this happened under the obama administration. democrats want to create this collusion argument. democrats should be pointing to president obama saying neil: but i understand what you re saying. but this president has said all this stuff wasn t even going on. now he s acknowledging it was. he did acknowledge it today. he said it s totally unacceptable. we need to get through with the investigations to go to governors across the country and secretaries states and make sure it doesn t happen again. russians were not trying to help donald trump. rushes want chaos in this country. they were doing things on behalf hoff republicans and democrats to hurt or democracy and we have to figure out ways to safeguard our elections. neil: i ll take your interpretation of those results. let me ask you, you uncle mitt
president had great input, in fact, on the statement crafted on board air force one about the trump tower meeting and that statement we know did not give the whole story. it didn t give the part that really matters here and the president knew it. he wanted to make sure that hillary clinton stuff wasn t revealed. do you see a crime here? well, you don t have a crime in making a false public statement, but what it is, is a part of what seems to be a tendency of the white house to go to cover up wherever there is a choice between telling the truth and coming up with some fabricated story. here again, as we saw from the very beginning, the inconsistencies in the story led directly to donald trump dictating a false story about adoptions in place of what actually happened at this meeting when there were so many people who could contradict that
add that to the post and the tim times this is a broaden investigation, instead of narrowing. the trump folks are trying to fight that. it seems as though that is what is happening here, don. what i don t really know is what donald trump s out is. if you asked me a couple weeks ago, would he fire bob mueller? i would issay, no, that would b from a purely political handicapping pundit perspective, that would be devastating politically. it would make you look guilty. but then you read these pieces and you read what he told the new york times. this is not you know, that stuff wasn t based on anonymous sourcing. that was donald trump talking to the new york times. and you think, golly, is he at least giving himself that option as he sort of considers what s next? one other quick point, donald trump, it s worth remembering, saying over and over again, the only and first major party
and you read what he told the new york times. this is not you know, that stuff wasn t based on anonymous sourcing. that was donald trump talking to the new york times. and you think, golly, is he at least giving himself that option as he sort of considers what s next? one other quick point, donald trump, it s worth remembering, saying over and over again, the only and first major party presidential candidate to not give out even one year of his tax returns. now, he has said it s because it s under ongoing audit, he will do it as soon as the audit is over. obviously quite a long audit. he is clearly concerned about doing it. a lot of flak in the campaign for it. he still refused to do. he s refused to do it as president. that line in the post, that s the line that stood out the most which is trump is concerned about mueller s ability to get some of those tax returns, which no one has really been able to
so a lot of criticism clinton got is she was running these ads warning about donald trump. the stuff about i.c.e., the deportations, that gutting ad about the child at the end of the election saying, can we stay? and this is a criticism that i happen to agree with. you aren t laying out a positive argument for your own administration. you are just warning us about donald trump. so she was simultaneously prescient and correct about trump. at the same time she was not getting across that message of what i m going to do. the other thing is that part of what she was going to do and what and i didn t write about this in my piece though i talked to her about it. she had all kinds of policies she was very interested in regarding the white working class and that got some air but bad air during the primaries. when she went to coal country, she wanted to talk about retraining coal miners. policies that address the opioid addiction. that stuff wasn t getting the positive airing and messaging at