staff-driven investigation. that also fills in some of the blanks with regard to when bill barr put out that four-page summary of the findings there was this pushback from mueller and now it appears it probably came from mueller s team saying listen, boss, we need you to get out there and say that this is not accurately reflecting the work we did for the last two years. this was a staff-driven operation. president trump s claim these were partisans will certainly be looked at again and i think he will be proven correct it wasn t just robert mueller going after him on a biased political bases and the political background of who the attorneys worked for before they joined the special counsel is important. not republicans undermining robert mueller today. he is not doing himself any favors. he looks weak, not strong. he can t answer basic questions that are in the report when he is saying the report is what i m referring to. he is contradicting himself when he was asked directly
necessity. the idea that we would reach out and help somebody else is in our self-interest. and that s one of the fundamental elements of a republican, lower-case r government, is that i pay taxes for you today, you pay them for me tomorrow. we make, what jefferson called, mutual concessions of opinion. because i may need you tomorrow. winston churchill always refused to carry lifelong grudges as a parliamenttarian, because this morning s enemy might be this afternoon s ally. that s fundamental in the life of a republic, which is what was established today in philadelphia in 1776, was this idea that in fact, if we were going to amongst the powers of the earth, we had the capacity to defend these rights. and to pursue happiness. and what happiness meant in when jefferson wrote it, wasn t just, let s pall be cheerful, although that s great.
him work with anyone. that, of course, is a man who needs no introduction. president trump s former attorney/fixer michael cohen in the middle of a seven-hour day i believe it was seven hours of public testimony on wednesday. and he ain t done yet. cohen will start his third straight day of face-to-face questions from lawmakers in about 15 minutes. today will be private. he arrived for his hearing just a few minutes ago. it will be, as i mentioned, behind closed doors so we re not going to get the kind of fireworks we saw yesterday, and this wasn t just must-see tv. it was must-see tv in vietnam as well. no surprise, where the president weighed in just a few hours ago. here s what he had to say. he lied about so many different things. i was actually impressed that he didn t say, well, i think there was collusion for this reason or that. he didn t say that. he said no collusion and i was you know, a little impressed by that, frankly. he could have gone all out.
stop short, the judge, of overturning the plea deal or issuing an horder resolving the case and gave prosecutors 15 days to confer and come up with a settlement. it is a good start, it is better than where we were three days ago. and it wasn t just president trump, but it was more. it is equal opportunity slime fest down there. as i read about these cases, epstein, he does a lot of information into the lawyers and says bad things about the lawyers. he just had to pressure them to drop the case. they re not just good lawyers doing good lawyering, some of it is rich fancy lawyers doing bad
town hall. and it wasn t just, as you know jim from seeing what it schultz said, a lot is about what he didn t say as well so let s bring in experts. cnn political analyst mark preston who has been with me throughout in houston and senior political writer and analyst harry enten in new york breaking down the polls that we ve seen on schultz lately. let s pause and play this exchange with schultz and myself last night about the key issue of taxes. watch. you ve said twice, i should pay more taxes and the question was about personal income tax, how much should the wealthy pay in this country. you re a billionaire. give me a sense. are you saying you should pay 2% higher? 10% higher? 20% higher federal income tax? poppy, i don t know what the number is. what i m saying is we need ballpark it for people. it makes a difference.