collusion is actually fine. if mueller comes out in six months and says that there s actually a conspiracy, they re going to be people in bars in pennsylvania saying, you know what? it s not so bad. clinton was really bad. it was worth beating her. he is going to pull everything in that direction. this is entirely consistent with what we know about human behavior which is that with any kind of habit or addiction, if it isn t addressed if it isn t called out, if it isn t treated it gets worse. it s like that with adults. it s like that with children, and there s no one calling him out other than the media who he feels he s already handedly discredited. we ve seen the point of that walk back, right, as mike put it, was to give members of congress and his party just a fig leaf to say, you know what? it s over. we saw that yesterday. people like senator portman said, i take him at his word. case closes. the only purpose to that. it wasn t for the public or us.
from mr. trump, the constant deceptions from mr. trump, have erased the american immune system that we are so immune now to lies, to deceptions, that it doesn t bother us as much? i think there s thanks to that question. there s a particular level of immunity when it comes to things that people are hearing from the national media about national politics. where i think there is a real all the things we could say about polarization, cynicism, jadedness, bitterness, all those things would apply. i think in all the parts of life that are not about national politics, our observation was that the actual character that we would like to think of as american is still functioning so these in ap appalachia dealing with the opioids a cross the country a sense of downtowns being reconfigured, schools being experimented with. so i think there is this kind of
america should be paying so much money into it? the big beneficiary is the guy who flipped the soccer ball to the president. that s vladimir putin, because that creaking sound you re hearing is the transatlantic bridge between the united states, canada and our european allies, and it s creaking under pressure from donald trump. that s a very bad place for the united states of america to be, because in europe we find our greatest pool of allies, partners and friends. and to walk away from that is a big mistake. that s the strategic, willie. and tactically, think about those young american fighter pilots. those destroyer drivers on the borders of the alliance that are being pushed on by russia every single day. what s in their head when they hear the president of the united states say that alliance that you re operating in defense of is really kind of irrelevant. it s a bad deal. so it s bad strategically, bad tactically for our military and
it was for congress and it worked. not just that he gets away with it, he s rewarded for it. why you see the behavior going up. the hold in his party doesn t change his hold on his base and the people in any place where there s a doesn t change. that s why you see this and there s no one around him who can say, you just can t say that. or and the reason we see those hats, there isn t anyone around him who can say, like, this is the speech we re going to stick to it. he goes out, they can have something in the prompter but he goes out and says what he wants to and a real change that we ve noticed in the last few months. they don t even try to explain anymore. the staff just says, it s trump. and you ask what he s going to do, they say, i don t know. his argument, kristin, this is how i got elected. trump being trump. seems he s convinced many handlers and aides that s the best way to go?
the united states. it reminded me of the scene in castaway tom hanks starts talking to his volleyball. now we ve got ivan the soccer ball in the white house. it s a bad day for the american presidency. so as heidi mentioned, this wasn t about one line or one word. this was about the full context of the president s press conference with vladimir putin. to believe what the president said yesterday you d have to discount everything else he said during that news conference from his withering attack on the justice department and the fbi for investigating his campaign s ties to russia to putin incredible offer to help with the investigation, to latching out at those who suggested russian meddling was in any way responsible for his victory for the debunking of the dnc and hillary clinton s 33,000 missing e-mails. i do feel that we have both made some mistakes. i think that the, the probe is a