do putting this front and center, knowing the president would take this position as he has publicly. he pulled out of climate change, slow to respond on brazil as you heard him say it is more important to be wealthy, calling himself an environmentalist. that s delusional, we re used to that from trump. but this is something macron has been trying to do a long time. if you remember, there was that embarrassing visit of his to the united states, he and trump were kind of touching each other, it was a lot of egos, the bromance thing that was very bizarre. at that point he was trying to keep trump from withdrawing from the paris accords on the environment. he failed there. the environment is a huge issue in europe and france, even more so after the enormous heat wave this summer. he wanted to make sure that at least on his part, macron s part, he was doing what he could do. the flip side of this is that he didn t want trump to blow up again. there was a lot of coddling by
this is hurting the country. what s interesting to me, it is hurting president trump. greg: you should be thrilled. juan i m not thrilled. i m kind of sad the countries in this place. jedediah: if this is all happening, why don t democrats get on board and support the stuff they supported years ago that he is proposing. they are on record as having supported not only border security measurements but now they re saying no, we don t want humanitarian aid or daca recipients. these things are bad but he put forward something completely palatable. nancy pelosi is a spiteful one sometimes. she is. she didn t want trump to come out. i don t love the state of the union. i agree with greg. i think it s boring. i think somehow they make presidents look like monarchs. it s painful to watch. but it s an opportunity to get out there and have a lot of people tune in to something which typically they wouldn t to an end and i don t think she wanted president trump talking about the aspects of crim
you can t be sure of anything. it does feel a little bit more like this is moving in that direction. and the other thing that s interesting about this is i think a lot of us who watch robert mueller thought that given the request to adjourn paul manafort s joint status report to the court last week for ten days, so that they could be of greater assistance to the judge, that ten-day period ends monday, a lot of us thought that means there is an indictment coming. as you look at what is going on now, it may be a situation where robert mueller wanted to get donald trump s answers on collusion submitted under oath before he released an indictment which would, on collusion, it s probably not going to be trump but maybe roger stone, for example. and in that indictment he s likely to set forth and lay out the factual narrative of how the collusion happened. he didn t want trump to see that and be able to tailor his answers to the indictment, so maybe that s one reason.
don t see a group of republicans willing to put a check consistently on the president. they can see that when they look towards the judges. and so whether or not you find this disagreement petty or uncomfortable, many voters are looking at it with some degree of relief because they don t know that they can trust that this presidency will go in a direction that s in their best interests if no one is checking him. that s a good point that you brought up. michael, i ll throw that to you. this past election, last week, the midterms, it s looking wavier and wavier, democrats keep picking up house seats. it s the largest midterm margin in the popular vote for the house since watergate. does that show that more and more of this country is becoming deeply uncomfortable with what president trump is doing? i think that s exactly right. and i couldn t appreciate more the point just made because that at the core of it is what this is about. what was not talked about and what has not been talke
that the adjectives you think about when you think about the chief justice are restrained, brilliant, dignified. that s everything that donald trump isn t. trump is saying things that are just statistically wrong about the court. it s a corrosive attitude about courts and the rule of law. this attitude about courts and the rule of what, what s the consequence. i think the bigger agenda is to attack the courts and attack the chief justice. i think it s very similar to how he treats any other check and balance, my other institution against him, whether it s the