reporting and others, that he is doing this between books. this seems to be something he is obsessed with on a personal level. not even on the level of trying to rally his base. i see a president who is in self-preservation mode. this is something, you can go to trump party, florida, ohio, his supporters say the same thing. he s an outsider and the establishment that the fake news is a part, has it for the president. i think it is a strategy. not very effective but his way of trying to neutralize coverage of him that isn t critical. i think it is a strategy. he sees something he doesn t like on tv in the morning and he can t help but tweet about it. to plant a shadow of a doubt, a seed of doubt in people s minds
absolutely no tapes. and comey said during his testimony, lordy, he hopes there are tapes, famously. and i hate to disappoint him, but i don t think they exist. trump says this all the time to intimidate people. whether it s people prosecuting him or investigating him or reporting on him. it s sort of typical trump. now your reaction tonight, knowing donald trump as you do, your reaction tonight to the possibility that he may order the special prosecutor to be fired. oh, i think he would do that in a heart beat if it came to his survival. thing is two lenses for understanding everything donald trump does. self-aggrandizement, or self-preservation. he is firmfully the self-preservation mode here. i don t think he would hesitate for a second to fire mueller. the idea that well, he s got to make the political calculation, for you just how at risk does he feel. yes. by the special prosecutor. and if he feels seriously at risk he ll fire them shirks not a strategically disciplined
there are no tapes. i thought there were absolutely no tapes. and comey said during his testimony, lordy, he hopes there are tapes, famously. and i hate to disappoint him, but i don t think they exist. trump says this all the time to intimidate people. whether it s people prosecuting him or investigating him or reporting on him. it s sort of typical trump. now your reaction tonight, knowing donald trump as you do, your reaction tonight to the possibility that he may order the special prosecutor to be fired. oh, i think he would do that in a heart beat if it came to his survival. thing is two lenses for understanding everything donald trump does. self-aggrandizement, or self-preservation. he is firmfully the self-preservation mode here. i don t think he would hesitate for a second to fire mueller. the idea that well, he s got to make the political calculation, for you just how at risk does he feel. yes.
members to say and do whatever they need to about trump. sources tell me several gop lawmakers on the call push the back at ryan, saying he s effectively conceding the race to hillary clinton. though republican leaders deny that it s his intent, the reality is that s exactly what ryan s message means. republicans i talked to are confident that trump will lose, and they re panicked that he ll not only take the senate republican majority down with him, gop strategists say internal polling shows they have concern about house republicans in competitive districts. they could be in real trouble. so ryan and his fellow republicans are in self-preservation mode right now, alisyn and chris. they re privately saying the way things are going, the house may be the only place for republicans to keep a check and balance on democrats. on the list of things that bash and cuomo never thought they d say during an election, we now have to add, boy, those republicans better hope their nominee loses, oth
developments. to see that he s using twitter to focus his ire on the top republican in the house, the top republican elected official in the land, house speaker paul ryan. now, just by way of background, very quickly, the reason he s clearly so angry is because paul ryan held a conference call with his rank and file yesterday. telling them that he, ryan, is not going to defend trump anymore. he won t campaign with them, which he hand done yet anyway. he also, most importantly, told his members they should feel free to do what they need to do. making clear he doesn t think trump is going to win and they need to be in self-preservation mode. he did get pushback from some conservatives and that is what donald trump is seizing on in these tweets this morning. let s start with what you put up. our very weak and ineffective leader, paul ryan. this is republican talking about a republican. had a bad conference call where his members went wild at his