remain america. even the fourth of july is subject to our polarization. really? i think it was interesting with those statistics you showed. you showed year over year, which would have meant july of 2017. trump was president then. would have been interesting to see 2016 where you would have probably seen more democrats saying they are proud of america and fewer republicans. trump had clinched the nomination, so who knows. go back to 15 or whatever. but what it shows is less about fundamentally where america is and broadly and more about this partisan divide specifically about our politics in the white house. the peak, extremely proud was in 2003 which was a year and a half removed from 9/11 which the country rallied around. so senator majority leader mitch
back in april they d be evaluating what came out of those probes. he so far is still here. while senior administration official says he does seem to be inching forward to being on his way out, it does raise a question of what scandal is it going to take for the white house to push this guy out. when he does eventually leave, the question will be, what took so long? that s a very fair question. kaitlan collins, appreciate that. let s get to the list in a minute. but just the chutzpah of, mr. president, make me the attorney general. fox, send me to the hen house. help me. it just shows actually, it says a lot about the president. it says that a lot of people who work for him believe that he can be swayed contrary to what seems to be the obvious thing to do. most people you ask in washington would say, obviously, he needs to be fired yesterday. but there are people in trump s inner circle who say, if i can
losing that s why i m doing this. we saw china announcing they re going to make sure trump s tariffs go into place first, and then they ll retaliate. so that it s clear that in the optics of this, that president trump is the one waging a trade war on europe. and waging a trade war on china and potentially waging a trade war on allies and canada and mexico. so that the narrative is pretty clear here. the president is in his behavior, in some ways, moving away from the principles of the wto that, by the way, the united states created. and creating problems for the united states consumers that all these other countries are going to say, we were only forces to do what we had no choice but to do which was defend ourselves. where s the off ramp? well, there doesn t look like there s an immediate off ramp and part of the problem is, to the extent you can have a policy dispute between the united states and its allies over this particular issue and say to each other, you know, we re friends
but went through the process is ted olson, the supreme court solicitor, former justice department official who when he was in the reagan government was investigated by an independent counsel, became a very famous supreme court case. it was a nightmare for ted olson and the trump team has reached out to mr. olson to see whether he would join them. he declined. but nonetheless, there s an awareness that dealing with a special counsel like robert mueller is a dangerous enterprise. on the other side, there is donald trump who thinks he has been wronged and he doesn t want those kinds of lawyers selling him out so-to-speak. i think he s brought in someone like joe dejenev to be the guy who is going to lean on the system to make sure trump s personal interests are represented and the lawyers dealing with mr. mueller don t make a deal that puts the president in jeopardy. paul: kim, let s turn to some other news this week on the
someone who did not get indicted but went through the process is ted olson, the supreme court solicitor, former justice department official who when he was in the reagan government was investigated by an independent counsel, became a very famous supreme court case. it was a nightmare for ted olson and the trump team has reached out to mr. olson to see whether he would join them. he declined. but nonetheless, there s an awareness that dealing with a special counsel like robert mueller is a dangerous enterprise. on the other side, there is donald trump who thinks he has been wronged and he doesn t want those kinds of lawyers selling him out so-to-speak. i think he s brought in someone like joe dejenev to be the guy who is going to lean on the system to make sure trump s personal interests are represented and the lawyers dealing with mr. mueller don t make a deal that puts the president in jeopardy. paul: kim, let s turn to some