had supported republican candidates said not this time to put a check and balance on the president. the court system has been, i think, very resilient in the face of his attacks. election authorities including the secretary of state in florida today have stood up for the integrity of their system. so yeah. i think we have to hope and believe that our system can withstand this, but, you know, and i must say about reporters, i was, as you know, i spent years as a journalist. it is unsettling to see what the president is doing. but i urge everyone not to take it personally. as personal as he s made it and recognize that presidents have disliked what reporters have done since the beginning of the republic. he s taking it to an extreme and a dangerous extreme but the answer is to just continue, to do our job, to do the job of journalists. the first amendment was the
going to be handled in an appropriate way. that doesn t mean mueller gets to do whatever he wants. but it does mean that it won t be unreasonably interfered with and frankly, from the president s perspective, he ought to let it go. this thing is near the end. there s no evidence of any collusion. why don t you tell him that, ken? i think you re right. you should tell him that. i ve got to go. got to go. you know he watches us, so i m sure he just heard you. ken and laura, thank you so much for joining me, i appreciate it. bye. next damning report suggested hush money payments during the 2016 campaign and how house democrats will handle subpoena power and nancy pelosi.
in place largely based about the constitution about people able to be senate confirmed, given the advice and the consent of the senate. now, this is somebody who was a principle officer in the federal government. meaning he only has to report to the president of the united states and our supreme court just last year, claerrence thom, one of the president s own favorites said for the national labor relations board, the general council for that who had to report to the president that that person had to be confirmed by the senate and could not be placed there willy-nilly. someone for the nlrb would have to go through senate, why not the person in charge of the department of justice and of course, it makes sense that would be the case. this is somebody who because of that line of succession, it could have gone with the deputy ag who was rod rosenstein and noah francisco. this is akin to, for example, if president trump himself were incapacitated and said, general kelly, why don t you?
thought the mueller investigation was illegal and out of bounds and he had prescribed ways for essentially thwarting it and one gets the distinct feeling he is there for that purpose. maybe he won t do that, but there are other things that have come up that relate to the other things on your list that are disturbing because he s written and spoken about the court system as an inferior branch of government. right. he thinks marbury was improperly decided. and if he s advising the president on the constitutionality of the things he s doing, we re in for rocky moments here. on to the next one. i m sorry for the whiplash but a lot to cover and i want your take on that all. trump is alleging.
to make sure something like this doesn t happen again. we don t know how this will play out until the next step of the progress. i see hanging chads in my head, ryan. thanks for the update. we ll check in with you later in the show but right now, the other headline. a republic, if you can keep it. with his back against the wall, the president reembarked on an all too familiar campaign to undermine and cast out on american institutions because he didn t lose control of the house. america did. almost as soon as the results were in, trump questioned the validity of the u.s. elections. unleashing a storm of tweets in the past 48 hours, without any evidence, accused election officials in florida and arizona of fraud. on wednesday, he turned his attention on the mueller investigation firing his own attorney general, jeff sessions, for failing to be his dutiful stooge at the department of justice. in his place, trump bypassed the similarly principled number two rod rosenstein and instead,