i think this is going to end it. i just laughed. i said mr. trump, it s unfortunate i have teal you this, but having done this myself for a living, we re going to be talking about this on valentine s day, february 18. they laughed out loud. jared told me i was crazy. congresswoman, how could the president be stuck on fly paper, because he is. he can t get off of it, and he s the fly, from not knowing from day one he was involved. how can a guy believe he s so incent i innocent or that all he had to do was fire flynn and he would be free? because that s how he s dealt with business problems in his career. you either sue someone, get rid of someone, and that sort of takes care of it. he runs the presidency like he s part of an organized syndicate. and i think that he thought that would do it. you know, it s really palpable when the fbi director comey before our intel committee, one of the few open hearings we had,
explain why he brought certain charges and why he didn t bring other charges. so to the extent the answer to those questions will get into the other evidence and other information that may not be an indictment or the subject of trials or charges, i would think that the report would include that. again, how much of that will be public and how much will be redacted or withheld, that s a question. we re not going to stop searching. thank you so much for coming with your expertise. up next, president trump had one of his worst weeks as president? don t you agree? allies knocked him for caving on the wall, and republicans said he had nothing to show for his shutdown fight. and that includes all the republicans. plus, there s a new challenger to trump, and she s drawing huge crowds. senator kamala harris of california kicked off her campaign this weekend surrounded by, look at that crowd, trump must be envious as hell. 20,000 real people. not some count his characters came up with. 20,
criminal counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, witness tampering, and five counts of making false statements. today, white house press secretary sarah sanders, who held her first press briefing in 41 days, was asked if the president was considering a pardon for stone. here s what she said. is the president ruled out a pardon for roger stone? i m not aware of that. i haven t had any conversations regarding that matter. will you discuss it with him and let us know? i m not going to get into that at this point, but if need be, we ll let you know. just to follow up, can you guarantee the president won t pardon roger stone? again, i m not going to talk about hypotheticals that are ridiculous. today, mueller has accused six of trump s advisers or associates of lying multiple times to federal officials. raising the question of why they keep lying. the whitaker comment today comes moments before the house
has more indictments up his sleeve, not that i have any information, certainly, but that would be my suspicion. go further with your suspicions because i m curious about what are on this committee have to think. why does everybody lie? why did roger stone get accused of lying, why did roger flynn lie? i don t know if there s a conspiracy, a lot of people think so, but the fact they re lying about it is obvious. what possible motive is there except there s something really dirty there they don t want anyone to know about? that s precisely it. there s no question that trump was trying to do a deal with the moscow hotel. he wanted that to be kept under wraps. he didn t want to be in a position saying he was negotiating with russia and putin during the campaign, because it would have affected his chances of winning. i am absolutely astonished at how readily all of these individuals are willing to lie
the union address tomorrow night, trump capitulated to house speaker nancy pelosi s demand to postpone it to the following week, and trump watched as roger stone got hauled away in handcuffs this week. stone is the sixth member of trump s inner circle who has been arrested by robert mueller. any one of those headlines would normally be enough to stymie any president. for trump, he has to face them all at the same time. i m joined by historian jon meacham, author of the soul of america. i think now that you re down in nashville again, jon, i want you to think about the willie nelson song, it s not supposed to be this way. and it seems to me everything is wrong. his buddies are getting arrested, put in handcuffs. the government has shut down. his number one fixer with all the dirty work under his fingernails is going to talk and squawk before two committees next week. this is awful. and whatever you think of trump, how does he deal with this life that he has chosen to screw up? go ahea