efforts to blow up the investigation, ordering don mcgahn to fire mueller and telling him to bring this note to jeff sessions and trying to get him to unrecuse. he is saved from the outright commission by people not following his orders. that s absolutely right. i do think it s important to remember legally speaking, attempt at obstruction of justice is the same thing as obstruction of justice. just because people like lewandowski and don mcgahn didn t go through with it, that doesn t mean legally speaking he is in the clear at all. i think it s incredibly damning that as you say, you see him attempt this pattern again and again and again, pushing sessions to unrecuse and pushing sessions to investigate even hillary clinton. the pushing sessions to investigate hillary clinton is
you have to show that of the 32, at least two are getting together and saying, you know what, i really believe that donald trump s objection to taking the knee should bar us. there is no evidence. he s a distraction he s 6 4 , 220, and hasn t had one workout. won t geragos team say when the president involved himself, it took it to another level and that that in some way did pressure nfl team owners or at least influenced them against giving kaepernick a shot? that s the theory, fredericka. that s the theory. if geragos can prove that, fine. but right now he s spinning it in the court of public opinion. when he gets to a court of law, you know what, i m saympathetic to the issue but there s no legal basis to the claim. unfortunately there s no basis. that s just not true. if the nfl owners have gotten
distanced himself from anything that he says. he s just giving a big blank mea culpa, spinning it towards the direction of president trump is the best thing since sliced bread and let s move on and doesn t dissuade any of us who have to look at the facts from looking at the facts and vetting those facts and finding out that there are legitimate reasons and legitimate concerns about the president s mental health and those are not going to go away with bannon merely saying i am sorry, i dist you. the school bullying, the fights on twitter, i mean, we talk often about access in this administration and you can t really we re hamperred doing our job because of the lack of our ability to question the president. i don t see this issue going away anytime soon despite the apologies. steve bannon let me add one thing. steve bannon has a very complicated view of donald trump and those who know bannon, who
his applause lines and rally his base and then obviously what you see when he is reading from a teleprompter, completely a hundred percent different. and i think he can talk about unity all he wants but it has to be backed up by action and it s like i think that so many people, that s why his poll numbers are in the 30s. they watch him say things like love and affection but you don t believe those words because when he tweets, all he does is tweet sin ults. i don t want to see our party interfighting. he s got to unite not only the country but the gop to get his legislation passed. he hasn t talked to the senate majority leader since this contentious phone call on august 9th. and apparently they re not going to meet until labor day. on the polls, specifically, yes, his approval numbers are down. but 60% disapprove, the quinnipiac poll out just a little bit ago, when it comes to the president s response to the violence in charlottesville. 60% disapprove, compared to 32% approve. that
say there was an attempt to collude with the russian government. you re doing the very thing that a lot of people say oh, back up. that s exactly why bob mueller, his investigation neil: leave it at that then. let bob we ll see what congress decides to do with that information. neil: sarah, what do you think? democrats do risk putting themselves in a boy who cried wolf situation with this overwrought criticism to everything that comes out of the trump white house. it erodes their credibility to criticize the legitimate problems with the trump administration. that s what you ve seen with the donald trump jr. e-mails. this looks bad. no spinning it. democrats have alluded to treason, they have cried impeachment. they have embraced the pop culture images in violence. when a legitimate situation arises, voters are tuning out.