be answered. the president is deeply upset angry about this. people are saying mueller has gone outside the bounds of the investigation, and the question is what does the president do now. thank you very much. disclaimer and reason to get his take on all of this. you heard the president s remarks. certainly sounds like a pre amble to firing mueller or firing somebody. he is angry. when any prosecutor investigates something that touches him, his lawyer is close to him. so he is angry. he is saying a lot of things that are probably better for him not to say. the more that he says what he doesn t like, it adds to the narrative, it starts to fill in the vessel of obstruction. if he wanted to, he could
when you re trying to execute a policy and then basically an announcement that the policy has changed and not any pre amble. i understand when brener announced that the iraqi army was being disbanded. troops on the ground weren t aware. thank you for reminding me, that occurred when i was talking to 400 iraqi generals. it was when i was working as assistant commander. and we were telling them how we were going to incorporate them into the new security forces and return iraq in terms of a better society and they were going to help as retired general officers and keep their pensions and an aide handed me a note and saying it was just announced that the iraqi army is disbanded and
votes for passage. that s the way the senate rules are currently arranged. that s called reconciliation. that s the insider jargon. but what the president is also referencing is getting rid of the filibuster. but most republicans would be reluctant to do so because while that would make it easier to pass non-fiscal bills through congress, if they ever got into the minority again, they wouldn t love the idea of democrats having such an easy threshold to pass their agenda. ashley and then peter. ashley, is it taken as a given that that whole pre-amble today, the white house briefing, relate gating, re-promoting the overseas trip, say nothing of what might have been this week s agenda is for one viewer sitting in an office with who corners in the west wing? i think that s absolutely right. the president, as you know, watches the entire briefing quite closely. he often brags about sean spicer s rating. but the part sean spicer can t control is the part where he gets questions. so he is