senators are. and john mccain said that at the hearing himself. so john mccain, a sitting senator explained about this during the hearing himself. right. it was bizarre and telling. perry bacon and michael wallman, thank you both for being here. democrats out in force on these sunday shows. every day is a new crisis. a lot to say but do they have a unified strategy when it comes to moving this investigation forward? our power panel digs in. next hour, we ve all heard the words from trump supporters about the russia inquiry. where is the real crime? well, today we have something special for you, a report on exactly which laws may have been broken and how the fbi looks at these kind of things from election tampering to computer hacking. there are statutes worth discussing. that s later on the point. than my vacation. so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it.
present day reasons. and that, i think, president trump has sort of, you know, blown through those norms in a way that for those of us who have been in government and worked in government have been, you know, really quite shocked by. katherine who knows of what she speaks, thank you for your time tonight. thanks a lot, ari. it s nice to be here. joining me now is michael wallman, chief speech retire writer for bill clinton and perry bacon who writes for 538. just building on that because you were in a clinton white house that had a lot of inquiries. the obama white house had fewer. what did you think of the points katherine made? i think that she s exactly right. there have been other presidents and other investigations and other lawyers. and first of all, you need to have both a strong representation of the presidency and also perhaps a representation of the president as a person. it seems like the lawyer they
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0 that s why i apologized. we should point out on facebook this morning, prior to the explosion on morning television, he did not apologize at all. doubled down. there are rules in the house. if this had happened in the house floor, he would be up for a reprimand. this happened in a house office building. the reporter could have filed chargers. it was that threatening. you know, there s a larger issue here, and i m not saying that everything is there s a lot of the way we communicate in politics today, there s partisan media. there s non-partisan media. there s partisan elected officials. there is a dehumanization going on. there s people that try to dehumanize reporters. there s some opinion folks trying to dehumanize politicians and other reporters. i think i ve been fearing confrontations like this more often. i feel like that there is this culture that s been developed, some of it you can thank to social media, blind comments, anonymous this, the fact that everyth