majority of working people, vast majority of americans, and certainly a vast majority of democrats. what we are doing right now, creating the dynamics within the democratic party, we got to be careful. let s stop tear each other down! let s stop drawing an artificial line! martha: here now, charlie hurt, opinion editor at the washington times, and richard fowler, both are fox news contributors. richard, does that signal a pretty deaf message for the bernie sanders and elizabeth warren s of the democratic party? with the president did is make it very clear. he thinks they should be building upon the legacy of his past eight years and working to make improvements to it, instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. to some extent, there s a whole camp of democrats that agree with that. especially in health care. there is a clear three or four or five candidates at seeing the affordable care act has been in the american bloodstream for about eight or 12 or 13 years, let s f
election the u.s. will retaliate. the trump administration is sending a clear signal. however he hasn t specifically called out vladimir putin. it was reported last week that president trump and his call last week when he congratulated him he said if you want an arms race, we will have an arms race. molly: were always covering the shakeups. now bolton is in and he has been pretty hard line when it comes to russia both openly speaking and in some of the op-ed see as written. could that signal a direction the administration is going? absolutely. it will be interesting to see how they work with the president on this.
election the u.s. will retaliate. the trump administration is sending a clear signal. however he hasn t specifically called out vladimir putin. it was reported last week that president trump and his call last week when he congratulated him he said if you want an arms race, we will have an arms race. molly: were always covering the shakeups. now bolton is in and he has been pretty hard line when it comes to russia both openly speaking and in some of the op-ed see as written. could that signal a direction the administration is going? absolutely. it will be interesting to see how they work with the president on this.
the special counsel s office has continued to request new documents related to the campaign and members of mueller s team have told others they expect to be working through much of 2018 at a minimum. joining s now is sari horowitz, reporter for the washington post. thank you very much for being here. really appreciate your time. sure. thank you for having me, rachel. so i know that you have been reporting about i guess they call them attacks. attacks. certainly oppositional strategy against the mueller investigation from the president s allies including republicans in congress. if this meeting later this week between mueller and the president s lawyers doesn t go the way the president likes it to, are we starting to get a sense of what the president sees as his options? well, this meeting that you re talking about might sort of signal a new combative, contentious phase in this investigation because as you just said we were told that at the meeting the lawyers are
of which might favor one side of the aisle versus the other side. i think that it s important for all of us to be approaching this entire issue not as one side or the other side but as americans. i m someone who believes that the russians did meddle in our elections in 2016, and that is, you know, part of this issue. there is a cybersecurity component that we care about. there has been an investigation as it relates to election day itself to protect the integrity of our infrastructure and see if there s any lessons that could be learned there. so all those aspects are important. but i m just not in a position to speculate as far as these new charges. sure. and i absolutely respect that you don t want to speculate. but the fact that we are here, that this investigation has led to some kind of indictment, does that signal a turning point for you? well, i guess it depends on