listen to you now and say, he s a fine one to talk about spending. not you personally, sir but sort of like me giving dietary advice. i shouldn t go there. i understand what you re saying, neil. neil: you republicans have a leg to stand on when it comes to spending more money than you re taking in. from a personal standpoint, one of the big reasons i came to this position half a year ago now is to stand up and push back. we re at a point that deficit spending is at an unsustainable level. we have to turn the corner and push back on the deficit. we re leaving to it our children and grandchildren. it s unfair and immoral to do. senator haggerty, we ll see how this goes. these are tense times. for the read on this, the bottom line from the federal reserve chairman, i see this inflation but i think it shall pass. others have pointed to a collapse in lumber prices after
felt about that. some people might point out that if you are feeling those things, the problem something that s wrong, something we hear here in washington that if you re going up to an ethical line that just doesn t feel right, perhaps you shouldn t go there. so that is something that these officials who were connected and seeing what was going on with policy towards ukraine or being apprised at least around the periphery of the telephone call between the president and a great leader of ukraine. republicans again will counter with that defense and say they may not have had direct custody of the information or they don t really know what the policy was and that was not the case and they would try to use that line of attack to say these are based on feelings and interpretation. shannon: that is a theme we ve seen. of all the reactions of these various behind the scenes definition. . will get back to you, thank you very much. let s check back with gillian turner live on capitol hill.
way that they think. neil: the coverage has been almost nonstop on the politics part of it. should the president go there or not, a lot of his critics say he shouldn t go there. but when you re president of the united states, you assume a role of being sadly, because these incidents happen so often to republican and democratic administrations alike, the consoler in chief. he s trying to console people. i think that whatever your politics, just leave it at that. yeah, look, you know, trump has his own issues with rhetoric and the way he tweets and the language that he uses. but you know, he condemned the shootings when they happened. the following day he condemned white nationalism. he did it. it wasn t good enough. now he s going and visiting the cities and trying to console and meet with victims and first responders and law enforcement officials. again, to the extend the democrats continue to criticize him and say he s not acting
president tonight about whether or not he should fire rosenstein? or what would happen if he did? my message to the president tonight is that interfering with the mueller investigation is the wrong thing to do. it s the wrong thing to do for our country. it in effect says that the president is above the law and donald trump shouldn t go there. do you think having the meeting on thursday is to distract from the kavanaugh hearings? my sense is today was really right out of the trump playbook. whenever they got problems, they go out and create some chaos. they create some distraction. we were getting reports on the hill that this was the smoke bomb today to distract from the kavanaugh allegations. again, the bottom line is and a lot of us are very concerned about this. that bob mueller is really in a race against time, is that the president should not interfere with this investigation. senator ron wyden, appreciate
investigation. at this point, i mean, doesn t seem like there s any real appetite on the other side of the aisle among republicans to support that. i think it s unfortunate, again, today, we saw them make statements. in other words, whenever they have a microphone in front of them, they say, look, we want bob mueller to be able to do his investigation and he ought to have the opportunity to be independent. we appreciate it. but then when it comes to passing legislation, it would really put some teeth behind that rhetoric. they aren t there. so what s your message to the president tonight about whether or not he should fire rosenstein? or what would happen if he did? my message to the president tonight is that interfering with the mueller investigation is the wrong thing to do. it s the wrong thing to do for our country. it in effect says that the president is above the law and donald trump shouldn t go there. do you think having the