he loves it. this is him against the world. the bigger the battle, the more important he is. he defines himself by the size of this battle. there s an old quote, those born to the storm find the calm very boring. he does find that boring. from his standpoint, this was his opportunity as you were talking with scott, he s talking directly to his base. they listen to that 30 minutes of that interview, they re taking away from that, oh, god, the mueller investigation, as we ve always thought, it is a witch hunt. they re looking at, oh, gosh, michael cohen is in trul and it s of his own doing. look, the president is on fire and he s doing great. he s energetic, he s exactly the person that we voted for and we elected. the problem is, some of the things he said, as you say, contradicting himself and saying both sides of many of these topics and getting himself into legal jeopardy with regard to the cohen investigation. this is all the more reason why rudy giuliani needs to say this i
want to hear that sort of nationalist populist coal country message is out there. i will also argue that roseanne is a well known star who had a tv series that lasted 12 years. but the irony of this thing that i find delicious, this is a show produced by evil liberals in an evil liberal place called hollywood. the cultural nature of the show, is that the sham or is the show itself? the entire thing is it s a perfect representation of where we re at. a reality tv president talking about a show talking about him. it s so recure i sive it s like
covered for many years. i don t recognize this as the american political system as we ve known it. exactly. for the entire two centuries of our country. we elected the first president in american history with no military experience, first reality tv president, we ve been sucked into this cesspool of mall. is there a point where republicans say to you and i publicly what they say in private? we are getting a lot of republican members of congress go home, and the problem isn t how much they stuck to donald trump. they get in trouble for not supporting him enough, which is a tough spot to be in. i do want to echo what mike said because he s right. boehner pushed people out of the house of representatives for taking a photo with their shirt off and for things that were a lot more mild than hush payments to porn stars. so paul ryan is doing the same
with the president saying get him, they re a small guy. trump is on the edge, anyway. the guy is tearing the wallpaper off-the-walls right now anyway. so i think having bolten there to encourage his worst tendencies. this reality tv president now has a reality tv staff. so turning this whole thing into a table flipping, hissy fit, hair pulling contest, it could get very ugly very quickly. bolten promised trump he wouldn t start any wars if he selected him. do crow take comfort in that? i don t. but let me give you a simple perspective on this, and that is checks and balances. we typically think of them as executive branch, judicial branch, legislative branch. in the executive branch we have checks and balances brought in my donald trump. let me have the calm guys in
house. i don t want the moment in the limousine why john bolton is saying you should nuke them to teach them a lesson. trump s on the edge anyway and having bolton there to encourage his worst tendencies and this reality tv president now has a reality tv staff and turning the whole thing into a table-flipping, hair-pulling contest can get ugly very quickly. bill: none of that was challenged by the way. wow. bill: so we re going to war and it s going to be a nuclear war. sounds like john bolton will have his finger on the nuclear button. he s getting trashed by media outlets who don t like him or his hawkish views on foreign policy. one called him a warmonger.