you may want to include that excerpt, okay? it s like writing a book about a guy going into a bank. robbed it. and leaving out the excerpt that he was going to the atm to take money out. kind of an important excerpt to leave out, is it not? this has to be here is one of two explanations. either the new york times is full of colossal moron with the iq of a rabbit or secondly, the new york times is deliberately trying to smear a good man because they are trying to send a message ahead of some supreme court case. listen to me, there is no option c, okay? those are your two options. you say is dead and this is exhibit a on that. i m sure you were watching on september 11th. took live to the commemoration where the families of victims read the names one of them is nicholas jr. who mows mother died in the south tower he
he showed bias? no, i don t see any bias in text messages. he calls him every vile name in the book to lisa page and talked about how unacceptable he is and talked about insurance plan but he sees no bias in it. either he is acting like the king of england and the fbi totally divorced from any of their policies and procedures or he is being intentionally inaccurate. brian, he is either the greatest manipulator in the history of the fbi or outright liar. there is no option c here. and you just brought up another one. we missed this one. he also said he wasn t sure that christopher steele was the source of the dossier. wait, what? you get this information about a potential presidential potential president committing treason with the russians? hey? who said that? oh, don t worry, the guy in the corner in a bagel shop you know the guy with the tin foil cap? you didn t think to ask
have the white house and even the president s lawyer lie, publicly, blatantly lie? well listen, i never think lying is a good idea. i think what the legal team is trying to do is put out the best case they can up front. again, if lying were a crime, there wouldn t be, i don t think, three people left in the united states. in this 20-page letter the president s lawyers in january admitted that the president dictated donald trump jr. s response to the trump tower meeting where he was promised dirt an hillary clinton. jay sekulow, the president s lawyer, repeatedly and publicly said the opposite for like a month last year. sarah sanders flatout said he certainly did not dictate the letter. now we know the president certainly did dictate the letter. so either the president lied to them or they lied to us. there s really no option c here, correct? i think that s correct. if i were betting i think the president probably would say, hey, my recollection on if i did
republican lawmakers, will you support the re-election bid of donald trump, the president of the united states, the standard bear, the nominal leader of your party? but faced with this very straightforward question instead of choosing option a, yes, option b, no, a surprising number are choosing option c, squirm. this should tell you something, a lot in advance of what could be a very tough midterm. our manu raju chased them down and looked for answers. manu? hey, john. a wide array of house and senate republicans tell me they are just not ready to endorse president trump s bid for a second term really a sign of the deep uncertainty on the hill of his political standing amid his growing problems and the tenuous relationship he continues to have with his own party. now i spoke to more than two dozen republican lawmakers representing a cross section of the party and for the most part, members were mum. they said it was just too early
getting out and where i think most of the international community including secretary mattis and others would want him to be. he is saying we will stay there. we will continue the fight. but we want our regional allies to come in and eventually one day be able to do this on their own. what was your take away? i m not as critical richard was. i think this was a classic option b speech where option a is go big, really destabilize the regime, rock them, big strike, option c is do very little. this was a version of b and c in the middle. i had a couple take aways. first, secretary of defense jim mattis plays a significant role in these decisions. his stature, which we feared had been significantly undercut by the departure of his friend rex