breaking news for the prosecution, possible prosecution of the white house, but the fact that donald trump believes the united states attorney general should act like roy cohn is actually the most damming of all statements coming out from this very disturbing story. well, the link there, joe, was robert kennedy and roy cohn, the same as michael smith explained donald trump expecting loyalty to himself. not to the presidency. not to the nation to himself. roy cohn s loyalty in the 1950s, during the senate mccarthy hearings was to joe mccarthy to protect his patron joe mccarthy. so he would lie, cheat, trim the edges of the law on behalf of joseph mccarthy, senator mccarthy from wisconsin him but michael schmidt, i would like to ask you with regard to this brilliant piece of reporting in the new york times, two questions, if you could explain
i don t know. the republicans did a very good job at undercutting him publicly at the end of the year. they took the text message issue where the top agent expressed anti-trump views with an fbi official. they used that to raise questions about mueller s credibility. mueller had really good standing in washington. someone on both sides of the aisles, but republican, even main stream republicans were really going after him. now, if you are a republican do you look at this and say wow, maybe mueller has really good cards? do i need to back off? i don t think so. there are so many revelations that came out about this president. republicans have continued to stand by him. i think they saw the success. if you look on fox, there is a constant drum beat against mueller and about his prosecutors being democrats and such. so i m not sure this will really change anything. all right. we ll see. michael schmidt. thank you so much. we greatly appreciate it. just one note, yeah, there are
time, similar events are no longer shocking. let s talk about michael schmidt. don mcgahn approaches the attorney general of the united states and tries to convince him not to recuse himself from a pending investigation of elements of the presidency. so you re a former u.s. attorney. did you work for the president of the united states or did you work for the letter of the law, the constitution of the united states? and what is your understanding of the role of the white house counsel? is he the president s personal lawyer or bound to represent the office of the presidency? a once revered and respected institution? president obama made it clear to his u.s. attorneys that although he had appointed us, that we didn t serve him. that u.s. attorneys served the american people, and that his expectation was that we would do exactly that. the white house counsel currently don mcgahn has a very
now. we know of several dozen republican legislators who are not seeking reelection. i think if they were to start something, maybe others would follow. let s face it, when in the tweet donald trump said he granted michael wolff access, he offered zero oversight. there s no oversight of this administration, and now it s time for the house and the senate to do what they re supposed to do and keep that executive branch in check. these are very difficult times. we talked last week about how he gave that interview at the grill room with michael schmidt. another incredible interview, and the thing that s so concerning about that is he did it so offhandedly. he set policy. he s doing these things that do not allow serious people to do their work in the white house, and there are some like general mattis and general kelly. it s now time for people to step up and hold him accountable. and jonathan, that s what s so disturbing. if you want to get away from the
have a belief in their culture and their sort of natural ability to be a dominant player in their part of the world. so i think increasingly, there is a little of a make iran great again, forgive me for borrowing the trump slogan, but this sort of sense, our country really should be doing better than it is, that s come out. it s one reason it s so widespread. joe, if i might, i just want to turn to michael schmidt with a last question. michael, we have been watching bob mueller on his back foot the last couple weeks as conservative media, conservative members of congress, attacked his investigation, do you think after your revelation suggesting new possibilities of obstructing the investigation after michael wolff publishes bannon, calling the trump tower meeting treasonous, unpatriotic and bad bleep. do you think that this means mueller is now on his front foot and a lot of that criticism will go away?