he knew whe was doing, he knew he needed to be alone with the fbi director to make those points. he didn t want other people around. he knew what he was doing. he certainly did. any adult would know, you just don t ask somebody to drop a criminal investigation. that s the key right there. any adult. any adult. tom friedman, 61% of americans, we showed this poll a minute ago. 61% of americans believe that donald trump fired comey simply to protect himself. only 27% said he did it for the good of the country. approval ratings in the mid to high 30s now, historically low for a president at this stage. question is, how long do the republicans stand by this guy, who is lying every day, who certainly is, if not obstructing justice, is certainly threatening this investigation, bragging to the russians that he killed the investigation. and what does it say about the republicans today if they just
person that matters, and that is bob mueller and he is working quietly away at his desk day and night. there was a paragraph in the testimony yesterday that will be act two of this play which is where the president himself talks about, i didn t do anything but maybe satellites of our organization did something. it s the satellites that are going to consume washington for the next months and pbably years. once you start pulling into those satellites, it could be flynn, manafort, kushner, sessions. that s where this gets real dangerous. mark halperin, that was a fascinating part. i thought there were two really fascinating takeaways, one where trump sounds like a corleone in the godfather saying i need your loyalty, i demand your loyalty. but the other was when trump said, hey, if somebody around me did something wrong, go ahead, throw them under the bus, send
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a lot of people i ve talked to say i never wanted to do business with donald trump, he did things i wasn t comfortable with. i don t think this is all that radical a break. it s really important to see this in context in the timeline. on the night of the dinner, the 27th of january, what s just happened? acting attorney general sally yates has just come to the white house and said mike flynn has a serious problem, you hav somebody who isubject to blackmail. what happens the next day? the president has this one-on-one dinner with his fbi director and tries to get an expression of loyalty. he decides finally he has no course but to fire flynn. what does he do the next day? he pulls aside his fbi director and says, can t you let this go? had he made some sort of commitment to flynn that nothing further would happen as part of the resignation package? we don t know. we do have evidence that there
food and drinks. the president began by asking me whether i wanted to stay on as fbi director which i found strange because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations he hoped i would stay and i said i intended to. he said lots of people wanted my job and given the abuse i had taken in the previous year, he would understand if i wanted to walk away. my instincts told me that the one-on-one setting and the pretense that this was our first discussion about my position meant the dinner was, at least in part, an effort to have me ask for my job and create some sort of patronage relationship. that concerned me greatly given the fbi s traditionally independent status in the executive branch. let s stop right here. that is so clumsy. also not like trump to ever be alone with anybody. it s just a clumsy i m sorry. it s just sort of a thuggish way to go about you invite somebody over that you ve