the president in a tweet this morning, even clapper has admonished john brennan for having gone totally off the rails. maybe clapper is being nice to me so he doesn t lose his security clearance. a lot conflated in there and a personal attack and misstating what clapper said. i think clapper was among those who perhaps would not have joined the treasonous adjective that was used by brennan after helsinki. there s a lot of misdirected focus on, you know, the specific comments that john brennan may have made or that others may have made. the issue here i think fundamentally is that you have a president who is abusing his power, who is using a national security tool that has never been something that was
damaged by going out there and misstating something that you believe to be true. so i think that s got to be frustrating for jay. do you think that the person giving him that questionable or bad information as he said was the president? i don t know. did jay say it was the president? he did not say. he did not say. seems to be a limited universe people it could be. i respect that. you could make or surmise it was the president. what we re both forgetting about in this conversation is human nature, john. what ends up happening is you don t think you ve done something wrong. someone is accusing you of doing something wrong. you get your defense mechanisms up and you start explaining yourself. and that typically works if you re fighting with your wife or you ve been stopped by a police officer speeding or maybe in that case it doesn t necessarily work. but in a situation like this, those instincts are the wrong instincts. you have to go
between, asking hard questions there s a lot of evidence there. and i think there s a lot of reason for trump to be concerned of the secretary of state, about about all of those years and all this very important matter. in other words, they were that evidence. attempting to fulfill their asha, here s the thing. nobody looks good in this who s constitutional responsibility for oversight and to hold the involved with it. let me just be honest about president accountable for this that. but the president tweeted earlier today, in part, what kind of lawyer would tape a virtually unprecedented action. as you point out, it was client, so sad. democrats and republicans that is this a first? we just saw there, even in those never heard of it before. he has a point. clips, which michelle just lawyers are not supposed to do played. this, asha. look, to all of us, what what type of lawyer secretly happened in that meeting between putin and trump is a complete records conversations with clients
have appellate courts, or the circuit out in the california area where judges routinely now, and time of appointment art ruling against the administration. they end up going to supreme court. what we saw with the travel ban. from that standpoint, i think we are going to continue to see that, by the trump haters. they are energized and they are bringing lawsuits and overstepping their bounds, and misstating like they did with the travel ban, the actual facts. i don t know the exact issues, but the trump administration has been continued to be under attack by liberals at the state level whether it is california, or the state of washington, or someone like our attorney general here in new york. it is going to be a constant battle. i guess we would say, bring it on, we are going to impact these battles. it will energize our bays again, and again, and again paired this is why we elected president trump. harris: the argument is that it may energized the other side. the democrats are not in
basically told to leave this restaurant, get out, we won t serve you. we have maxine waters essentialessential ly calling for violence against members of this administration. criticized by cory booker on this show. there are certain lines that even in this breakdown of civility we ve had in politics that people realize you shouldn t cross. all this stuff, the sarah sanders thing, the maxine waters incitement to violence, plays right where the white house wants it. to they want to be able to say see, these people hate you. they want to attack you physically. and this is what the left represents. even though it s only a small number of cases. and mike murphy, what also plays into this is when the president keeps saying the mueller probe is a witch hunt, and they re out to get him, and misstating what the mueller probe is all about, that demonization of the mueller investigation plays into this fear and concern among the core