. because we re still in afghanistan. we re still in iraq. senator mazie hirono, thank you for making some time tonight. thank you. for more on the trump administration s logic, i m joined by medi. i just heard someone saying that inside the administration, it s trump versus bolton. and a bunch of different swing votes. and i think to myself, here it is. senior white house official tells me it s bolton versus trump versus how to proceed on iran. trump does not want conflict. pompeo, pence, esper are swing votes, et cetera. the president seems to be essentially a kind of pundit/commentator sitting at a bar on his own administration, as it moves almost inexorably towards actual military confrontation. and what s so absurd, as you said in your intro, it depends what side of bed he got out of.
that s not real difficult to do under these circumstances and is something that they may have to do before they release that part of it. the other part of it also goes to classified information. now, what mueller has that no other investigator really has is not only the witnesses, the documents, but he also has this huge body of classified information that is intelligence data that comes through all the various intelligence agencies that are out there, that basically concluded that there was interference in our presidential election in 2016. so that is going to be the real tricky part because, on one hand, you do not want to be revealing sources. on the other hand, some of this could be extremely vital information and some of it must have been used in those two russian indictments that you referenced at the beginning of the show. right. medi, i want to come to you on this, the things that we know
no, we need to disagree with each other s point of view. in point of fact, when somebody has a disagreement with me, i have to separate that person s viewpoint from the person. if i can t do that look, people are trying to fire me up on social media and in the medi politicians and college campuses saying somebody who has obnoxious points of view is a terrible person. well, that s not right. in point of fact, we re all nuanced people. and if i m going to make any progress with you if i disagree, i have to say, i like stephanie. i just don t like what she thinks. let s work on what she thinks and just starting from that standpoint we can make progress. and everybody watching us can make progress and be happier people to boot. there s also some obnoxious people with great points of view. it goes both ways. arthur, thank you. up next my favorite part of the show. money, power, politics. specifically president trump s 2020 re-election and the economy. why fed chair jay powell s co
as an eco naturalist or an eco fascist. but people should read it in its entirety. medi, is the administration more concerned about avoiding blame and acknowledging and responding to the facts from the fbi and other agencies and the gunman s words. they know this is an issue. they see the statistics more than we do, don. they know, for example, you know, the 50% increase in white nationalist groups in 2018, according to the southern poverty law center. massive increase in hate crimes on their watch. rather than dealing with that, mick mulvaney was asked on fox news yesterday, why doesn t the president give a speech or an address where he denounces this once and for all? he could got answer that question. that is a problem don. that is a real issue. to respond to what scott said earlier about this being two
let s discuss. karen finney s here, scott jennings, medi hassan. good evening, one and all. medi, i m going to start with you. the chief of staff forced to defend the president after critics called him out on his rhetoric in the aftermath of two shootings at mosques. the president is not a white supremacist. i don t know how many times we have to say that. to simply ask the question every time this happens overseas or say domestically, oh, my goodness, it must somehow be the president s fault speaks to a politicization that is undermining the institutions we have in the country today. how many times do i have to say this, do we have to say this? it can t be good, seriously, when you re trying to convince the world that the president is not a white supremacist. i know you disagree with him on this. i do disgray. it s a pretty big thing to say. on the other hand, they also