can go through it word for word. that being said the president has admitted to certain things and events that took place leading up to that phone call including the withholding of that $400 million in aid to ukraine. why did the president do that leading up to this call? the president ran on this very issue. he won on this very issue. now he is trying to implement the issues he ran an run on. the american people voted for this. every tax dollar that is spent, every dollar that american people send in to this government the president wants to make sure that is spent properly. we spend hundreds of billions of dollars across the globe and the president looks at it all the time. we want less foreign involvement. others should pay for their own way. up their share. there should be some burden sharing here. he did it with nato when everyone was supposed to give 2% to nato. they weren t doing it. the president said we re changing the way things work. sandra: this is concern over
when barack obama became president what happened, gun sales and ammunition sales went off the charts. there was no better salesman for guns and ammo than barack obama because everybody was scared, you will still exercise second amendment rights. that is a problem we won t solve tonight but we can talk about your book power grab this week. what is it about? tuesday. the democrats want to negate the 2016 election and change the rules of the road in 2020. i spent eight years in congress as chairman of the oversight committee, these are the tricks and the things democrats are doing not only in congress but outside congress and changed the way things work. there are things that are so in-depth, you can t justify it
story from the new york times about the u.s. investigation into michael cohen, immigration, north korea and then, of course, bernie sanders. let s bring in tim carnie, opinion editor at the washington examiner. he was here to talk about his book, which i loved. but i want to ask you about this. new york times reporting the president called matthew whitaker and said, can you help me get this guy up in the southern district of investigate to be the one investigating then nothing happened. so, to me, this is like another one of these stories where the president raises the question. he was told it couldn t happen. and everybody moved on. our system works. donald trump doesn t come from politics so he often tries to do stuff that isn t quite the way things work, whether it s custom or legal. we ve seen so much in the trump administration that the american system is set up so robustly that it often acts as a check on power even when the president
you. to florida now, kaitlan collins is there near the president s mar-a-lago resort. kaitlan? reporter: well, if things couldn t get more complicated in this news cycle, now james comey is weighing in on michael cohen, the president s attorney. of course, after fbi agents raided michael cohen s house, hotel and office, you ll recall that president trump said he thought it was disgraceful and an attack on our country and james comey, in his opinion, said that means the president doesn t understand how the united states justice system works. it shows me he doesn t know or doesn t care what the rule of law looks like. nobody broke into anybody s office. it doesn t happen. the fbi gets a search warrant from a federal judge and conducts itself professionally, completely, and politely by the counsel of the people involved. it is a total distortion of the way things work. reporter: now, though the president was emphatic of his criticism of that raid, of course, michael cohen himself sa
president himself have been trading barbs with him on social media and elsewhere over his comments in the book. the white house accusing james comey of being a disgruntled employee and saying he has absolutely no credibility whatsoever. but as part of this media tour, comey was on talking about a whole host of issues including criticisms from the left and the right to the comments he s made in his book but also this, when the president accused the fbi of breaking in to his personal attorney s office and home, here s how james comey responded to that charge. it shows me he either doesn t know or doesn t care what the rule of law looks like. nobody broke into anybody s office. it doesn t happen. the fbi gets a search warrant from a federal judge and conduct itself professionally, completely and politely by the account of the people involved. it s a total distortion of the way things work. reporter: so now james comey