So theoretically, you they he has taped people inside of the white house . He threatened comey. He said, you know, you have to watch out. He insinuated that there might be tapings. She said this about the interview that President Trump gave to Msnbc News Last year in which she discussed the firing. He was being prepped by hope hi hi hicks and thecomes team to say that the doj had come up with this memo so they could justify the fire thing of comey. And you were in on it, too . That is definitely a hope hicks Press Secretary Type of thing. So if thecomes team prepped him to lie to lester holt they prepped him everyday. Did you ask the question why we are lying . All the time. The answer was . This is how they do it. This is the Trump Administration. This is her assessment of the president s ability to do his job. They want to talk to her. Fake news. Laura trump, again the wife of eric trump, had this to say to sean hannity tonight. What an Incredible Opportunity she wasted. The presiden
jennifer lewis, a democrat running for my father s congressional seat. his father, the congressman, shares the house judiciary committee and was among those who interrogated the now fired fbi agent, peter strzok, during a hearing last month. today, the son took another public shot at his dad, saying, quote, i m deeply embarrassed that peter strzok s career was ruined by my father s political grandstanding. that committee hearing was a low point for congress. the political family discord also extends to the west wing of the white house. immigration hardliner stephen miller, he of the trump white house senior staff, has been raked over the coals by his own uncle, in a scathing op-ed for politico. miller may be best known as the architect of the zero tolerance crackdown on the southern border. but his uncle points to the family s rich immigrant history. he says miller s grandfather fled violence in eastern europe with just $8 in his pocket to make a life in the united states.
and do your thing. new tonight, one of the nation s top experts on the military and national security urging h.r. mcmaster to step down as national security advisor for president trump. writing in an op-ed for politico, quote, i worry that having people like mcmaster around trump simply enables trump so i think mcmaster should step down, not just for his own good but for the good of the country. outfront now, the author of that piece, thomas ricks who s covered the u.s. military for more than 35 years and is also the author of the brand new book churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom. you have known general mcmaster since he was a major, more than two decades you have known him. you say he is one of the nation s most thoughtful generals. obviously he s led troops in combat in two different wars in iraq. why do you think he should step
is it perhaps the may patriotic thing for h.r. mcmaster to stay? it is absolutely possible. in fact i believed it until recently. but watching h.r. mcmaster the last couple of weeks, i ve come to think the opposite, that it s not good for the country or for h.r. mcmaster. that the less effect donald trump has as president, the better. so we have the rest of the government kind of chugging along by its own. i think it s a good idea to have general mattis at the pentagon and the rest of the federal government seems to do well. i m saying we don t really have a president right now, we have one who plays one on tv and on twitter. that s fine, just let him do that and let the rest of the government run itself. all right, tom, i appreciate your time. thank you very much. you can read tom s full op-ed in politico. next, the man who will steer the president through the snowballing russia investigation. who is power attorney marc kasowitz? and breaking news from a portland courtroom. the
economic and security issues. a new proposal could make oklahoma the strictest state in the nation when it comes to drunk driving. a new film thelma which focuses on the passage of the civil rights act is getting a whole lot of criticism for the betrayal of president lyndon b. johnson. congressman john lewis talked with andrea mitchell about the movie in an interview to air today at noon eastern. do you think the film is unfair to lyndon johnson? i don t think the film it s art, it s drama. i loved the film. the film is so real. it is powerful. it made me cry. outgoing republican congressman mike rogers has written a new op-ed for politico titled why congress is broken. in it he talks about pettiness and small-minded meanness and