do you think trump is re-upping? he obviously could have ignored. this was a deeply personal interview in the daily beast. do you think he s re-upping these attacks to have fresh ammunition? what s the i.g. report going to say based on your reporting? the i.g. report is going to sta say a lot. it s more than 400 pages. there are going to be a lot of different takeaways. i think the primary one was there wasn t some sinister politically motivated plot to take down the president, right? no spying. well, the spying issue is a semantic one. you know, people who say that the fbi ran an informant and at least one informant, maybe more in an undercover agtd at george papadopoulos. there are people who are going to interpret that. if you are using an informant to spy on these people who were associated with the campaign at
the ocean. that s what i learn every summer. we re seeing them increasing in cape cod. meanwhile, there s a pattern emerge oging of the people president trump likes to attack and those he likes to leave alo alone. here s a hint. the one who is he leaves alone tend to be male and white. john avalon has our reality check. john, what is this about? look. if anyone s voked at the president s attacks on the congresswomen of color, they haven t been paying attention. it s a reflection of trump s long-time impulses. in october cnn analyzed his twitter feed and found he used the bully pulpit to attack 82 men and 22 women. but the top line stats don t reflect the frequency of his attack. reupping the phrase crooked hillary. but lately he s been trying to expand his self-selected face of
co-equal with president trump, which is something the north koreans have long desired. accordingly, i think, he s going to be very solicitous of president trump and their personal relationship. but in the meantime, he s also achieving an objective of his, which is he wants to be seen as a legitimate member of the nuclear club. in other words, another nuclear nation in the world. de facto, he already is. so i think it s very unlikely, and we re seeing signs of that, that they re really going to denuclearize, or if they do, it s not because of what washington demands, it s going to be because of the relationship with the south. with the south, not with the u.s. so we can see from this image what appears to be the sort of the re-upping of long-range missile capabilities. so even as there is this maybe chummy relationship even in the absence of a deal, that is what s going on behind the scenes. the president has been lauding
whole. when you pull back a little bit, somebody who is also looking at this is, of course, democrats on the house oversight committee led by adam schiff. he was on the set with chuck over the weekend. here s a little of what he had to say. the people who were closest to watching father and son during the campaign, people like steve bannon, have said that there is zero chance that don junior did not discuss that meeting with his father before it happened or after it happened. should you have waited until there was evidence before speculating about that? the point i made was not speculation. the point i made was, we should find out. we should get those records. okay. you can t run a cred bible investigation if you don t look for documentary proof, assume everybody is telling the truth. we ve seen the problems of that approach. schiff with intel, not oversight, of course. when you look at the way he is running that investigation, reupping that now that the democrats control t
liberties, don t insult people who were not being criminally charged versus public s disclosure of a matter of enormous more than public importance. this is going to be complicated and barr has not committed himself in any specific way. he says i d like to be transparent. we d all like a lot of things, but that is that is not necessarily consistent with the other values he s talking about, protecting classified information, executive privilege, rights of the innocent. so all of that is going to come into play. i heard you guys earlier and i think it s worth, you know, reupping, the conversation of wiggle room and some of his answers too. it is my intent to do x. within the confines exactly. as long as its consistent with laws and regulations. yeah. as any good lawyer, he s trying to give himself the maximum latitude to protect himself and because he doesn t know exactly what he s walking in to. i think he admitted he s not on the inside. his 19 page memo, he didn t