trump is trying to intimidate sessions and mueller sessions and rosenstein to reigning in mueller and that s what this diatribe is all about. i mean, my initial reaction, frankly, watching this was it was so unseemly on so many levels. my initial reaction was, wow. bashar al assad better watch out. there s going to be a few extra airfields added to the targeting list, because trump is so pertu perturbed, he s going to take it out on assad in the next 24 hours, which is fine by me. but what i find truly outrageous about this diatribe that trump went into, this was ostensibly a national security meeting, where the joint chiefs, his so-called war cabinet, discussing the most serious issues in the war, issues of war and peace and american military action in syria. and instead of all of that, he s going to be a diatribe against the department of justice, against the dedicated max, you re a former foreign policy adviser to some pretty heavy hitters in the republican party. you re makin
really aren t too terribly far apart and the deal can be done by the august 2nd, tuesday deadline. let s listen to the president, this is when he spoke around 10:30 this morning. let s listen. good morning, everybody. i want to speak about the ongoing and increasingly urgent efforts to avoid default and reduce our deficit. right now, the house of representatives is still trying to pass a bill that the majority of republicans and democrats in the senate have already said they won t vote for. it s a plan that would force us to relive this crisis in just a few short months, holding our economy captive to washington politics once again. in other words, it does not solve the problem, and it has no chance of becoming law. what s clear now is that any solution to avoid default must be bipartisan, it must have the support of both parties that were sent here to represent the american people. not just one faction. it will have to have the support of both the house and the senate, and