spy in his campaign overseas. alight of the house oversight chairman, trade gowdy who attended the briefings last week, this is what he told fox news. watch this. i am even more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information that they got and that it has nothing to do with trump. i mean, how do you get any plainer than that? we knew the president s spy claims were bogus, this backs it up. yeah, and good for representative gowdy for saying it just that plainly. but, let s separate out the issues. i think the whole conspiracy theory surrounding the russia probe is about one thing, which is the try and discredit the probe with his supporters so that if the result of the mueller probe is negative to him, and it may well be, that he can dismiss it as political. he is making head way in that
democrats there. and, to jill s point, what trey gowdy was saying, there was no spy, that s not the words they use, i woirnd if itnder if it s impact on voters. they re saying the president s war against this seems to be having some kind of an effect. the polls are showing that more and more people are having questions about the mueller investigation, not just his core supporters but republicans more broadly. which is why you hear by and larng large a silence aside from the facts that aren t running for re-election like gowdy. you haven t seen house republicans particularly on the house side defending mueller. they did oh, he s the guy do the job, they have switched positions i think on that. i do think you have to just note trey gowdy not running for re-election, unhinged, able to say what he thinks. how long until the president goes after him on twitter? quoting him in some ways,
the new york times which cites sources saying the president tried to get jeff sessions to reverse his decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. nbc s kristen welker is over at the white house. there s a lot of moving parts on this just in the last couple of hours this morning. reporter: that s right. president trump retweeting comments by trade gowdy on fax news last night essentially saying that perhaps he should have considered picking someone else for his attorney general. the president has every right tto be upset. this is in line with the past comments that the president has made. he s infuriated by his attorney general s decision to recuse himself from the russia probe. listen to what gowdy said overnight. i think what the president is doing is expressing frustration that attorney general sessions should have expressed his concern for recusal before the
into russia s meddling in the 2016 election. but no evidence that anyone was embedded in the trump campaign. and trey gowdy said this as well, hallie, essentially saying that he is more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got. now, president trump notably hasn t tweeted anything about those comments this morning, hallie. yet, kristen welker over at the white house. thank you much. we ll see you in a little bit. i want to bring any joel wine banks, former assistant watergate prosecutor as well as chief washington reporter and senior washington correspondent for politico. the gaggle is here, gang. jill, to you first. what we are hearing from the president is not particularly new. we know he seems to loath from a policy perspective his attorney general for not recusing himself from the russia investigation. what happens next? does he fire him?
to rebuild our community. what happened? well, what happened was that we all knew that was going to be big news for a while, so we came down here. bush, clinton, wilson, all of us, got our pictures taken. pretty much forgot about it. did he just say what i think he said? see where he s going with this. welcome back. warren beatty playing the senator who fessed up to his life of bs. that s from the film bullworth in which he portrays a senator who tells about his career how it is. trey gowdy is having a bullworth moment of his own. in an interview, he said congress is ham p ppered by ineffectiveness. you didn t like this job, did