o reilly or charges against himself. it always comes to the same place. they say they re innocent. essentially blaming the victims. i saw the vice president. his modular morality unit was rolled out to say we re appalled and we have a zero tolerance. there s not a lot of evidence against that. the abuse against these two ex-wives who went to the fbi and told what happened. and one more reason why what the president said wasn t surprising, we reported yesterday that the president was irritated with his deputy press secretary who went out to the podium yesterday and said, we messed up. we could have handled this better. he didn t like there was a walkback to the approach to the issue. what you saw today was the double down.
take on this. oh, crap! on anyone else s watch, this would be the end, but there is a reagan-esque, and i say it with teflon in mind quality with everything else playing itself out around us. your thoughts? well, i think you re right, michael. i heard and saw the news this morning and five minutes later you know, this was first of all, it wasn t surprising, right? people, i think, almost everybody who sees or hears this news today will say i m not surprised. so but to your point about the teflon nature of this, donald trump supporters are supporting him because he s a disruptor, because he s standing in for them for people who feel like they ve been left behind, like they were part of america when it was great in their mind, and it s not great now, because their quality of life has changed, their job prospects
racist things through policy. and so it wasn t surprising, but it was so unfortunate on a week when we were honoring the legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. that the president would, with no sense of irony, stand there after saying racist things in the white house. how about from a republican perspective, joe is? what was your reaction? do you make any fact that ben carson, the only member of the president s cabinet attending that event? yeah. well, there continues to be a lack of diversity at the white house and the administration. it is just painfully obvious. you see the same people over and over at these functions. there should be african-americans on the single most levels of the white house. how african-americans feel about his policies. it s important for a president to hear what people have to say, whether they like it or not. i m african-american. i happen to be republican.
there. but you can really see the pressure that the president is putting on his justice department with these signals to hillary clinton and it s i don t think coincidental that we had the news this week that there are actual investigations into hillary clinton, into the e maimai mails that she sent as well as her aides and the clinton foundation. this seems to be an effort by the justice department and attorney general jeff sessions himself trying to keep his job and doing what the president wants him to do as we get more information about this mueller investigation. yeah. looking into folks, looking into people within his own circle, so that wasn t surprising. you know, as much as the appellate a president and those assembled with him, those 23 folks trying to discuss the 2018 agenda, there was no escaping the aftermath of all the revelations in this book and in fact the question was posed to the
focused on a criminal investigation. criminal investigations are narrow by definition. they re secret, we hope, by the way they re undertaken. and this is a political scandal, a national security scandal, as much as or more than the specifics of a criminal probe. but because congress is being slow at the very least, or incompetent or worse, in the investigations they re doing. we re all looking at mueller and at this criminal probe and that may not tell us some of the underlying really big questions we need answers to. we heard from our jurors who are right behind you. they came here with an open mind. what did you think? they didn t surprise you about their reactions, as people who aren t maybe steeped in it the way you too are. wasn t surprising. they were all over the place which is what you expect there a jury when you get 12 people together who don t know each other and come from all different walks of life. so i wasn t surprised they came