excuse the democrats used for bill clinton, it s just lies about sex, to quote andy mccarthy. how will it affect the mid-term races. there s a lot of people who voted for trump angry, they feel he s unfairly targeted and hillary was given a pass and they re going after him. and the message to the american people, if you an outsider, somebody who wants to run for president and the political class did not annoint you, the insiders, the elites in washington, political class will destroy it. that s what i think donald trump is trying to bring in. that sounds like spin. the swamp is now defined by trump and his associates. or you could say it s the leaders of the fbi and the d.o.j., a lot of people believe. harris: i ll step in with a bit of breaking news. it s developing at this hour. an update, now, on the health of senator john mccain rg the long-serving arizona republican and vietnam war hero.
he told bloomberg, if he doesn t get it done in the next two or three weeks, he s speaking about mueller here, we ll just unload on him like a ton of bricks. right the damn report so we can see it and rebut it. what is he threatening here to unload on the special counsel who was appointed by a deputy attorney general appointed by this president. what is he implying there? well, you know, i mean, my god, so much to unpack there. first of all, the president has been unloading on bob mueller a vietnam war hero, respected by pretty much everybody, for over a year. i don t know what he means by we re going to unload. we re at the tail end of a year plus of the president and the president s people doing all they can to delegitimize bob mueller and the fbi. this has one objective. when mueller comes out with his report which i anticipate he ll do in due course, whenever he thinks that justice is served by
but on capitol hill a problem, too, because john mccain is extraordinarily respected for not just the time obviously that he served as a prisoner of war and the fact he s a vietnam war hero of the era, has dedicated 60 years of his life roughly to public service? right. we re hearing from lawmakers reflecting that very fact. a tweet from dan sullivan, republican from alaska still serves in the marine corps reserve unit and you can see the tweet there. the white house official who offed an insult, show respect and apologize. add to that the public comments lindsey graham, republican senator from south carolina you know is a close friend of senator mccain s and a friend of president trump. look what he had to say about this yesterday. should the president himself apologize? i ll leave that up to him, but if something happened like that in my office, somebody in my office said such a thing about somebody, i would apologize on behalf of the
multiple administrations and who we hear is a republican, a vietnam war hero, et cetera, it s just a remarkable thing to hear. and i don t think that, you know, i m a journalist, right? but i ve covered these institutions under administrations of both parties. and that level of attack is one that i haven t heard from, from prominent political figures from any party, frankly. up to this point. and that is, you know, it s insidious. and i speak all the time to folks who work diligently inside institutions such as the fbi. and, you know, to imagine that they can tune that out, i think, is a bit far fetched, right? they genuinely worry. and you hear that from the leadership of those institutions, too. you hear it from chris wray, appointees of this president making a point of praising the work, saying they will do their work independently. and sort of forge on, despite