this is definitely not about me. this is not about scooter libby, it s about donald trump and his future. it s very clear that this was a message he s sending, that you can commit crimes against national security and you will be pardoned. i think he s got an audience of three right now, there would be manafort, flynn, an questionnaire and perhaps others i think valerie plame must be a key player if she knows what s going on inside donald trump s head. i certainly don t. i don t know why he decided to pardon scooter libby, i really don t know because i had no conversations with the white house about this. i hope that wasn t the message because i think there is a big difference between the investigation of the link of valerie plame s name and the mueller investigation. i think the mueller probe is about something real and whether
the other thing that surprises me is how pitchy the book is. comey goes out of his way to say the president isn t as tall as he thought he was, he checked out the sides of his hands the first time they shook hands. one can argue by getting into the kind of political sight, that he s done more damage to his reputation than he did to president trump s. martha: chris wallace earlier today saying what some are thinking with the early stages of what has been james comey s book and some are wondering if it may end up doing him more harm than good. did you tell him that the dossier had been financed? no. i talked about additional material. did he have a right to know that? that it had been financed by
of next gen climate. we will talk about pittsburgh in a little bit. but i want to start about john carry, former presidential secretary of state. was on meet the press this morning and he had a response to donald trump s decision to pull out of the paris accords on the basis he could actually get a better deal by pulling out. take a listen. when donald trump says to the world, well, we re going to negotiate a better deal, i mean, you know, he s got to go out and find a better deal, that s like o.j. simpson saying he s going to go out and find the real killer. everybody knows he isn t going to do that because he doesn t believe in it. if he didn t believe in it, you wouldn t pull out of paris. president trump has knowed no desire to do anything beneficial to climate or to environmental issues. actually, what they have shown is a deconstruction of those
context but also calling him essentially an idiot when this guy is realing along with his city and needs our support. it is interesting to see he attacked him but not theresa may. attacking the mayor, the first muslim mayor of a major city in the west and that is very interesting to note, that that is the line of direction that president trump took. yeah. i m sure that s completely a coincidence that he only attacked the first muslim mayor and not tereheresa may. you have two pieces here. you have the fact that donald trump is once again reasserting that banning an entire religious class would end the stabbing attack when we have evidence that a stabbing attack could happen if muslims were all beamed up in space. so that s not true. but on the other hand the increased attacks against muslims, the increased fear in these communities.
so at the one hand, the president thinks he s helping himself, but at the other probably the long-term could wind up biting him. dean, you are a brilliant guy and a lawyer. yes. you know, my first thought was, oh, dude, you probably don t read law fair blog. because the big argument over the supreme court and how it will decide on the travel ban is whether or not the court can use the statements made by trump and his fellow colleagues during the campaign. whether these past statements were operative. even if they threw all tse out today, they now could use his statement on the day of the london attacks, reasserting the very thing they say is not true, that it is a muslim travel ban. besides breitbart and drudge, i don t think donald trump reads anything else. now, we don t know where the