Why . Because information is powerful. Thats our closing thought for you. And that does it for the beat. I also want to say a big thank you to Ayman Mohyeldin and Chris Jansing for anchoring all last week. I will be back here at 6 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Big bad wolf. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews back in washington. Well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. And look, ive been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. And perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental stability only raised more questions about, you guessed it, his mental stability. And then there is the new hope of the resistance. Like other heroic figures, she goes by one name and one name
president. On saturday, President Trump tweeted, actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being really smart. I went from a very successful businessman to top tv st
let me go back to jill on this. it seems to me, how wide a question can you ask? can you say to a guy in the witness chair who is basically the target of the investigation, how many conversation and when were they, and i want them listed when you talked to anybody about the russians? i want to know in the last year who did you talk to about russians? just russians. just get it all on the paper. all the meetings, all the conversations with the people working for him, whether it s jared, his son-in-law, whoever it is. everything you talk to anybody bad about russia, i want the answer. they do that in court? can they do it in a deposition like this? in a deposition you could. in court you would have to be probably a little bit more specific or you d have relevance options. but right now i would say that any conversation he had with any member of his staff or with any russian directly would be relevant. the one thing i want to go back to something julius said, which is if you have writ
calls for her to run for president in 2020. and one guy who talked about her holding national office is donald trump. we ll get to my whose quote from my program. it is acknowledgment that democrats like a proven star, someone with charisma to take on trump? i think that may i be the back story here which they need somebody like her. they haven t found somebody like her, if not her. this is hardball, where the action. what comes next. if you move your old 401(k) to a fidelity ira, we make sure you re in the loop at every step from the moment you decide to move your money to the instant your new retirement account is funded. oh and at fidelity, you ll see how all your investments are working together. because when you know where you stand, things are just clearer. just remember what i said about a little bit o soul
and it was one of those things. that s why sloppy steve now looking for a job. that would be steve bannon, of course. another guy he doesn t like. according to michael wolff, the author of the new book, the people around the president think something is wrong with their boss. let s watch. everybody in this white house, and i keep saying this 100%, because it is 100% of the people closest to the president, to donald trump, believe that there is something wrong here, something something fundamentally wrong. something that scares them. as a matter of fact, they went from if there is any reason they stay in the white house now, it s because they are scared. they believe they have a responsibility to the american people. well, that scarce you. meanwhile, axios report there s is actually much less to the president s schedule than meets the eye. jonathan swan sitting to my left here writes president trump is starting his official day much later than he did in the early days of his presi
massacre. that s what made us different, really different. we were going to be the kind of country where even soldiers were going get the protections of law because we wanted those protections for ourselves. we wanted everyone to honor the law. think of george washington, who after serving two terms as president could easily have ruled this country like a dictator, who gave up all the trappings of office and went back to virginia. this is not some place where a guy who fightser for independence was going get the chance to become ruler for life and grab it. we re going to be a country where power, even out of our popular hero, was going to be limited. think of our free press, of people like thomas payne who wrote a pamphlet called common sense who demanded this country have independence. and more than that, we were going to be the kind of independent country as thomas jefferson advised where people if having to choose would demand a free press over any kind of government trying to den