wow. fbi james baker reassigned. joining us now, ethics lawyer for george bush will talk about the pressure on mueller. but let me have you react to the tweets. andrew mccabe under pressure as he sat through hearings. mccabe is loyal public servant and he has served his country well h and f. and for him to be attacked by members of congress the way he s been attacked over the past few years is unconsciousable. what s going on is mccabe is witness to the obstruction of justice by president trump. because he was there when fbi, when he learned of the president to sware loyalty to the
appreciate s pressure here a lot calling his professional credentials into account. what do you make of that here? he has an excellent reputation as a law enforcement officer and i think his credentials are beyond reproach. once he found out one of his chief investigators was involved in in rope rate comments about the president, he fired him. and that was the right thing. but let me also say that mccabe apparently was privy to conversation bs an insurance plan or plan b in the event that trump was elected. so we really need to have some transparency here. and rather than having these committee meetings in private i think the american people should have them in public. and mccabe needs to answer those questions. he answered a number of questions this week as mike was saying just a moment ago. john, let me ask you about what you are taking away from who the house intelligence committee in particular has questioned over the course of the week, reporting here first from nbc
11 months. joining me now. let me start with another remark from president trump yesterday before he signed that tax legislation. legislative approvals for which i ve given no credit in the mainstream media, we have, i believe, it s 88, which is number one in the history of our country. second now to harry truman. we crunched the numbers, 96 in the presidency. that is less than what bill clinton had at that point. let me go to you first and who do you place the blame on, is this the white house or congress, what do you base it on? well, first of all, merry christmas to you and happy holidays to everybody. to you as well. well, i think that you can look at congress as falling down flat on their face on many, in implementing many of the trump promises. it is significant. this is a giant tax cut for most
year for big transportation bill tan obviously the full repeal of obamacare didn t happen. but i think congress has done a terrible job. i think they get f minus marks for this year, maybe not plus, only because they passed the tax reform bill. but look at issue after issue, i think most americans look at congress and say what do these stand for. they know what president trump stabds for but don t know the leaders in congress stands for. let me ask you to respond to th . that s something you could levy on them. as you look to the new year, what are democrats going so say about that and the path forward? well, this tax bill is not an accomplishment for most of us. you know, the republicans will claim that it s a tax break for middle income americans. but i really think it s trying to break the middle class. the reason republicans aren t accomplishing much is because americans wholeheartedly do not agree with the direction that
how does that play out today? democrats are united and really advocating for d.r.e.a.m.ers. and when lawmakers return in january they ll have to make a choice, is he going to negotiate with democrats and fulfill what democrats has said gone on at private meetings where they ve made some type of deal. or is going to listen to hardliners like steven miller. look, on the issue, you know this david i m a policy reporter, but where this gets interesting here is that chief of staff general kelly who has a lot of respect within 1600 pennsylvania avenue has brought in to sort through what information gets to president trump. and so the issue of whether the president is taking information from people like steven miller and steve bannon who of course is no longer in the white house, or whether he s taking information from general kelly, is i think really one of the back story here and the nexus of what, who, rather the president is going to be listening to in january, and something that i thin