think he chose two former presidents who denied him the presidency by defeating him, george w. bush and barack obama, to eulogize him? they were friends of his. that was one thing we learned from john mccain, he saw humanity in everybody. his captors, those who tortured him in vietnam, and his political opponents. i think it s perfectly fitting, and i think he wanted a statement made as well that we ought to see the good in our opponents, that these political battles are just political battles and in the end we re all americans, we re all friends. i hope that s what we take from all of these ceremonies, we ought to be kinder and see the humanity in our opponents. is it also implicitly a rebuke to the current president, donald trump?
ubiquitous on all social media platforms, facebook, twitter. and russia and other governments have used these bots, swarms of them, to advance their propaganda, to advance fake news stories, to advance certain hashtags, like release the memo. they are active to this very day in using these social media platforms to infect our own politics. what we ve seen on the hill is that the companies themselves, facebook, twitter, and others have not really had a very effective response to this problem. and they re still finding more evidence of this kind of stuff at play in our politics in washington. so it s especially fascinating to see that while more and more evidence accumulates that russia continues to do this up until this week, neither congress or the white house nor these social media platforms have really gone to town on this problem. peter, i imagine they re not going to mention this in the state of union tonight. what reality is donald trump going to try to paint tonight? it see
attempted to get a formal response from pruitt. key word there, attempted. any comment about that radio interview, administrator pruitt? any comment at all, sir? excuse us. back up. pruitt was hiding there from hake and he had no comment for him but he s now issued a believe me now that i m employed by him not then when i was not statement. after meeting him, donald trump, and having the honor of working for him, it is abundantly enclosure that president trump is the most consequential leader of our time. no one has done more to advance the rule of law than president trump. the president has liberated our country from the political class and given america back to the people. that will wrap things up for me this hour. remember to follow the show on facebook, twitter and instagram or e-mail us, nastygram us at the e-mail you see on your screen. ali velshi, i don t know, that
i mean, where are we disagreeing? let me respond. let me respond. are you supporting are you proposing that mr. mccabe resigned because of donald trump? because i think that would be silly. for heaven s sakes, the fbi is independent. mr. trump can t fire him or hasn t threatened to fire him. i believe he resigned because of some of the information contained in this memo that s about to come forward. and i could elaborate on that. i could tell you some of the things that we are concerned about with mr. mccabe but he made his own decision. he wasn t forced o o d out by t president. the president isn t trying to force out mr. rosenstein. but you can t take any organization, particularly a law enforcement like the fbi, a law enforcement organization and say, you know what, they are beyond reproach. you cannot question them. there s only one organization in the world that s beyond reproach, and that s the fsb or the former kgb in russia. they re the ones who say, if you question us, w
and this is it s one of the things we ve also heard from people who have not read the memo. they said, this will undermine the special counsel. it does not, at all. i want the special count to continue. i want him to finish his work. i don t want to impede him in any way. but this memo simply doesn t do that. and once again, maybe today, maybe tomorrow, in the next few days, you re going to be able to see the memo. and when you do, i would challenge anyone, how does this affect the special counsel? because the truth of it is, is it does not. president trump wanted to fire director comey. and he wanted him gone after he refused to drop the russia investigation. he said it was about russia to nbc s lester holt. comey was fired. president trump railed against andrew mccabe on twitter and repeatedly insulted him and his wife, even, mccabe is stepping aside. president trump has repeatedly called out rod rosenstein. now this memo, which is many are saying, is basically devin nunes s ve