enough republicans to sort of sign up to kind of go along with this plan. right. and to make it clear, gloria, we know mcconnell made it clear to the president he didn t have enough votes to dismiss this as a trial and there are people who take it seriously and don t want it turned into a spectacle and a joke, but mcconnell is not giving into trump. trump wants it right away and dragged out and mcconnell is going, we re going to make it quick and by the way, we ll wait until after all of the bowl games are over in the new year season was the answer he gave. these are pretty specific things to say. he s ruling out taped depositions from witnesses which trump doesn t want. i mean, he s clearly defying the president on important things here. he is, and he controls the senate, and i think the president may listen to mitch mcconnell. he has on occasion in the past, and if mcconnell were to say to the president, look, mr. president, do you want to keep control of the senate after 2020, t
here he is today. i think all you need to know is just look at that big smile on the president s face with lavrov standing by his side which pretty much tells you that if he did bring up election meddling, you can wonder how stern a warning it was for lavrov. there s the picture and we re showing it now which the president is proud of this picture. not exactly the photograph you want to have out there if you were giving a stern don t you dare do it again warning to lavrov. i mean, ross, here s the thing. the last time trump met with lavrov, the last time was the day after he fired jim comey in the oval office. according to yo the new york times, i just fired the head of the fbi. he was crazy, a real nut job and i faced great pressure because of russia and that s taken off. that s the last one-on-one