everyone who watches tv knows rarely do you see foreign heads of state announcing domestic prosecutions as a u.s. news event. but this goes to how important it was as programming, whether you want to call that propaganda, reality show programming, or the heart of the bribery plot, it was programming that trump wanted. they re looking to shape an actor, this is their modus operandi, they have to stick to this notion, it wasn t russia, it was ukraine. you said bad faith. a lot of people get in the habit of saying, is it true or not true, and why would you take a risk for something not true? that s a framework that doesn t really apply to how donald trump thinks. it s better if you never find the missing emails, it s better if the criminal probe is never resolved, it s better if, as he was winning more delegates because of rules that favored him, you say it s rigged because then you have this cart that the
television show, who will get the rose at the end of the episode. then everyone drops out or provokes a backlash saying, what, that person shouldn t be the head of the fbi. several early contenders were political people who are no law enforcement or national security experience. wildly inappropriate choices for the head of this agency at this time. there was a pretty broad consensus across political lines. are you suggesting experience in reality show programming is not directly transferrable to filling the law enforcement post? i m saying what had looked like it would be an orchestrated, scripted process that would then result in the naming of somebody, and we know they wanted to do that before trump even went on this trip to the middle east and that that collapsed because they couldn t find someone who was appropriate who the president would accept and who would do the job. it has now sort of become this