here on capitol hill, as you ve heard on a number of shows, republicans suggesting they believe the president is vindicated and heartened by the fact there were no additional indictments when mueller announced he concluded the investigation. democrats are using scope and transparency. they are reminding people whatever the mueller report may find or not find with criminal wrongdoing by the president or top aids, his charge was was li question of collusion and obstruction of justice and there are a number of other investigations and other jurisdictions throughout the country that have been spun off from the mueller report itself and of course, they have their own investigations they have been ramping up on capitol hill. so what exactly we hear here today will be critical. the thing that i think we re hearing from jerry nadler on a sunday show today is this question of whether or not the justice department, whether mueller has decided not to bring charges against the president because of
house. howie: i would like your opinion. i don t think it was overdone because i remember vividly what you were talking about when susan rice went on the sunday shows and it was all hell broke loose and i understand that people believe that she was being misleading, she was doing this and that, but as a pure factual matter the world blew up at her and called out for and makes sense if the world does the same thing to a republican member of the administration when they go on a sunday show. howie: both serious subjects, russia sanctions and in this case what happened in bing benghazi. what do you make of the endless sometimes 24/7 media speculation about whether trump will fire bob mueller or fire rod rosenstein, as a democrat you might be enjoying it. no not at all. howie: sit over the top. he s tweeting 24/7 about
promises. and donald trump right now, i m sorry to say, is right at the bottom on all of those metrics. david axelrod, senator schumer is obviously no fan of the president, said back in january that negotiating with president trump is like negotiating with jell-o. i mean based on what we ve seen, he doesn t seem to be wrong there. no, he doesn t. look, i think what happened just in this latest series of events is that he painted himself into a corner on this issue of guns, saying one thing at that public session and then getting lectured by the nra in private, and he wanted to change the subject. so he prematurely ran out with this trade announcement that wasn t ready, that defied the advice of most of his economic and national security advisers, that was light on details. you had the spectacle of the secretary of commerce appearing on a sunday show saying he didn t really know what the
the reason i ask you whether or not you think trump knew about flynn lying to the fbi, because his own lawyer thinks he knew. john dowd said in the washington post today. he said it on a sunday show that information was passed to white house counsel tom mcgann. so to put your point avoid, his lawyer says he knew, how does that change the analysis? i m not quite sure how it changes the analysis, i m not an attorney. i don t know that dowd is correct on that why would you go to comey and ask a guy to be let go, why would you do that if you re the president? we re looking at cases where the official went to the chief of police mike, let me stop you one second. no, no, i m not stopping you because i don t like what you re saying. the president spoke. i want people to hear. and others have wanted to
about these things being dead end leads. my other senator, not tim kaine, but mark warner on the senate intelligence committee said the same thing on a sunday show a couple weeks back where he said there s smoke. we haven t seen fire yet. we are going to keep checking out the smoke. obviously, this is another one of those, as john mccain said, a shoe that dropped. i m not suggesting it shouldn t be run down. i want to make sure it s put in the proper con tect. tim kaine s comment about treason when people aren t in office, i don t think there s a legal foundation for it. this is going to fuel more of the political rhetoric on capitol hill. it legitimately fuels concerns about the bottom line details of this interaction. i am curious and i don t know sitting here, when jared kushner identified this meeting in his