in the justice department. if he believes rod rosenstein s denial, then, you know, we will talk about this for three or four days until the kavanaugh thing comes back on the headlines. dana: this does come on the same week that the president has been very critical of his attorney general jeff sessions even telling a reporter this week i don t even have an attorney general. right. dana: he has been frustrated with jeff sessions for a long time. he has never fired the attorney general. sometimes i wonder why he keeps basically hanging him out there to dry. but he doesn t want to seem to go as far as to fire him. could this be the straw that breaks the camel s back? if the president were to fire the attorney general and the acting attorney assistay general. acting attorney general. somebody already confirmed by the senate. dana: that happens to be nol francisco. is he very bright,
with the stormy daniels payment revelations. they don t know if this is a story that s going to be the one that breaks the camel s back, so they re kind of sitting back waiting to see what it is that s going to happen here. let s bring jonathan chate in. jonathan, after denying knowledge of this hush money, these hush money payments in april, president trump now says he did know about them. i can t keep it straight. whether he knew or didn t know, but he didn t know about them then added later on. did he do himself any favors today? no, because his admission was actually a confession. he trieded to say, well, it only would have mattered if the much came out of the campaign but he actually got it totally backwards. the problem, the violation, was that he took the money from the trump organization and donated it to the campaign. that s the illegally and he just misdescribed the law, so i think he thinks he was doing himself a favor, but he was actually hurting himself. yeah. susan,
president won t let him get away with that. he will want to do it as rapidly as we possibly can with complete verification. if he is not serious at all, i take the president at his word he is going to get up and leave. this much i believe. i think the president has inside information here that he is not sharing us with kim jong un. i think he got that from director pompeo in his discussions with him he keeps talking about something dramatic. if it doesn t happen, i m going to leave. we have a major event coming. if it doesn t work out, i m going to leave. he has information he is not telling us. martha: fascinating. when you look back at it and i think that analogy of the berlin wall and gorbachev is really fascinating. but, when you kind of peal back that moment you ask yourself, you point to history, what was the straw that sort of began to break the camel s back? and i think of the talks that president trump and president xi had. and the increase in sanctions and the pressure. the
tonight? tell me what rattles you the most. is it the accumulation of all these happening at once or one or more of these things seems like it s the straw that breaks the camel s back? what s truly unsettling a year after mike flynn left, exactly a year after mike flynn was fired is that this white house has had at peter baker s count a 34% turnover. the chaos in the white house and the lack of institutional knowledge. the fact that they for days have been trying to blame the fbi for the failure to properly vet rob porter. they shouldn t have done that they shouldn t have laid it at the feet of the fbi on the eve of christopher wray testifying for the senate intelligence committee. that was a mistake. because christopher wray was not going to lie under oath. he was not only going to defend his agency but explain the facts of life to this white house. it is not up to the fbi to make these decisions. and they were not made within the last weeks, months, even a year ago they had alrea
which is as opposed to drain the swamp. taxes are about math and math doesn t lie. today s gop congress showed its priorities. benefits for corporations come before children s health care. and wasn t always this way. republican senator orrin hatch started this children s health program. i ve reported on that. tonight i have to report that orrin hatch and mitch mcconnell are starting to end this children s health care program. and it is all in the math which reveals more than the speeches and the tweets. as we heard in the song mathematics, numbers is hard and real and they never have feelings. but you push too hard. even numbers got limits. why did one straw break the camel s back? here s the secret. the hundred other straws beneath it. where s the math? the math could be the key to winning back the majority next year. with me now, margaret, a