then, according to mueller, lie to him. it makes no sense and i m curious to see what happened. shannon: we know one of the main points of contention between the president s legal team and the mueller team has been this idea that they are looking into potential obstruction of justice. we have a report tonight from cnn, i want to read part of this. in a hectic eight days after president donald trump fired fb, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and top fbi officials viewed trump as a leader who needed to be reined in, according to two sources. they discussed a range of options, including the idea of rosenstein wearing a wire while speaking withdrawn, he later denied. ultimately, then acting fbi director andrew mccabe took the extraordinary step of opening and obstruction of justice investigation even before special counsel robert mother was so appointed, according to sources. andy, your reaction? sounds to me like some documents are going to be spelling out, shannon, that peopl
represents the interest of african-americans and millennials. if you look at the base that voted during this midterms that came out in droves, predominantly millennials and african-americans and so she was saying that the caucus, the democratic caucus does not represent the people that pulled it together. neil: and striking her comments, these were after meeting nancy pelosi. you think she would say yeah i m reined in. she didn t sound like a reined in potential opponent. who, marcia fudge? yes. and i think they would vote for hakeem jeffreys, the co-chair. and i think he is a really, really good opponent to take against pelosi. neil: you don t think that nancy pelosi is going to succeed? i don t think that she has the votes. if you listen to what kat just said when you have that many people coming in and saying we
we re going to prevent that. again, the days of them just getting away with this stuff are over. it s not going to happen. starting january 3rd. we have a budget battle coming and we re going to insist on protecting miller if they want democratic votes. can you insist that he fund more? mueller is funded through next september, i believe. you didn t have to issue the comey oath of loyalty oath there because there was all of this, you know, footage of him on tv, whitaker on tv showing that he was loyal. he auditioned for this job. the vox reporting is that he not only met several times in the oval office but had one on one conversations, phone conversations with whitaker as well. and i think the answer to the question do you want the mueller investigation to be reined in, his answer, that s a stupid question. you re stupid. mueller is hearing that as consciousness of guilt. the answer is of course i want it reined in. why do you think i just appointed whitaker. i m n
he s buying. it s obviously true on a daily basis. the second is obstruction of justice. if you look at the last three days. just the last three days. it s happened since he got into office. but in the last three days, he s fired the attorney general and put in an acting attorney general who has publicly written an op-ed saying the mueller investigation should be reined in. it s out of control the witch hunt and he said, mr. trump said on wednesday, if the house of representatives performs its constitutional function of oversight of this president, that if the democrats do what the constitution orders them to do as their job, that he will adopt a, quote, war-like stance toward them. he will investigate them mccarthy style. look, tom, you have been a great guest on our program. i think on the legal questions around impeachment. i don t know if you are right. we have to see what mueller find and the full report shows. on the blue wave, i this i the
what does this tell you, especially that photo? well, we have a virtually the exact same photo from yesterday, him doing the same thing to jim acosta. and he s also called jim and john karl and many others stupid and dumb question, and that photo right there is chilling for a lot of reasons. i come from the news world, but i also have worked on communications for presidential candidates. and there needs to be a lower temperature with regard to this administration, how the press is handled. it just needs to go down. look, when you re the president of the united states and you ask for the resignation of your ag and replace him with someone that has been critical of the mueller investigation, as a president, you should be prepped that one of the questions you re going to be asked is are you expecting this mueller investigation to be reined in. abby s question was not a stupid question. it was the question of the day. he simply just didn t want to answer it. so instead of answering the q