a campaign rally for 2020 is part of an effort to make sure if things go badly for him, he will have people out there in the streets who will be acting on his behalf and who will be disrupting our democracy. central thing about donald trump is donald is about donald. he is about himself and nothing else. there is a politics story at the heart of this new york times story. that is donald trump attacking incumbent republican senators like jeff flake trying to knock them off in primaries. mitch mcconnell and other republicans believe if you do that, that opens up a very good chance for the democrat in arizona to possibly take that seat and that s the argument, that s where the argument is joined politically. donald trump apparently not worried about that. i got to tell you. i want to step back and take a larger look.
leadership. that s just man raging at the television set and that s what we hearing tonight. good point. heather heyer s name hasn t been mention ped. and what donald trump, talking about something he feels sorry for himself about because of the way the news media covered it and we covered it accurately and covered what he said which he is now tonight afraid of seeing what he actually said the first time. and i will just jump in at this last point here, i don t think any of us, no matter how partisan we are, could imagine that no representative from a bush white house or obama white house, that no one would have been at that young lady s funeral.
former speechwriter for jimmy carter p. this is as deplorable a lie as can you imagine a president telling on live television to an audience. it is. and i m thinking back, it was only 24 hours ago. many were saying we are seeing the new trump. he was sober under control. kelly shaking them down as chief of staff. this is back to the trump we ve seen before. also i want to suggest the possibility either that was a flatout intentional lie or else there is always the possibility that donald trump, you know, he thinks it s true now. there is always this kind of glee, he is excited to see what is there and add libs text as if he had not seen it before. libs i can imagine that he thinks he is telling what happened. that s the way he is performing for the audience right now.
from him under oath about this phone call and want to know who mitch mcconnell told about this phone call and who else might have been listening to this phone call while it was going on. i think ron can confirm to us it would not be terribly unusual in the senate majority leaders office to have a staff person or someone else hearing the leaders end of a presidential phone call. right. i would thurry expect that at least one of the persons listening to take notes on this call. and having been on the other end after few of donald out of control phone calls, i can imagine how that conversation went. i think the important issue about this story is clearly mcconnell either wanted the story out or he didn t object to it because clearly the people were free to talk to the times about this. that should send a signal to donald. the problem is he is not
republicans in the senate are protecting donald trump. but if he continues it down the path he is on, i don t think that will continue. and as for the idea that trump is really upset about health care he attacked jeff flake who voted with him on health care. he is going after jeff flake not because of health care. he is going after jeff flake because flake said he want it hold trump accountable for his wrongdoing. like david k. johnson said, dona donald trump sp in this only to protect donald trump. i want to read you this report tonight. it says, during the call which mr. trump initiated on august 9 from his new jersey golf club the president accused mr. mcconnell of bungling the health care issue. he was more animate bed what he intermated what the senator s refusal to protect him from investigation of russian interference in 2016 election. here is the sourcing, according to republicans he briefed on the conversation. and david, that is saying that