the different between democracy and authoritarian government is in authoritarian government there are no checks on someone s power. what s obvious is the system may have checks and balances that function. republicans are being reasonably complicit with trump s authoritarian abuses. at the same time can we ignore how long can we ignore the fact that it s clear the person himself would gladly destroy the system if it meant saving his own skin. we can say yes, the system is in place. we have stronger checks and balances than turkey and other places in the world. that doesn t mean we shouldn t take seriously the threat from someone who has the same impulses as the leaders who chipped away at the systems and lost their democratic systems. it does appear that there is a line that republicans at least for now will not allow the president to cross. we saw it yesterday with chuck grassley, and that it wasn t that strong. it wasn t that strong.
what a big mess. a complete obsession. he somehow thinks that he s going to distract people by talking about hillary clinton. well, distraction is a perfect word to frame up what he does quite often. you know mueller. is mueller distracted? bob mueller is not distracted, and if erdogan was confronted with bob mueller, he might not be there in istanbul today. to michael schmidt s point, this continues disparagement of the fbi and thus the justice system in this country is truly, truly damaging. it s incendiary. and my question to you, michael, given your knowledge and your reporting on this, do you have any sense of what donald trump s relationship is today with his legal team with ty cob and john doud? when i had the chance to talk to him last month, i asked him. i said the legal team said this
said. okay. so republicans have always basically said that s crossing the line. that was part one. the play book part two from yesterday. donald trump, it just shows everyone how broken and unfair our court system is when the opposing side in a case such as daca always runs to the 9th circuit and almost always wins before being reversed by higher courts. that s actually not a broken judicial system. that s the way the system works. you go to circuits, and eventually the supreme court determines it. barack obama had the same thing happen to him when conservatives would go to district courts in texas or georgia or mississippi or in other conservative areas. that s why rule of law separates democracies from authoritarian governments. you have a situation unfolding where it s obvious that trump attacks anything that is a check on his power.
for a run for the presidency. and that may be a fundamental change in the system. ploliticians have really let people down and abused their roles and ended up being hypocritical on both sides. we re here for a long. they just want to believe somebody. think of everyone from john mccain to joe biden to i understand. there s a great tradition of american states women and men in senate and congress. they develop expertise over time. what we re discovering is how disastrous it is when you here s a radical idea. why doesn t oprah run for senate in illinois and serve for six years and figure out how washington works? that would be great. she s a wonderful woman. that s what i said about rubio. he wasn t ready to be president
licenses of all of these places and talk about a conservative federal judge in texas and because the judge ruled against let s say a segment of obama care, if barack obama said in 2009 our court system doesn t work anymore, it s a run away court system. we ve got to fix it, republican would be freaking out. by the way, it s the same thing with bob mueller s investigation. imagine all the facts were the same but instead of jared being involved, it was chelsea. imagine hillary clinton was being investigated for russian ties. do you have a moment s doubt that republicans would be skreming and supporting a special investigation in the same they way supported ken star s investigation 20 years. with ken star, how clinton got impeached, the monica lewinsky