senator? rosenstein, who he s holding up there as someone who did the right thing, is the guy who referred this to the southern district of new york, where trump s appointee went ahead and went for this search warrant. what do you make of his response to the question? i think the question is frustrated that the attacks keep coming and that everything he s trying to do in running the country, like dealing with the issue of syria, keeps getting side tracked with more and more investigations. i understand frankly, i sympathize with the president s frustration with jeff sessions recusing himself. i don t think there should have been a special counsel. i ve said that on this network for over a year now, because they can be endless, as we saw with ken starr and a lot of others. but you got, what, 16 people charged? i mean, hard to say it wasn t worth doing. with all due respect, erin, none of them with respect to what the investigation was all about. collusion with the russians. i
michael cohen because the $130,000 payment looked like a massive violation of campaign finance laws. that s going to be the extent of it? certainly possible. the public reporting shows there may have been bank fraud dating back several years. but we know the judge thought mike cohen wasn t going to cooperate. one of the requirements they have to show, they could have t gotten this information no other way. they felt like they didn t have the cooperation at all. you heard what the president said there, the attorney general made a mistake when he recused himself. we would have put a different attorney general in. he made a big mistake for the country. trump talking about bias, witch-hunt disgrace referring to bob mueller s team. is bob mueller s job at risk now
because we are in such dire financial straits we should cut $61 billion from the 2011 budget right now. that s their conventional wisdom. the terrifying investment bank goldman sachs this week did a non-partisan assessment for one of their clients about what the effect would be on the economy if john boehner gets his way, if the house republican budget is actually put into effect. check it out. a confidential new report prepared by goldman sachs for its clients says spending cuts passed by the house of representatives last week would be a drag on the economy, cutting economic growth by about 2% of gdp. two points off the now that owl those jobs got saved, now that we still have car companies in america, now that gm s making $5 billion a year in profit, if you liked the advice from speaker boehner that that wasn t worth doing, can i sell you a budget plan for the country that s designed to reduce economic growth by two points? any takers? joining us now is eugene robinson, pulitzer pr
nation is so broke we cannot afford to spend any money. house republicans under the leadership of mr. boehner say because we are in such dire financial straits we should cut $61 billion from the 2011 budget right now. that s their conventional wisdom. the terrifying investment bank goldman sachs this week did a non-partisan assessment for one of their clients about what the effect would be on the economy if john boehner gets his way, if the house republican budget is actually put into effect. check it out. a confidential new report prepared by goldman sachs for its clients says spending cuts passed by the house of representatives last week would be a drag on the economy, cutting economic growth by about 2% of gdp. two points off the now that all those jobs got saved, now that we still have car companies in america, now that gm s making $5 billion a year in profit, if you liked the advice from speaker boehner that that wasn t worth doing, can i sell you a budget plan for the country t
right now. that s their conventional wisdom. the terrifying investment bank goldman sachs this week did a non-partisan assessment for one of their clients about what the effect would be on the economy if john boehner gets his way, if the house republican budget is actually put into effect. check it out. a confidential new report prepared by goldman sachs for its clients says spending cuts passed by the house of representatives last week would be a drag on the economy, cutting economic growth by about 2% of gdp. two points off the now that owl those jobs got saved, now that we still have car companies in america, now that gm s making $5 billion a year in profit, if you liked the advice from speaker boehner that that wasn t worth doing, can i sell you a budget plan for the country that s designed to reduce economic growth by two points? any takers? joining us now is eugene robinson, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the washington post and an msnbc contributor. gene, it is great t