you can t do that. you have to treat them the same as everybody else. it s a good result. dana: fascinating. senator, thank you for being with us this morning. thank you. bill: 15 before the hour. another news now. nashville music composer saying he has been canceled for criticizing the rioters in the wake of george floyd s murder. the twitter mob was branding him a racist for this instagram post from last year. he wrote enjoy burning it all down you well intentioned blind people. i m done. carley shimkus is here. he is 34 years old. daniel elder. what s the story? i m positively offended. how dare he take a stance against crime. somebody fire up the tar and feathers. the outrage over him taking the correct position against crime and issuing a relatively mundane statement against rioters is so sad. to bring everybody back to may 2020 when he wrote that post,
region and not in national security interest. we have the united states withdrawing from the jcpoa which you yourself didn t vote for. and iran is countering by shooting down american drones, firing missiles and launching drones at saudi oil facilities, i mean, they are in a shooting war, so is this if you let somebody fire at you and you don t shoot back, are you not showing weakness? john, here is the fault of the trump policies, before we withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement, there were conversations with the europeans about strengthening the sanctions against iran for the nonnuclear violations, we could have had the international support and tightened the economic pressure against iran, but still stay within the nuclear agreement. by pulling out of the nuclear agreement, it s the view of europe that this is an american problem rather than an international problem. but you know the argument,
president obstructs justice by firing the fbi director or seeking to fire the special counsel, frankly, i think is not only not really news, it s not surprising. no president nobody likes to be under investigation. you don t think bill clinton wanted to get rid of me when i was the independent counsel? i mean like news flash, hello. you think he ordered people to get rid of? you don t think that kenneth starr would wonder why he would order one someone to get rid of you if he had nothing to hide. look the essence of judgment is to understanding that that would not have been productive to do. if the president wanted to have somebody fire, the president knows how to fire somebody. the fact that it didn t happen is the story. the story is not that he ordered it to happen. the story is that he he made a judgment not to fire him. renato, go ahead. no. i ve got to say, i m
bunch of ridiculous nonsense. i mean i understand the now supposed mow sayic theory of obstruction ever justice. nobody during watergate claimed that richard nixon committed obstruction of justice in firing archibald cox. that was not the obstruction piece. and again the notion that the president obstructs justice by firing the fbi director or seeking to fire the special counsel, frankly, i think is not only not really news, it s not surprising. no president nobody likes to be under investigation. you don t think bill clinton wanted to get rid of me when i was the independent counsel? i mean like news flash, hello. you think he ordered people to get rid of? you don t think that kenneth starr would wonder why he would order one someone to get rid of you if he had nothing to hide. look the essence of judgment is to understand that that would not have been productive to do. if the president wanted to have somebody fire, the president knows how to fire somebody.
republican colleagues to rise to the occasion. the president obstructs justice by firing robert mueller, he should be impeached. that much it clear. we should also note that there s no direct route that trump has for firing mueller. give me the route. he d have to go through the attorney general, who is recused, so that steps it down to the to rob rosenstein. he has telegraphed if does he have to fire sessions, his buddy? no, he wouldn t. sessions is already recused. if he fires rosenstein, then he goes down to the deputy attorney general. he has to have somebody fire this special counsel. anyway, let s go ahead. the washington post said the president approves of the recent attacks that they have leveled against mueller. the president has enjoyed these attacks. in recent weeks he has spoken to