neil: not just maxine. you could win the house and drive the president crazy with oversight hearings and drive him nuts and maybe that s the way to go, defeat instead of impeach. neil: what do you think of that? well, the impeachment talk is another form of a tantrum and we ve been seeing these tantrums from folks who are ill-disposed for the president on the left and right. certainly from the left since november, 2016. as kathy points out, it would be exceedingly counterproductive also for the democrats to run on this. when basically what they re saying, we re going to impeach. if they say we re going to completely waste the american public s time. neil: but it does rally the day. and it does rally the right to talk about them rallying the left. i think it does and especially off the political overplaying of the democrats hand from kavanaugh. we re seeing that they re keeping in analysis and run on
potentially. and there always is the risk of overplaying one s hand. in this case you have some real substantive meaty issues that congressional staffs are really well prepared and uniquely situated to dive into. democrats are already doing this type of opposition research or just vetting of some of these decisions. it doesn t need to be researchers in some cases. every avenue they ve ever had to try and get trump s tax returns, for example. that s a great example. we have security clearances. we have hurricane maria response. i mean, there are so many things that fit more into the traditional play book of what you would see an opposition party going after a president for. we kind of forget about those types of things because we re so focused on the scandal of the moment in the trump presidency, which are you haven t even mentioned scott pruitt. right, many cases like quite sensati sensational. scott pruitt is a good example. a type of scandal like that would hamstring and
natural security advisor john bolton clarifying president trump s claim we are being hindered by the russian hoax. that came on the same day his top intelligence and national security officials spoke out about the real and current threat of russian election interference. elaina beverly and chris wilson, republican strategist. chris, do you agree with what john bolton said there? you know, it s tough to get into that. i don t know enough about the situation it get into whether what is correct and isn t correct. i think there is an overplaying in terms of the significance and what you look at from the past, from what campaigns have done in the past and cooperating. i don t know that it s as big a deal. and the question, elaina, is it reading well with his base because he is on the road, the president is. just in ohio. he is going to be hitting more cities in the coming week as we get close and go through the primaries. right. well, so certainly election
to be clear, this is a mess of the president s own making. he is fixing something he created, not democrats, not republicans, not congress. i think it is a combination of the two. i know the pictures have been playing out, but if anyone understands the visceral reaction to pictures of children, i think when you add that, the pressure from within the party no question. and inside the administration, whether it s the white house or the department of homeland security, they complain, they say the media is overplaying this, the media is hyping this too much. they say the democrats are playing politics with immigration. interesting to hear the trump administration to say that. welcome to the election year. but listen, to understand the president is retreating here. he s caving, as dana says. listen to the president. this is just yesterday. the same arguments were being made. mr. president, do something with your executive powers. stop this, help your party and help these children. the
this is pretty cool outcome. yes. they re embracing it. oh, this is great. they don t this is this is a benefit, not necessarily a flaw. and to your point remember when jeff sessions rolled out this policy he talked ubadding about 20 more judges to handle the crisis i thought there should be 100. and then ted cruz calls for adding a couple more hundred judges. the president said why do we need to hire thousands more judges. and somebody also said he doesn t want them in, he doesn t want asylum seekers to succeed. but i would also say democrats see a tremendous democratic opportunity here. they put a bill forward. now it s not just a bill because mitch mcconnell has a bill. that s where they could look, everybody has a danger of sort of overplaying. go solve with the problem with a