difficult? you never could get to him, he had such a palace guard, and great people, but they protected him and for them everything was whether it was good for him politically, not whether or not it was actually good in the policies of the state. mark: and then you decided at some point to run for president. that was a brilliant idea, wasn t it, mark, turned out well. mark: well, you know what? 2012. yep. mark: was rather bruising, the republican primary. what happened then? well, that was the one i set out. a lot of people said i should have gone into that. i ran in 08. mark: right, right, that s what i meant. it was a tough time. we went through eight years of president bush, his approval ratings were very low at this point. it was going to be difficult to win. mark: you are a very nice guy. see how he did, that folks, i got the date wrong, he said that s when i sat out, this is
strategy. the president hasn t outlined a way to use diplomacy and our allies. it would probably be a strike done unilaterally by the united states and a one-day, one off kind of act that would give rise to that impression. that he s doing it for political covering his rear. i was wrong. actually, mr. manafort is still holding strong. he s under pressure to turn. but we re looking at a lot of the pressure on a lot of people around trump including those who turned to become witnesses for the prosecution. thank you very much, peter, ashley, and senator richard blumenthal. paul ryan announces he won t run again. he s leading the republican exodus out of congress. republicans haven t been a check on president trump. they re useless at the leadership level. maybe sick and tired of being his palace guard. plus, trump has turned an attack on syria with a bigger fight with russia.
shouldn t be questioning you. it took a little warming him up to get him red hot and i think that came from the palace guard who really wanted to try to appeal to him and get in his good graces. i was surprise today hear a lot of that yesterday. the white house staff, just to generalize the kinds of conversations i had, they were more mad at kelly for calling the president uninformed than they were with the president for being uninformed. all right, the beat goes on. jim, thank you so much. i hope you ll come back early and often. when we come back, the sex scandal that wasn t. why a brand-new sex scandal involving an alleged $130,000 pay out and a porn star is already being dismissed as no big deal by political observers, and why they just might be wrong about that. [ click, keyboard clacking ] [ click, keyboard clacking ] [ keyboard clacking ]
eric, you were at the table not getting in a word edgewise and this deal keeps coming back. a favorite of republicans. right. is there evidence that there s coordination that republican lawmakers are coordinating with republican members of what you could call state media to bring it back up? absolutely. this is the playbook. this is what they always do. uranium-1 produced by breitbart. the new york times got a chunk out of it. they thought they d do a deal with bannon empty campaign. not a good idea. you know, i was joking on twitter. who remembers uranium-1? that was the hysteria of november and then the fbi. taking a couple steps back, you are talking about jaw dropping and breath taking. this is a palace guard essentially the republican party has now decided to construct wall after wall after wall around trump. it is not just uranium-1. it s deputy mccabe. it s mueller. comey. they just building wall after wall.
balloter and jonathan capehart. eric, you were at the table not getting in a word edgewise and this deal keeps coming back. a favorite of republicans. right. is there evidence that there s coordination that republican lawmakers are coordinating with republican members of what you could call state media to bring it back up? absolutely. this is the playbook. this is what they always do. uranium-1 produced by breitbart. the new york times got a chunk out of it. they thought they d do a deal with bannon empty campaign. not a good idea. you know, i was joking on twitter. who remembers uranium-1? that was the hysteria of november and then the fbi. taking a couple steps back, you are talking about jaw dropping and breath taking. this is a palace guard essentially the republican party has now decided to construct wall after wall after wall around trump.