September, then we have a very, very serious violation of the Justice Department rules that you shouldnt be conducting one of these investigations in the 60day period. There has been an informal tradition in the Justice Department. But in a recent report the Justice DepartmentInspector General noted the 60day rule is not written or described in any Department Day policy or regulation and does not call to an end for active investigations. Giuliani also attacked the Special Counsels motives. He knows the answers to every question he wants to ask. He is going to ask him did you do you think we are fools . You want to trap him into
perjury. The reality is that he doesnt need to ask a single question on obstruction, he has all the answers. The president is not going to change his testimony. Stop the nonsense. You dont have a case. President trump joining in on the Attack Tweeting today, this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corrupt and or conflicted it was started and paid for by crooked Hillary Clinton. The confrontation could be more political than legal. Jonathan swan of Axios Writing Giuliani is setting up unmeatable expectations for Special Counsel mueller a kind of Insurance Policy with the president s base by claiming
so doesnt work to attack the media to attack your opponents. I think in this case, Rudy Giuliani has been talking nonsense from the get go. He says what the law is what the law is not. Donald trump has never been in a position to sit down and testify under oath, not under oath because he cant tell the truth, and cant determine fact from fiction. He will either incriminate himself because keeps not understanding what is illegal or commit perjury. So i think the problem with their show is that they have been banking on frankly just like we heard last night from devin nunes. A lot of protection. What happens if that goes away. You have Real Committee chairman who is going to subpoena all documents and take their charge
Rudy Giuliani, with jay sekulow. Is he hughing to what he says. The president wants in a lawyer, is somebody to get out there and fight and say things that may not be the things that other lawyers would say. To get out on television and to challenge and stir up the political waters if you will. That is what Rudy Giuliani is doing. He is doing what the president wants him to do. That may not be the best strategy. It may be that another lawyer who has gone through these high profile cases want this kind of advice. The president wanted to be out there and mixing it up and sit back and play the lawyers game. I think this is the strategy that he wants. I hope if i get in trouble with a prosecutor, i get to decide what they ask and dont ask. He is bringing it out into the fall Election Campaign and
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. How essential is it then to get the interview . Well, they could, it depends on how much mueller wants to bank on this subpoena issue. Whether or not he feels on the law on his side. I personally think the law is on his side. A sitting president is not above the law. It wasnt exactly on point. It was for documents not tape and everything would indicate that the court would rule in muellers favor. It behooves both parties to do this voluntarily like clinton did. We saw him testify before the grand jury via video tape and that worked out for him. That is interesting too, there is negotiation with clinton. Ken starr give the subpoena. The issue may have never reached the Supreme Court. Jennifer rubin, that
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Up and trump doesnt show up, we continue to the Supreme Court and ultimately the Supreme Court is going to have to decide does the president of the United States in a criminal trial have to respond to a subpoena . Now once again, he could take the fifth amendment. That would be truly horrible for the head of the federal government to be interposing his own interest between that of Law Enforcement and the president of the United States. So that becomes a very painful exercise. And i think it is not a good look for the republicans to have the president claiming that he is above the law. It doesnt go over well and sits poorly with people. And i think it is going to be very hard if this thing goes up the chain for Republicans Who are likely to take quite a beating anyway in november to continue to defend this behavior. Peter, if it ended up playing
out this way, that would be playing out with the midterm elections sort of the backdrop with the midterm elections. Your sense in the white house do they believe this could be an asset for them or is this bluster. They might as well try to use it to generate as much passion as they can among supporters. Jennifer is right with what the clinton team did. They concluded they didnt have a legal case to stand on to resist the subpoena. And she was right, they didnt negotiate the subjects, they negotiated the time limits. They does have a midterm in that case as well. That influenced the Impeachment Effort in the hill. That could happen here. This is no question going to be
giuliani is wrong, is it is specifically for a candidate. Mueller and his team will take that into consideration. If they dont come down with an indictment or subpoena prior to September 1st they will wait. James comey didnt follow that rule. We all remember. So it is not really a hard and fast situation. All right. Thank you all for joining us. And coming up, remember when donald trump promised to hire quote the best people. Former Campaign Manager on trial. Two Cabinet Members forced to resign over ethics issue. Congressional supporters facing charges of insider trading. Speaking of november, going to head over to the big board and take a look at the state of
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ermichael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi. And Chris Collins charged with insider trading. Two of trumps cabinets were forced out over alleged ethical violations. Democrats hoping it might stir a backlash with voters in november. Joined by timothy obrian. What do we know about how donald trump hires people . If you are going to hire the best people, you have to be the best person and donald trump has never been the best person. He is not a sophisticated manager, not patient. He has always cut people quickly. If you dont build a strong team, you dont have a lot of loyalty and dont attract first
tier people to come to the team. He has attracted opportunist. The people who came into his campaign werent convinced that he was going to win the election and saw this as a quick hit. Low and behold he won. They went there to a certain expect they were on the dole, the trump dole. Joined by ruth marcus. I heard mike murphy on a podcast recently. He said he likened the Campaign Trump put together, the island of misfit toys. Making the point that we are
hearing here. Wouldnt have found a home in a lot of cases in other political campaigns. I have a very vivid memory of that when then candidate trump came to the Washington PostEditorial Board in march of the election list. He unveiled his list of Foreign Policy advisors. None of us really heard of. They included carter page and george papadopoulos. How did that one work out . That is interesting too, that has led to controversy, speculation and investigation and it ends up being a defense that you heard offered by trump allies that is essentially, hey, the guy put no effort into this. That ends up being the defense of carter page and george papadopoulos. Essentially saying trump didnt care, he wanted names on the page. He did care in the sense that
the people that he has surrounded himself with, i think tim is exactly right. The supply is limited. A lot of people who would ordinarily want to work in a white house scurry away. Also people who want to be surrounded by sycophants and want the adoring Cabinet Meeting and the ego stroking he basks in. And if you are not wanting to do that, he is hiring for the stroking. And if you are not willing to do that, he doesnt want you around him the guy who ran for president in 2016, a lot of people would argue he was in position because of the apprentice. The eye for talent and all that sort of thing. Im wondering, though, reputation politically now, a lot of people who have
traditional political resumes on the republican side do not want to be near this administration. Back in the days trump the business man, what was the reputation. It was a boutique mom and pop operation. Elite real estate laughed at him. Considered somewhat of a cartoon character. Selling this illusion of being a gifted entrepreneur and being someone who could spot talent. And sold the similar illusion on the Campaign Trail. It was a very apprentice type of promise which he largely has not been able to deliver on. Donald trump himself is enormously conflicted. He has more financial conflicts of interest than anybody else who has sat in the oval office. Anyone in the administration looking for guidelines whether you are wilbur ross or scott pruitt. Even if unconnected are piling up. There are threads getting easier to tie up. Republicans are out for themselves. Collins may be a minor figure in all of this. I wonder about that a little bit in this sense. In 2006, there were a number of republican congressional scandals, the one right before the election was mark foley. Drain the swamp. Is there any difference in how the public perceives this now only anybody tin the sense that of this about trump was aired in 2016. How much was baked in when he was elected. I think in 2018, you have an electorate that is convinced that the whole place stinks, swampy with democrats and swampy with republicans. And i think you make a really important point. The Culture Of Corruption Argument worked very well for democrats back in the day because the center piece of the corruption and the Corruption Scandals actually were in the congress. You had all of the jake abramo if. F. Here, it is a little bit of a
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question too, we are getting the impression that donald trump is going to spend a lot of time this fall on the Campaign Trail and he is out there, they may hand him in a script but he goes off the script. If he says something, it becomes the National Political debate for weeks. It may be the last thing they hear. Popularity, his appeal, doesnt translate. And we see that in a couple of examples when they get behind him. There was some surge in turnout that donald trump benefitted from in rural areas. I looked at ohio 12 this week, the places that surged to trump in 2016, strongly republican but
the energy level was low there relative to the suburban parts of the district. What is it that motivated them in 2016 and can it be replicated. The dirty secret is Republican Party is depressed. Not happy. You have an almost explicitly negative message. And negative messaging works. Donald trump is a reference on the election. It is not about a Foreign Policy issue. It is a values election. And the values are donald trump. Referendum up or down. It is going to reinforce that message. What is your reading . There is the debate, as best as i can see, was it cultural stuff that resonated in rural areas in the heart land . Was it trade, was it economic . 2016 . Yeah, all of those things. Negati negative referendum on Hillary Clinton. On the party in power. So again, i would like to see them run on a positive message of what we did this term, and did in congress, which was tax cuts. There is a story to tell but no one telling it. The folks that were with Hillary Clinton in 2016, we saw it again in ohio, it is there, clearly. I look to those areas, rural areas, i talk about the thing that was striking to me, parts of those districts that obama won. Barack obama was able to win these parts of the district. Is there a message from democrat the this midterm or is the democratic strategy no, our folks are energized and we are going to ride that. They must have a message. And that message has to do with this is a vote of your life, the direction of the country is not a good direction for you or your children and we need a new set of policies. It is a set of policies and deconstructing the United States. A range that are following those on the hill republican control. In 2016 we had Hillary Clinton. In some ways an unmotivated base. Those things in terms of motivating black voters, that is not quite the issue now. And of course there is issue stuff around russia. So folks are excited. Donald trump shows up anywhere, the Democratic Base will be motivated. Those folk who is dont vote, if
he shows up on the scene, they will be motivated. I keep talking about ohio, but he campaigned for balderson, The Next Day Kasich is saying i am not sure balderson wanted him to do that. At the house side, five or sixdozen of them, do they want him out there campaigning for them. These races show the suburban voter, the swing voter, purple voter. Republican policies so they would like to tamp that down and whether donald trump comes out there and talk about the tax laws or himself that remains to be seen. Hope hicks back into trumps
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right . And all i know is i remember reading fire and fury, that moment on two page 9. You got the page numbers here. Steve bannon loses his mind. He says i am going to tell your dad on you. He says donald trump jr. Will crack like an egg. She can still come back, but it still hovers over her head. You have the book memorized it sounds like. Noah, kansas governor race, i am fascinated by the irony that kris kobach made his name, it is going to come down to a recount that his office has control of statewide. This is a big moment for the Republican Party in a way. What he represents potentially being nominated in kansas versus
this Establishment Accountin a difference of votes. The president overruled some people around him and said i am going to endorse kris kobach, you dont normally do that. You dont do that for a reason. Incumbents have built in base of support and obviously donald trump commands a lot of power and influence within the Republican Party. And it doesnt get closer to 91 votes. Now we have basically an open war within the Republican Party in kansas over the future of this. And meanwhile, a democrat is going to be competitive. Kathleen sebillous is going
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