tampa bay and dad is saying it is just not true. joining me now to break it all down fox nation host abby. abby do you believe any of the reports first and if he does retire what he going to do with that retirement? dads know best so moms and dads know best but look, i don t know. i m guessing that he s going to retire but this probably got leaked it is actually really sad. because so much goes into that decision to make a retirement speech about and i just he wasn t able to do that the opportunity was taken away from him but look if he does ends up retiring he has a lot to hang his hat on because you mention 7 super bowl rings you re waiting tonight three more. these are right, and look, i mean, you reflect on his career 1 the and started his sending year took the patriots to first ever super bowl and then he stayed with them for 20 seasons and then he goes you know what i think i can win somewhere else he goes to
of this? i don t think anyone knows what the white house is trying to leverage out of this at this point. the fact of the matter is you have the centrists being led by a retiring speaker of the house. then you ve got the ultraconservatives and freedom caucus which feel em boldened as a result of that retirement speech from paul ryan. there s a remarkable tension in terms of politics shaping the dynamic of this immigration debate. but let s take out the politics for a second. because you know,ardless of whether you re a republican or a democrat, this debate on immigration has been going on for so long and when you have children that are being separated from their parents and their families on father s day, this is without question not a good this is not a winning political issue for democrats or republicans and most people outside of washington cannot understand the inaction of congress and government to move
roy moore? no. after a half minute of consideration. why? because the party is now the party of steve bannon and they all live any republican who s not stepping down or doesn t plan to run for re-election, all lives in fear of being primary ed, all lives in fear of that particular shadow. so do i see a kind of bob packwood treatment to expel him. i see that as unlikely. again it would have to wait for a democratically controlled senate. this is illume nattive of a broader thing. jeff flake when he gave his retirement speech said i will not be complicit or silent and i don t want to be too hard on jeff flake. say what you said in a text or i ll read it. what is jeff flake doing at the white house? is he just clueless? does he not know that there s a
allegations of misconduct, including sexual misconduct. he has denied the allegations. conyers also said this morning that he is endorsing his son john conyers iii to replace him. new york times national political correspondent, also an msnbc contributor. and charles stober, new york times domestic affairs correspondent, joins me as well. the congressman, again, retiring here, not resigning. he did not cite the recent allegations as a reason. he endorses his son to succeed him. is this going to be enough to satisfy his critics? i think it s enough to satisfy his critics in that he is stepping down and will no longer be serving in the house. as your viewers might remember, both nancy pelosi and speaker paul ryan asks for him to resign. i got the call from his great nephew ian conyers at about 12:30 telling me he was going to step down. even though the congressman didn t cite those allegations in his retirement speech when he
united states. a current secretary of state who had been the number two candidate for president in 2008 deeply, intimately tied to the russians. you have a campaign manager john podesta whose brother was lobbying for the russians. all these things come together. you have real questions about how the f.b.i. and the justice department were handling all this. and it s only now that it s starting to unravel. it is no wonder president trump was so frustrated. he is sitting there going i didn t do any of this. that dossier is a total lie and now he is watching everything he said be vindicated. sandra: because i ve got you i ll fire up a couple questions here. i want to ask you about jeff flake and that dramatic retirement speech. he says he will not be vindictive toward the trump agenda. your response to that. i think jeff flake is a citizen serving his country and has deep disagreements with the president. i think he will vote for the tax cuts. i think he will help mitch