factual information rather than a recommendation. solt president doesn so the president doesn t want the fbi involved. remember yesterday the interview with the hill, he said that the fbi was corrupt and that the krum corruption was a cancer on the country. so he is not in great relation ship with the fbi. but the senators on the republican side are deciding they do not want an fbi investigation because this would drag it on possibly for weeks. much closer to the midterm if not beyond. and the president does rely on the fact that the fbi has conducted this background check into judge kavanaugh six times. so i guess the question is, is irony dead. he wants to hang kavanaugh s credibility and sort of integrity on the fact that the fbi mass investigated him six times. while at the same time calling them a cancer that he hopes to eradicate. yeah, that was a pretty good
laura: do you know when exactly? late september. laura: ultimately, they didn t move on this until late october. : solt good fbi agents brought this to our attention. but what could we do with it? laura: there is another exchange i want to bring to your attention. it s all classified. this is the game that comey and company have been playing. laura: well, they all thought hillary was going to win. rocking the boat was tough. he made a decision to go after that laptop, someone find out about it, they will think the election is illegitimate. that s true. i think the same people in charge today still believe they can run the clock out and they are trying to run the clock out for the rest of this congress so we can t finish our investigations. laura: are there still people in the fbi that believe they operate by a different set of
awards airs tonight. listen, it s going to be a lot more than glitz and glam this year. have launched this movement, it s called time s up. they want to combat sexual harassment and promote gender equality. in solt aired, many attendees are planning to wear black on the red carpet to call attention to the issue. here with us to discuss, pop culture editor for the washington post. zach, good morning to you. good morning. so we want to talk about the me too movement in just a moment, but first, this is an award show, a big night for hollywood, movies and television. leading contenders, list them off for us. the leading contender for best picture drama is the shape of water. a very charming movie about a cleaning woman who falls in love with a sea creature. i think it will win over the
solt the junior staffers floating around the white house in junior positions, they re not scared because they don t know enough to be scared. that s way i d read it. your thinking. mueller is formidable, as you point out. he is all substance. he is no flash. he will indict a case or indict multiple cases if they should be indicted. he will feel no pressure to indict if the evidence doesn t lead him there. i think, though, what we re seeing is these white house junior staffers come for academy award and say they re not concerned is a public face. i would be very surprised if we saw people publicly announcing that they were concerned and thought that they were to be indi indicted. this is a little bit of a public relations strategy that is going on right now. ashley, could bit that the ones who are both who feel the most secure are the ones who weren t invited to the party? they didn t do any obstruction. they weren t invited to anything with collusion. they just weren t part of th