not only the republican chair of the judiciary committee but also, the president. there s an inspector general in the fbi that could do this work but i think this is more of a part of their smoke screens is that mirrors to distract people from the real issue. the russian meddling in our presidential election. which is an act of war by many accounts. and also, to prevent people, or distract people in any parole the trump campaign had of colluding with the russians. is the attorney general in your opinion safe in his role right now? well, it depends on which trump wakes up. i firmly believe that the trump administration governed by chaos is not a governing philosophy without a strategy. i think that every time you see
because there would be a cost to it. the price would be if you squander your credibility, you keep saying you re going to do them, promising, your credibility is shot. he has no credibility to begin with. he lies constantly. one of the weird side effects of lying constantly and coming to the conclusion in his mind he s paid no price for it, there is no price. how is this different from every other lie he tells? he tells all these lies and none of them are he s the credibility is just not there any more so in a weird way by lying so much he s gotten he s taken away the potential price he would pay for making misstatements or using these kind of smoke screens on issues of policy and substance. i want to ask you, because i think people who watch this show have a strong point of view. if anyone ever leaked any video of me from the control room, it be would me screaming get out of that when donald trump is beeping. i hope they just laughed in the control room. as a journalist, but not
against the fbi further shows that republicans are desperately preoccupied with smoke screens while ignoring the real threat to this country that comes as secretary of state rex tillerson warns russia will likely interfere in the 201 midterm elections as they did in 2016. there s a lot of ways that the russians can meddle in the elections. i think it s important we continue to say to russia, look, if you don t think we don t see what you re doing, we do see it and you need to stop. if you don t, you re going to continue to invite consequences for yourself. is the u.s. better prepared than 2016? i don t know that i would say we re better prepared because the russians will adapt, as well. well, that s pretty thoughtful. furthermore, the head of cyber security at the department of homeland security tells us tonight that the prior to the 2016 presidential election, the russians successfully penetrated the voter registration roles of
he has to out there to basically say, no, and just say it louder and bigger and perhaps stomp his feet as well. so people will take it more seriously. this president has a history of sort of, you know, spinning the truth and playing things not just for his own political goals, but also to throw up, you know, smoke screens which i think is a little bit what is going on here as well. alexis, the reports are that the white house staff didn t know about the president s impromptu press conference. they didn t know this was going to happen. well, the president himself enjoys the idea that he can have an audience with reporters. he s actually attracted to the idea as a risk free opportunity for him to dominate the news cycle, which he did immediately in the evening before he left for switzerland. and it is not he was in the white house chief of staff s office when he was doing it. it was definitely a surprise. and the president stood in the doorway and had a little mini press conference
election. i agree there is smoke screens in terms of certain members of the house and others attacking the integrity of robert mueller or attacking for that matter the fbi and the justice department. i don t think that does our county long-term good in terms of the faith in our institutions. but i think that underlying basis of the dossier is what the is the dossier true or not and robert mueller is look at it and we re trying to sort through that because clearly there are very serious allegations and one of the things with the gps fusion individuals, i d like to have them back into testify but also like to have back into testify before the committee members because people like donald trump jr., jared kushner, michael cohen, mr. trump s lawyer, they have testified before my staff, our staff but not before the members and for that matter not before the public. you want the gps founders back to testify publicly. they say that they ve there