wh what he s doing over in europe now, trashing the alliance with europe, the marshall plan, everything we built since world war ii, you know, i think buckley was the most reasonable guy in the world compared to this guy. he would not recognize the world where the soviet or the former there i go again. where russia seems to have a greater sale ye yens in the whi house than germany. so much of the cold war was fought over germany. where is that now? where is that strain of people that read books, write books, write columns, take this sing seriously, this conservative mop movement. ? the movement is having a great deal of difficulty. there are people like george will and bret stephens. will can t stand trump. these are what i call the last of the buckley conservatives. they need to pick up, i think, the torch, bring it to the campus, do what bill did, build a movement. that s true. when he started out, he was the only one. my students don t seem to
outgross them? yeah, they re going to lose. and it was hideous and wrong. good for you. you know t clearly was an attempt to draw attention to herself. this is not the kind of attention i think she would have wished to draw. it s so hard to gross people out today. i m sorry, the standard is so off. the washington post reported the trump administration is moving toward handing back to russia two diplomatic compounding near new york city and near maryland s eastern shore shore. so that story talks for itself. the tru jonathan, here s the question. who wants to go work for trump these days? not many people. this is why the names that you hear are people like corey lewandowski. corey has nothing to lose. he is slavishly loyal to donald trump. nobody in the white house trusts him or likes him besides donald trump, steve bannon, maybe keith schiller at a stretch. he s widely regarded as one of
welcome back to hardball. the new york times and politico are reporting that president trump and his son-in-law, jared kushner, are increasingly isolated today and hunkering down as the political storm continues to grow. in what seems like constant rumors of shake-up in the white house. there are reports that the president is driving away potential candidates for west wing jobs, and this comes after the news that his communications director just walked. he just resigned. and over the weekend, the washington post reported that trump associates said there have been conversations about dispatching priebus to serve as ambassador to greece. is that a joke? who knows? let s bring in the roundtable hardball, howard fineman, sabrina siddiqui, political reporter for the guardian. what do you think of this kathy griffin thing? look, i think that you know where the line is these days? i think it s getting blurry. it s getting blurry, and she did apologize. she knows she crossed the
meeting was actually the meeting with the banker because the official line is that maybe they needed this back channel in order to try and bring peace to syria. what would a banker, a russian banker, have to do with that any more than a german banker or a banker from any other part of the world? you have to put this all in context of what was happening in the time. well, you help us with syria, we ll relieve the sanctions. i can see that deal. that flynn was discussing sanctions with kislyak, these are things that we know, which was that trump wanted to potentially explore an executive order lifting those sanctions. you ve got to put it in context in terms of why is that criminal? i don t know that it s criminal. i spoke to an fbi official who had been briefed on this investigation as of a few months ago, and i don t think they know the answers to these questions that you re raising about what these meetings were about. they don t know, but the trump people know it all. j