he could corosh raroborate what said. trump won the election with less than the majority of the votes, less votes than hig hillary, he feels that he s not quite legitimate as president, that s the problem, because he seems to attack anyone who considers whether or not the direction he s taking in policy. and he should just be president and stop acting defensively, but he s not doing that and think that s going to be a problem for him. that fold the firing of former fbi deputy director mccabe. we ve heard now from form e director james comey also fired by president trump. he tweeted, mr. president, the american people will hear my story very soon and they can judge for themselves who is honorable and who is not. and then this searing condemnation from former cia john brennan. he tweeted this towards the president. when the full extent of your vernal litty, moral terp ought
today s guilty plea may explain the pressure cooker that the washington post has written about in the past and may likely describe the west wing today as the mull mueller probe inches closer and closer to the president s inner cirque. we ve assembled some of our favorite reporters and friends to break it down. phil rucker from. from the new york time michael schmidt. also chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. terp, former senior nib official now and msnbc contributor and hairly litman and former deputy assistant attorney zben e general during the clinton administration. let me start are with you, michael schmidt, and ask you, you ve written i think the stories today and yesterday about the significance of rick gates, of his guilty plea and what that might mean. break it down for us. look, this is the latest movement and indication that mueller is building a case in a
they let me. you know, we had an economic anxiety election allegedly under conditions of full employment. it s about things that are a lot deeper than just the top line economic numbers and those same things that are roiling under the surface in 2016 are roiling under the surface in 2018 at least where i come from in the industrial mid-west. the manufacturing guys are still worried. of course, how could you not be. sabrina. when you look at republicans prospects in 2018, the calculation they re making it one that they need this president s signature in order to enact their agenda and in order to have something to run on. sotach reform. they didn t want to be on the wrong side of the president because that is the single legislative accomplishment they have one year into his presidency. there s also the fact that the republican base is still overwhelming behind this president. that s a short-terp gain of course, where they re hoping to boost turnout in november. the long-term ra
be. sabrina. when you look at republicans prospects in 2018, the calculation they re making it one that they need this president s signature in order to enact their agenda and in order to have something to run on. sotach reform. they didn t want to be on the wrong side of the president because that is the single legislative accomplishment they have one year into his presidency. there s also the fact that the republican base is still overwhelming behind this president. that s a short-terp gain of course, where they re hoping to boost turnout in november. the long-term ramification what s jeb bush was speaking to you will not expand your electorate to include people of color, single women and groups feeling alienated by this party because of rhetoric from this president. i think we re getting a big turnout of women running for office this year. do you expect a big turnout by women at the polls this november? i think there s certainly some indication if you look at some of the re
exactly who it was drafted on and tweeted from, but look, it was terribly damaging. it bask lay has the president without quite realizing it, essentially admitting he knee something terp had hard, and pushing out the head of the fbi to stop an investigation of that wrong act. i was going to say i love this. incredibly short-sighted strategy. if in fact this was trump and not his lawyer, robert mueller will get to that in short order, so was what the point of sort of the lawyer throwing himself under the bus. i think dowd will have to withdraw, he cannot be a lawyer and witness in the same case and he ll have to see who drafted the tweet. and can dowd there there s no way he could avoid becoming a witness under your scenario. he claimed he wrote it, i think they have to look at the forensic evidence.