bump. from the washington post. who wrote about this today. thank you. of course. good to see he s still obsessed with 2016. tweeting out this map today. this map doesn t really make sense. it doesn t show what the president thinks it does. help us understand what s wrong with the president s logic. the brief version of this. we can go on for a while. he s trying to say i have such a big mandate. how can you impeach me? there s four problems. the first is obviously that huge red in the middle of the country is very few people live there. north dakota and south dakota, montana and idaho has half as many people as l.a. county. but it s 83 times the size. 83 times as many people. half as many voters. it s a misrepresentation of scale. he doesn t want to talk about who actually won the most votes in 2016. he s on the short end of that. a good analogy i saw online over
he won in 2016. try to impeach this. it s misleading and inaccurate. i want to bring in phillip bump. from the washington post. who wrote about this today. thank you. of course. good to see he s still obsessed with 2016. tweeting out this map today. this map doesn t really make sense. it doesn t show what the president thinks it does. help us understand what s wrong with the president s logic. the brief version of this. we can go on for a while. he s trying to say i have such a big mandate. how can you impeach me? there s four problems. the first is obviously that huge red in the middle of the country
in the room. i can t remember when that wouldn t happen. but second they didn t have a note taker. and that is important for a couple of reasons. one because of this he said/he said kind of outcome. believe me i dealt with that with sergei lavrov when i was in the government. we had to dweel that to rebut things he would say. but more importantly there is a transcript for the rest of the trump administration. how do you make policy or implement policy when you are flying blind you don t know what was said. that was a big mistake on their part. gentlemen good to talk to you. thanks for being with us. coming up next ahead of this all important meeting with vladimir putin, the president was reliving 2016. tweeting about former clinton chairman john podesta. that s ahead when the 11th hour returns.
the president of russia. all of the issues they had to cover were national security. of course. whether hacking the election or syria or north korea or nato. everything was a national security issue. there was nothing else on the agenda that was meaningful. exactly. and every president most certainly our national security advisers in the obama era were in the room. i can t remember when that wouldn t happen. but second they didn t have a note taker. and that is important for a couple of reasons. one because of this he said/he said kind of outcome. believe me i dealt with that with sergei lavrov when i was in the government. we had to dweel that to rebut things he would say. but more importantly there is a transcript for the rest of the trump administration. how do you make policy or implement policy when you are flying blind you don t know what was said. that was a big mistake on their part. gentlemen good to talk to you. thanks for being with us. coming up next ahead of this