neil: he did not have goodwill when he got elected. the problem here is when you are in a crisis, you have got to have somebody serve as your crisis manager. you cannot do it alone. the president loves to do all of the stuff alone. this is too hot of a fire for him to fight on his own. he needs his staff. he needs a war room. this is a time for discipline if there ever was a time for discipline. he needs to be more measured. the same rules that apply to everyone else don t apply to this guy. neil: s view is that he is not treated fairly. if he is anything, annoyed actually flabbergasted that right after the molar probe and thought that was done, this coms along. you could tell, it is igniting him. he makes that case pretty compellingly. he said, i am not treated fairly. i m constantly going after. whether or not this impeachment proceeding goes forward, there s going to be a large
here the clear that the motive for his firing was to stop an investigation the president feared. i don t know why he feared it because we don t know what was going on there. he had to stop the investigation and the only way that anyone will have kchd that there s a investigation going on would be if there s an independent prosecutor appointed. if there is not, we congressman, director comey is the only that his can figure that out? this is the equivalent or worse than the saturday night massacre by presidents nixon. congressman why not if the president really has nothing to hide and he s not involved in any kind of a coverup. at this point why not wait until the investigation s over? why continue to have somebody serve who s lost the confidence of the men and women he leads. he has not folks have been saying it on here. if statements today, it is
previous leak cases to the extent there s any comparable leaks cases, you re talking about sentences of usually about several years in prison. chelsea manning saying we ll have served seven years so in his mind, this is not letting somebody get away with it. this is letting somebody serve about what you d expect to serve for a leaks case. does he have an argument there? i think the difference in the penalty may reflect the damage done to the national security of our country. i think that s why you have a difference in the penalty range. let me just say, as a general matter, the president of the united states, he does not have to defend this decision under the constitution. the president has unfeddered authority to pardon people, to grant congressmen si for any reon or no reason. i will say as a rule of thumb. if you take an executive action and you have to go out and defend it, not only against republicans, but against democrats for questioning, the reasons for this. then i think you
a guy who was bipolar called me up after the show and said he could get a gun. i m not sure that s tight enough. do you think we have tight enough laws? we do not have laws that are tight enough, for sure, and hopefully there can be change. even the law for mental ilness is tighter than it was, but it s not tight enough. what about people who are drunk, you know not drunk, but adjudicated drug addicts. these kinds kinds of things, it should be tightened up. that one will be hard to do, no question about it, but we ask for small and reasonable things, we might get it done. how does somebody serve in the u.s. congress who doesn t even know that slavery existed until the civil war. that s michele bachmann s speech coming into tonight. i am stunned by this, this ignorance. i think a lot of the people who are coming in don t have much experience in government.