twrooets, very important that inform players stand tomorrow, that means today, and always for the playing of our national anthem, respect our flag and country. i m joined by diehard eagles fan ed rendell and also robert traynh traynham. governor, if you were advising the president and you agreed with his perspective, would you keep suggesting that he tweet about this issue? absolutely not. the majority of americans do in fact agree with the president s position. players should stand during the national anthem. but where he is losing people is not in that stand, but he s losing people by continuing to tweet about this when puerto rico and the virgin islands are desperately awaiting federal help, when we have a problem with north korea. the average voter will just hold their head in their hands and
perhaps, political barbs and that s the end of it and move on to the next thing. this is a rare occasion reserved for times of war, peace, perhaps impeachment where all senators are in their seats, symbolizing the democrats concern about the gravity of this situation, the implications for separation of powers, obviously the concern that the investigation ongoing by the fbi, the fbi director fired. outrage has been called has been expressed. special prosecutor calls have abounded from the democratic side. even many republicans as you ve been reporting, richard burr, john mccain, corker, langford, flake, stalwarts on the conservative side have expressed reservations about what has occurred here. so you ll see republicans sitting there as well as democrats. i m in the basement of the russell building where many senators have gone through this tunnel here under constitution avenue and are now in their seats in the senate chamber. all right, back with me my panel, steve kornacki and ro
have to wonder about the sort of psychological effect on the fbi. i want to bring my panel in. jeremy bash is a former chief of staff for the cia and the defense department, also an msnbc national security analyst. navid jamali a former fbi double agent and author of how to catch a russian spy. on set with me steve kornacki, political correspondent for nbc and msnbc and robert traynham, a former advisor to the 2000 bush campaign. jeremy, kellyanne conway already said this morning it is totally inappropriate to question the timing of president trump taking this action. but for you, what was the most shocking, what happened, why it happened or the timing? well, what was shocking to me was that the president would move against the one federal investigation that actually could hold his inner circle in criminal jeopardy. remember, stephanie, there are three federal investigations,
i think what we saw from the yates hearing is perhaps the most tangible thing against trump himself, which is that he was informed that there was a security concern about flynn. now again, a security concern doesn t have to be something that is actually going to be born out, but when someone is presented when you re in a position that has trust and confidence and if you are put in a position where there s doubt about your ability to do so objectively and more importantly a security concern, you have to be removed until that is mitigated. and the fact that the president decided not to do that i think is troubling and that s perhaps the most tangible thing we ve seen. robert, sean spicer, sarah huckabee sanders or kellyanne conway saying the president can do whatever he wants. a lot of republicans have already weighed in and i want to share a bit of that. john mccain said he was disappointed in the president s decision. richard burr said he was troubled by the timing and reasoning. b