responsible. and especially just a couple of days before this helsinki meeting this really seems to underscore that president trump is hesitant to blame vladimir putin for this. he has said in the last couple of days that he plans to talk to putin about election meddling. but the president says he doesn t want to belabor the point. doesn t want it to get in the way of a summit that he thinks should be about several other issues and about building a potentially positive relationship with russia. on the other hand, as you pointed out, a lot of democrats are saying that the president should go ahead and cancel the meeting that the indictments really poison the well and prohibit any sort of progress being made on the united states front. and john mccain a republican senator sfr arizona also weighing in saying if president trump is unwilling to stand up for the united states with putin in this meeting he should cancel the summit. but the but the white house is not really taking any of tha
and to the extent the ultimate fact finder here is congress in an impeachment proceeding, then public opinion matters. and if he can poison the well through his tweets, maybe he sees it as being well served to do so and it may be an effective strategy. msnbc contributor, barbara mcquade, thank you so much on this sunday. thank you. productive or gangster like? what s behind the starkly different views of the same meetings between the u.s. and north korea? got legs of lumber and arms of steel he eats a bowl of hammers at every meal he holds your house in the palm of his hand he s your home and auto man big jim, he s got you covered great big jim, there ain t no other -so, this is covered, right? -yes, ma am. take care of it for you right now. giddyup! hi! this is jamie. we need some help. alright guys let s go! let s do this directions to the greek theater (beep) can i get a connection?
here? there he is. we re here. dana: he was the co author of let trump but trump and marie hartman. i thought we were going to break. here you are. glad you are. we were talking about this i.g. report. there s a hearing underway. we re going to get to that in just a moment. while i have you here, as the judge just described, he feels like the separation of families from parents from their children, mothers from their babies is child abuse and certainly people have strong feelings about, this it s getting ratcheted up. david, what do you think about this, letting trump be trump but is he poison the well so much that he s going to lose good will? this is not the president s law. this law has been on the books. this president is following the law. that s what he s doing, that s what he s been doing. what he s trying to do is
in washington, couldn t get him here, jonathan swan political reporter for axios. let me start with you, paul butler. the idea that bob mueller who years, his term was extended worked for democrats and fbi directors do, would be leading a team trying to frame the prt of the united states. that seems to be outlandish even in tse outlandish times. yeah, and if you re political, for the record, he s a republican as is his boss rod rosenstein. so what this is about is attacking the prosecution i guess because they feel like they don t have another defense. and seally their defense is this extraordinahat nothing the president could do would constitute obstruction of justice, and that he has the ability to pardon himself. so, they re trying to poison the well. it s really the tv lyer, rudy gi is doing job, but e scary thing is it s working
be able to move past this investigation. if indeed trump and giuliani are correct, this will be won or lost in the court of public opinions, if you re able to soldify 40% of that court, that may be enough to muddy the waters and not have your own party coalesce around the notion you ve done something so wrong it requires you to be removed from office. that s the argument against reading the conspiracy theories verbatim. it does poison the well. let s move on to tonight, tennessee, so what do we expect with the president, you know, trying to rally around these republican candidates? asking me what i expect what the president will do in a rally is a tough one to answer because it will be whatever his whim is at the moment. where he s going tonight is really important, alisyn. the democrats chances of taking control of the senate, even in a very good democratic year are still very steep, but they can t