that s exactly right. it goes on the way it will, trump claiming every statement that comes out of comey or these hearings is an exoneration and his enemies saying no, it s on indictment. clark cliff a great washington fixer and lawyer would tell somebody, don t do anything and then send him a bill for $5,000. because there was the right thing to do. you are laughing, ken, because the guy, what s his name kastewitz says be yourself. why doesn t he tell the president, stop doing anything, you will be cleared in six month frs. it will be a bad six months. you will be clear of it. maybe that is his advice and trump is not heeding it. why is he paying the guy? that s a good question. why is he paying the guy if he s not going to listen to him. the graphic with those people under investigation i find that so remarkable. i was texting with michael coen yesterday, trump s personal lawyer. he ended the text with future
trump watch, saturday, june 17th, 2017. donald trump has at long last become predictable. the moment a washington figure pops up to challenge him, trump tries to knock him over. first james comey, the man trump inherited as fbi director. trump wanted comey to bow to him or bow out. when he refused to bow, trump knocked him over. didn t bother calling the man to say he d fired him. then robert mueller who daerd take up the investigation. word from the white house that the president didn t like him. thought he was too close to comey or was too serious in hiring top criminal prosecutors. trump soon made it clear, he wanted mueller out. now trump is beating the drum or tweeting at down for the head of rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who he used to fire comey. or at least used as an excuse to fire comey. so we see the pattern. you get a job investigating donald trump and find your job is in jeopardy. there s a direction to all of this.
at the national archives and discovered a lot of nixon stuff, the hanky panky let s break into the brookings institute and the republican hdquarternd pretend the democrats did i it s on nixon is so criminal today. trump today it s hard to figure, what is he hiding that s so devastating to him and his presidency that he is playing this game of trying to intimidate all the prosecutors? i don t know but it must be something really serious. he s jeopardying his presidency over something we don t know but you can t fire comey, head of the fbi. you can t threaten to fire people around you threatening to fire mueller. you ve can t threaten to fire the deputy attorney general without bringing the whole house of cards down. maybe you should be his lawyer? he s paying his lawyer $1500 an hour to give him the wrong advice. the documentary also depicts the saturday night massacre when president nixon fired multiple attorneys general before he could find the one who would
comey told him, assured him three times. he wasn t the focus of this investigation. then in the process of trying to enlist other officials to come to his defense, to publicly go out there and say this narrative is false, that they re going after him, in the process of doing so, he put himself in the crosshairs of the fbi. he s incredibly frustrated by this he is trying to change the narrative. the question is, has he been intimidated? in a statement put out last night rosenstein put out citing anonymous sources saying, quote, let me go back to ken on this. this looks like an attempt to show even handedness to show i ll on your side against leaks, mr. president, so don t come at me. that s a way a lot of people will read that as a sign of
express your love for the leader all the time. in north korea, i m sure it s like that, too. this week, we have a friday explanation, everything is still murky about what may have gone on between the trump people and moscow. what may have gone on, whether a business nature, a political nature, something to do with sanction, all mixed together. we don t know. it s still murky. the cloudiness in the matter emerged when he fired comey. because he tried to get comey to do a pledge of allegiance of some sort clearly. he asked him to get rid of the flynn case, clearly. if you aren t going to play ball with me you are out of here. so all of a sudden he s giving clarity to the prosecution here, all since firing comey. well, that s the astonishing thing here, the degree to which this is an incredibly self inflicted wound inflicted by donald trump on himself. so we are don t know what the facts are of clux or not clux, made-up stories, according to trump. we don t know what the facts are