you ve been listening to donald trump on the white house south lawn. you saw him dripping with sweat at the end of more than 30 minutes of speaking to reporters on a series of topics. of course the major headline was the president standing beside his now former labor secretary, alex acosta, saying despite tremendous pressure, he thought acosta did a fantastic job explaining his role in the plea deal as it related to jeffrey epstein. the president, as you just heard, said acosta is resigning. you see our panel right now. hans nichols was on the south lawn. elliot williams is joining us right now. we have juan that summers, susan del persio. kimberly atkins as well. hans, i want to start with you if i can. you were on the lawn right now. it was sort of remarkable again defend acosta in spite of the details and the fact checks and the way he defined his role in
you cannot indict a sitting president so there s not going to be an indictment of trump, but there might be information that if he was if that policy wasn t in effect that he would have been indicted. the whole report right away is what we will be demanding and potentially using subpoenas to obtain. we re at the beginning potentially of another battle, a new phase. back with me, susan and basil. the beginning of a new phase. this is not going to end. no, it s not. and you re going to see elected officials from both parties doubling down. and they are going to be more and more aggressive, i demand this and we must see every sentence and every period in the mueller report, and they re grandstanding. and the republicans are going to do it too. we ve already heard from mark meadows and surprisingly senator graham who s the head of the judiciary committee made some pretty interesting statements from mar-a-lago. so that s also disturbing. but people are going to have to
a lot of information that comes out, and it will tell us a lot about the next election as susan and basil were asssaying, which need in order to avoid this happening again. i do doubt, katy, although i agree he could be waving the report around, i do not think that this time he will say, russia, if you re listening. he might. when you tell him not to do something, he does that. but he hasn t tweeted, katy. somebody s telling him maybe in the next few minutes. the 24-hour hiatus on tweeting is interesting, but i don t think it means he s going to change his ways going forward. regardless of whether he conspired or the campaign conspired, the campaign did benefit from whatever russia did. it did benefit from the leaking of the e-mails of hillary clinton. that is something that donald trump did wave around in 2016
built in. the question is, do voters trust him and is anybody going to be willing to stand by his side while he s running. the other question is do the voters trust journalists any longer, trust the justice department any longer, do the voters trust lawmakers, do they trust any of our democratic institutions after what we ve seen in this past three years. we re going to keep talking about this. margaret carlson, thank you so much. i know you have to go. susan and basil are sticking with me. hey, who are you? oh, hey jeff, i m a car thief. what?! i m here to steal your car because, well, that s my job. what? what?? what?! (laughing) what?? what?! what?! [crash] what?! haha, it happens. and if you ve got cut-rate car insurance, paying for this could feel like getting robbed twice.
ways what got us here. susan, basil, guys, thank you very much. nice spending a saturday with you. not so bad at all. go to work. up next, the known knowns and the unknowns. baby i m not even in a gown and the only thing u have to say is wow make you re jaw drop drop say oh my drop drop drop make u say oh my god my drop drop make you re jaw drop make u say oh my god and you never felt this type of emotion make you re jaw drop drop say oh my drop drop drop make u say oh my god my drop drop make you re jaw drop make u say oh my god