has is repeatedly used to criticize the press for what he considers unfair coverage. i call the fake news the enemy of the people and they are the enemy of the people. the president used it again today in a series of tweets attacking the media including nbc news. it s a dangerous game because there s a risk that individuals who are upset with the media who support the president for whatever reason will take this kind of language literally. chain is charged with making threats and interstate communications. authorities say he had weapons and bought a rifle three months ago. thanks to pete for that report. coming up, john mccain s final flight from arizona to d.c. preceded by a moving memorial where republicans and democrats alike eulogized the late senator. we re back after this.
justice so when it comes out the president can say i told you it was rigged from the beginning. matt says the president s tweet storm late this week reflects a certain agitation with the news swirling around him, according to people close to trump including a growing anxiety within the white house about the possibility the i word as the president sometimes refers to as impeachment and what a democratic take over of the house would mean. this is trump at war with the elites, war the opposition media, tech oligarchs, the antifa anarchists. steven bannon wrote, this is the reason trump is president, to take on the vested interests in this country for hardworking americans. evaluate that for me. the problem the president has right now is he is fighting on too many fronts. he s fighting an investigation led by bob mueller, essentially an unindicted coconspirator in an investigation in new york. that investigation may continue. his form were campaign manager
convince 30% of his base that the media is lying, googt is lying about him and social media ne networks, that s his chance to hold on. what does none of us have really gone there. what does getting involved in the department of justice and fbi look like? what we know is he can fire jeff segs and he might. we know he s talked about getting rid of mueller with don mcgahn. but what do you think it looks like? you re right, we don t know what it looks like. as bart alluded to earlier is the president stays away from controlling, running, interfering in the work of the department of justice and that s for good reason. because the department of justice and the work that it does should be free from political influence. i mean it s ironic or hypocritical, whatever you want to call that the president is claiming the department of
i have a better education than they do from a much better school. the elite they re the elite. they re the elite. i went to better schools, i went to better everything. and by the way by the way, you ready for this, and i m president and they re not. he sure is. that was earlier tonight but over the past few weeks the president has been ratcheting up his attacks on some his favorite targets. robert mule,b the justice department, the fbi, the media. just about anyone considers an opponent. bill crystal sent this out as the president was in the middle of his tweet stort. trump s melt down, i punder if mueller s team has told giuliani they re no longer interested in
for mcgahn. so all the people who had some independent standing, some ability to say that, look, mr. president, you re right of course it s unjust and terrible but let me explain to you the way washington works, the way the government works, you can t quite do this. it seems they re going one by one. it seems he s got untrammeled trump here, people like rudy giuliani happily going on with attacks on the fbi, the justice department and so forth. a team of rivals this is not, but it is by design, bill, the president did at some point surround himself with people who might speak independently and he has by choice eliminated them one by one. it s a phrase, by the way, the president uses often to describe the media. a man accused of plotting to shoot-up a major city newspaper