admitting to me that this was just really bad day for this administration and by extension for republicans generally. they are already having a hard time moving things on capitol hill. they are worrying their lemgs laidive agenda could bed a good as dead. one told me when they read comey s prepared remarks yesterday they said i m not as worried. then they saw him go further today. one said he really came to do damage to donald trump, and he is doing it. there is just this sense that the administration doesn t have a good response. they don t have audio tapes to corroborate trump s version of events. you know, comey may be imperfect. he may have done himself some damage over the last year or so politically. and we do live in this world where people sort of obstruction of justice like everything else it s in the eye of the beholder these days. but i think blicans really do worry about where this is going and theyecognize that publicly you have a president who 30 or so percent of the co
detail under oath? or do you believe the president who has a track record frankly of skirting the truth on issues big and small. from the very first day in office, first full day in office, president trump was sending his advisors out to skirt the truth about the size of the inauguration crowd. and you see this in poll numbers. when you ask americans about the president s whether they think he is honest and trustworthy, he s at a pretty low number there. comey again lays out this challenge. and i think that the answer to that question, who do you believe, may not result in anything that is related to the investigation or any legal implications for the president, but it s certainly going to hurt him politically. and to have that kind of damage at this point in a presidency, i think would be pretty difficult to overcome. peter baker allow me to quote from piece by peter baker in tonight s new york times. headline for trump, the cloud just grew that much darker. thanks to mr. trum
karl rove as written for the wall street journal, we quote, increasingly it appears the president lacks the focus or self-discipline to do the basic work required of a president. his chronic impulsiveness is apparently unstoppable and clearly self defeating. mr. trump may have masters the modes of communication but not the substance will be the sabotaging his own agenda. while an opinion columnist and his words go way beyond what you wrote tonight, there are some themes in common? well, it s interesting because karl rove has been one of these republicans who was never enamored with president trump to begin with. it has gone back and forth since he took office between defending him and finding merit wanting to give him a chance and criticizing him sharply as he has done in this column. it s hard for a lot of republicans to will be at what is happening because they see it
would be two questions for each side, two questions from the american reporters, two questions from the romanian reporters. it will be the first timee h will be takingest is questions since this hearing. a chance to redeem himself, a chance to put the best light on what jim comey did, dispute what he said as his lawyer did today. it should be interested to see what he picks out of the testimony to emphasize and do we learn more about his account of these meetings. these were one on one meeting. his lawyer wasn t in there. we have yet to hear from president trump deckly his version of what happened. i believe tomorrow is 111 days since the last formal solo news conference. to peter s point there have been these kinds of bilaterals with visiting or overseas leaders. two for the home team press corps, two for the visitors, and the event is over. this will be interesting nonetheless tomorrow. we ll fit in break here.
do you have any doubt that the russian government was behind the intrusions in the dnc and the dccc systems and the subsequent leaks of that information. no, no doubt. imcomey republican senator richard burr of north carolina and a key exchange of russia hacking which president trump has continued to question throughout the hearing comey underscored the seriousness of the attack. it was of a active measures campaign driven from the top of that government and naes as unfake as you can possibly get. it s not republicans or democrats they re college coming after america. if any americans were part of helping the russians do that to us, that is a very big deal. jeremy bash is back with us and julia is with us here in the studio. moscow born journal it current with the atlantic before i get to a bit of visual arts at the hearing today, julia, where were