others saying that the mayor should fire this police officer. i m curious to see if he gets that question and others. there is a larger issue. they want one of them to win. they were ripping each other s throats out. they had a unifying week. biden clearly wants to be a unifying figure. he doesn t want to he wants to be the second choice of everybody that is not the first choice. this could force him into getting aggressive. if they get overly aggressive and start attacking each other and there is all of that. i don t know. that is a good strategy.
chris: are you suggesting it s not going to happen? they are understanding it s a less favorable situation. there is a reason jerry nadler is not excited having mueller testifying other than some people on the committee. chris: first of all, do you think he s going to testify or not? he doesn t want to. it does seem like the democrats are having some misgivings about it, but they seem to be internal misgivings because junior members of the committee saying wait a minute, i m not going to get my moment in the sun. chris: each gets five minutes and 170 members, i m slightly exaggerating, and if they all testify it s going to be a lot more than two hours. if he doesn t testify, it s an embarrassment to the democrats and on that basis they are going to insist on having it. chris: thank you all, panel. going to take a brief timeout. up next, the friday lightning round.
this was his response when he was asked by our own peter doocy back in april. if you are the best choice for the democrats in 2020, why didn t president obama endorse you? i asked president obama not to endorse, and he doesn t want to whoever wins this nomination should win on their own merits. sandra: so there is always that. i don t think anybody believes that one biden said it. he would love to have obama s endorsement. this is typically not what presidents do. president trump is doing what he does best, trolling, trying to get under their skin. the secret is china. i think it is a very damaging story for joe biden. he basically enriched his son and his family on the backs of the working class. on an issue that the democrats had for decades was going to be we need to make trying to be fair. the one who is doing it, bring a
confirmed or politico has confirmed but i will tell you this has been an intense debate in the white house and you have to go back to the campaign. president trump has always been a much more isolationist president. he s been very critical of the iraq war and the conflict in afghanistan. he s indicated before that he doesn t want to, you know, put us in another conflict situation, and so there s just been a lot of tension this whole week between those impulses that he has and more hawkish advisers like national security adviser john bolton who has really wanted to, you know, do military action and take military action against iran for a long time. what this shows me is that, you know, potentially bolton won out this argument, although trump may have pulled it back, but there has been this ongoing tension and trump earlier this week really indicated that there would be a red line on this, that unless u.s. civilian was killed by some sort of military action from iran, that the u.s. wasn
it certainly is, and it is not reporting that i have confirmed or politico has confirmed but i will tell you this has been an intense debate in the white house and you have to go back to the campaign. president trump has always been a much more isolationist president. he s been very critical of the iraq war and the conflict in afghanistan. he s indicated before that he doesn t want to, you know, put us in another conflict situation, and so there s just been a lot of tension this whole week between those impulses that he has and more hawkish advisers like national security adviser john bolton who has really wanted to, you know, do military action and take military action against iran for a long time. what this shows me is that, you know, potentially bolton won out this argument, although trump may have pulled it back, but there has been this ongoing tension and trump earlier this week really indicated that there would be a red line on this, that unless u.s. civilian was killed by some