tear down the house. he wants to burn the village but not in order to save it. well, while i have you, let me get you then on james clapper s response to that rally in phoenix that night. he watched it live and his immediate reaction was that he didn t think that the man he saw in phoenix was fit to possess the nation s nuclear codes. look, i think we have to walk on careful ground when assigning psychiatric you know? not one of us can diagnose him. there s a quality of demagoguery in that speech. the attack on the media as bad people which is i mean, i guess we re no longer shocked because we have been sort of swimming in this rhetoric for so long. but that s demagogic and i m scared to say this but ultimately some journalist is going to be hurt by someone who listens to the president and that will fall on trump s shoulders. so the rhetoric is not only dangerous to the country but
were those the words you d use to describe the phoenix rally? i described the phoenix rally as a twitter feed come alive because we saw the president air his grievances and the president and president trump has always had a different view of his performance than most of the news media coverage. i know that sounds obvious, but this is something we have been following for over two years since he entered the national political arena as a candidate. he s someone who s always had a different perspective about the size of his crowds. about the his performance in general. you know, that s such a good point and i think that he s probably more in tune with and in touch with the way that 33% of the country that counts itself as solidly in his corner experiences the full 360 trump experience. but it s interesting that he seems to be in denial that when
are you afraid? i am i m concerned. i don t feel, you know, physically afraid. but i want this to stop. this is this is wrong. this is not this is a misrepresentation, against the news media who have always as thomas jefferson realized, as all the founders realize, played a vital role in this democracy. and it s our job to hold public officials accountable. that s why freedom of the press is in the first amendment and it is we have not heard this kind of rhetoric from a president before. and it should stop. it must stop. all right. i hope he s listening to you, gene. when we come back a key figure behind the new infamous dossier of unsubstantiated claims against president trump.
but you wouldn t be surprised to learn he has. he was a top flight investigative journalist at the wall street journal. whatever he s testifying to this is not a fly by night operation that is impugning the president. this is something that should scare the white house and i m repeating myself. i think you can kind of see that in the length of this testimony, ten hours to put it in context, jared kushner who was he testified in front of a different senate committee, but he was there for the morning. and the number of documents turned over. 40,000 documents. the trump campaign has turned over 20,000 documents. so this guy who wrote the dossier has turned over twice as many documents as the entire trump campaign with all the e-mails and schedules and related documents so that really got my antenna up. i d be careful about it. he s an excellent journalist. we were discussing it during the break that the stuff in the new york times and washington
peeved trump was that mitch mcconnell didn t have his back and what cost comey his job he didn t like the way he was investigating russia. and jeff sessions, what got his ire was russia. the number one thing that donald trump should want is a stack on his desk of completed reports from robert mueller and the house and the senate saying you re exonerated. that s not what he s getting and the great irony that only struck me this afternoon what is happening to donald trump on russia is what happened to hillary clinton on e-mails last year. every day was something new day after day. it s hard to escape the fact that it s sort of predictable. wow. i have never seen the two things tied together, hillary clinton and e-mails and donald trump on russia. the fight over keeping the government open that comes back to that wall. what ever happened to mexico paying for it?