most americans under investigation don t get to say, you know what? i don t think my prosecutor is really being open minded, so i don t think i m going to go to the grand jury, or i m not going to sit for this interview. they don t get to sort of make those grandiose decisions in that way. i understand he s the president. this is different, and there should be a respect for the office, which i think is being honored here. but on the other hand, he s taking power that he has solely because of that office and using it in a way to try to mess up, if you will i mean i won t even use the word obstruction. let s just say mess up or kind of mess with the investigation, and that is a real, i think, abuse of power. what a terrific conversation to start us off on a monday night, starting with a member of the team at the washington post whose journalism set the bar today, ashley parker. mimi rocha, jonathan lemire, our thanks to all three of you for joining us. coming up for us, in the ab
those grandiose decisions in that way. i understand he s the president. this is different, and there should be a respect for the office, which i think is being honored here. but on the other hand, he s taking power that he has solely because of that office and using it in a way to try to mess up, if you will i mean i won t even use the word obstruction. let s just say mess up or kind of mess with the investigation, and that is a real, i think, abuse of power. what a terrific conversation to start us off on a monday night, starting with a member of the team at the washington post whose journalism set the bar today, ashley parker. mimi rocha, jonathan lemire, our thanks to all three of you for joining us. coming up for us, in the absence of an apology to john mccain, the white house says it has a leaking problem. but the president says the real problem is the fake news media. and later, the one thing the leaky white house was able to keep secret today. the 11th hour just gett
and sloppy way and is not standing up to court challenges. so he is not actually doing all the things that the president thinks, but he is someone who the president can affirmatively point to and who conservative groups are still really strongly supporting as pushing the president s agenda. now, if that is enough to carry him through, i don t know, another cascade of stories, we sort of don t know yet. but even when people in the white house and the administration are sort of furious and ready to throw up their hands, the president isn t, and he is the person whose voice and decision matters at the end of the day. you guys all brought your midweek game to start us off on a monday night. we sure appreciate the conversation and the reporting from robert costa, ashley parker, jonathan lemire. great appreciation on a monday night. coming up for us, donald trump holds his first state visit as he welcomes the french president to washington. later, bush 41 s biographer, jon meacham, sta
at the end of the day. you guys all brought your midweek game to start us off on a monday night. we sure appreciate the conversation and the reporting from robert costa, ashley parker, jonathan lemire. great appreciation on a monday night. coming up for us, donald trump holds his first state visit as he welcomes the french president to washington. later, bush 41 s biographer, jon meacham, standing by to talk to us about the health of the former president, which has sadly taken a bad turn. he s in icu and critical in houston tonight, just days of course after his wife s funeral. the 11th hour just getting started on a monday evening.
sort of detail there s some nuance missing there because sort of in his eagerness to push stuff through, some of it has been done in a sort of shoddy and sloppy way and is not standing up to court challenges. so he is not actually doing all the things that the president thinks, but he is someone who the president can affirmatively point to and who conservative groups are still really strongly supporting as pushing the president s agenda. now, if that is enough to carry him through, i don t know, another cascade of stories, we sort of don t know yet. but even when people in the white house and the administration are sort of furious and ready to throw up their hands, the president isn t, and he is the person whose voice and decision matters at the end of the day. you guys all brought your midweek game to start us off on a monday night. we appreciate the conversation and the reporting from robert costa, ashley parker, jonathan lemire. great appreciation on a monday night. coming up fo