wrong. he says as it relates to john bolton, who has also asked the courts to weigh in, he says that john bolton could potentially testify that he withheld the aid to ukraine because he wanted to fight corruption. and then also suggesting that rick perry and mike pompeo and mick mulvaney could also potentially testify. but future presidents should in no way be compromised. so we ve had the ruling from judge jackson, we know that the white house, at least the justice department is planning to appeal. as that percolates up the courts, the president is giving us his view of what s at stake and what he s defending. he ran to get in front of the camera for run before. he s saying i m taking the high road, doing what s best for democracy, doing what s best for the presidency and not trying to hide anything. every president at some point
argument, which is about the money, that he s skipping. he didn t put the work in. he s just writing a check, which is like you and me writing $20 on a check. here s what he had to say about that. are you trying to buy the presidency? for years i ve been using my resources for the things that matter to me. i was lucky enough to build a successful company. it has been very successful and i ve used all of it to give back to help america. on one hand, that was an argument that worked for donald trump. is it going to work here, though? it s a different electorate, first of all, and he s a different guy. i think you re right. the donald trump election changed everything and how most americans look at politics. history is replete with people that have tremendous amounts of money running for office. they don t always win because your message does go before the money. so if people don t like mike bloomberg, no matter how much money he spends, he s not going to go anywhere. having said
running commentaries including the last president who taught constitutional law. with the exception of dick cheney, strong vice president he was for a brief time. he was in charge. he was motivated by the theory of the unitary executive. he thought he was restoring powers ha the presidency had lost in the wake of watergate. he and donald rumsfeld were in the white house at that moment when a reassertive congress started putting more shackles on the presidency. he saw this as a great intellectual project. he talked about this, talked about this before 9/11, too. i m here partly to restore the executive branch. i don t think donald trump was necessarily motivated by that theory of governance before he came into the white house. i think he s, like a lot of his defenses in general, he s grabbing whatever is available and throwing it against the wall. just a quick point here about the importance of judges in our process. there s a report on the hill yesterday that the majority of
don t have kings in the united states, suggesting that don mcgahn and maybe others need to testify, that there is no absolute immunity. well, president trump has now tweeted three times in a row in the last hour or maybe much less than that. let me go back to hans nichols at the white house. what is the president saying? reporter: the president is making an argument on executive prerogative and he s saying he s trying to defend the presidency from these investigations, and what he says are totally unfair. the president is saying he would like to have people like don mcgahn, mike pompeo, rick perry testify, but he says he has to preserve it for future presidents. so he s really wrapping himself up in the institution of the executive, the institution of the presidency, and that s why he doesn t quite come out and say that he s preventing them from testify. but let me read it to you. other than that, and the that being that i m fighting for future presidents, i would actually like peopl