your take on that? not from a political standpoint, but just from a tasteful standpoint. when you hear the president speak like that. what do you think? we elected trump because he is a fighter. what john tester did was despicable. he threw out allegations against ronny jackson and made no effort to see if those accusations were actually true. now we have the white house and secret service coming out saying that they can t prove that any of these allegations are true. now there are genuine concerns about ronny jackson and those concerns should be expressed. for example, he s never had experience running a big government organization. but the allegations that tester threw out, again, they are not proven, and what he did was bad. and trump is calling him out on that. again, in montana, trump won that state by 20 points. so tester could be politically hurt by this. i m just curious, has the president ever done that, kristin? has the president ever called out somebody and put out alleg
periphery. right? and then they, with cooperating witnesses and indictments, and the more they cooperate the more we get to the center, the closer we get to the white house. i think the point is, we re getting really close. the question is, now that we have several people cooperating, will mr. cohen be part of that. it s part of a pattern. there s no way of knowing exactly how far that investigation goes. but i think it is absolutely critical that we don t halt the investigation, that we don t fire mr. mueller or mr. rosenstein as the president has attempted to do several times. i m not out there talking impeachment like the president, of all people. i think it is fair to talk to the middle. let this investigation take its course. let s find out exactly what happened. the worst thing that could happen is to go to one extreme or another. and what the republicans did in shutting down the investigation when there was so much more to learn was only their attempt to
starting to happen. republicans are trailing democrats by eight points in the generic ballot according to quinnipiac. there is a growing number of resignations. we have some pretty tough strategic choices to make, one of them being the president s role in the mid-term race. the new york times is reporting congressional and party leaders and even some trump aides are concerned that the president s boundless self-assurance about politics will cause him to ignore or undermine their mid-term strategy. hey big how big of a threat do you see that being? i think right now the left is really mobilized and angry. so of course democrats are going to do well in the mid-term elections. i mean the party out of power always does well. but, look. again, what we ve been talking about with this impeachment stuff the democrats haven t really offered any solutions. they haven t gin voters any reason to actually get off the couch and go to the polls other than resist trump. as for republicans, i t
baker, fbi jem counsgeneral cou on a lot of these calls and listening in. during another exchange, here s what schiff asked, quote, if the director didn t lift the cloud of the russia investigation that the president would take action against you? mccabe replied, that s correct. that was my concern and as i understand it, that was director comey s concern as well. but again, to your point the more you get from mccabe, despite the fact that he has been found to lie under oath, is it the kind of thing like just collectively you have mccabe, the summarization of everything he s saying, then perhaps corroboration from james comey. can that allow this to move it forward? i just don t think it will. i think it is a distraction. i think the central focus of the case will be the obstruction with comey. i think because there is this battle between trump and mccabe and the department of justice has said mccabe lied to them several times, under oath and not under oath, i just think it
we have to keep the house. because if you listen to maxine waters [ crowd booing ] she goes around seeing, we will impeach him. we got to go out and fight like hell and we gotta win the house and we gotta win the senate. i think we re gonna do great in the senate and i think we re gonna do great in the house because the economy is so good. t the new york times this morning underscoring how worried republicans are behind the scenes of losing control of both the house and senate as a result of president trump. nbc white house correspondent kelly o donnell has more on that, as well as fallout from the correspondents dinner last night. kelly, quite a night. ooh, that comedy was searing. reporter: there s so much to talk about this morning, alex, because the president spoke for more than an hour and he hit so many different topics. you gave some of the good, i think notable comments right there, and he did it because he