Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
they didn t know what was happening. schif said on sunday he wants the attorney general merrick garland to provide more answers. the inspector skbrrn is doing an investigation. i talked with the attorney general about going beyond that. i think he needs to do a wholesale review of what the plitzation of the department of last four years. what happened to our committee? what happened to members of the press? that s just a subset. reporter: subpoenas came amid of a series of leak investigations that the justice department launched in 2017 and 2018. trying to find sources for news reports related to the trump/russia investigations. the justice department now said it s reviewing procedures for handling politically sensitive investigations and that changes could be in the works to make sure that top officials are made aware of investigations that could involve all right. thank you so much for that. summer travel is roaring back but american airlines
immediate snlg meddling? there are others that are considering making attempts in 2018, which is what our focus is, moving forward. as you know, none of us were here in 2016 but we re here now and individuals that were standing up here just moments ago the focus and full weight of the government asked by the president and directed by the president is to protect the election infrastructure in 2018 and moving forward and that s exactly what we re going to do. i can t get in specific details but our intelligence show there are a number of others that are looking at and considering engaging particularly in 2018. trying to help democrats you suggested the russians would be helping democrats in the mid-term elections. is there any evidence whatsoever that democrats, russians are trying to help democrats? i think you can see just from what took place over in the facebook, i know director wray
first year. the next highest first year turnover rate was half that. 17% for ronald reagan back in 1981. the fellow who conducted the analysis, katherine, said not only is the percentage double. the seniority of the people leaving is extraordinarily high. pretty interesting statistic. back with us, shannon. great to have you with us. look to 2018. trying to get agenda in order. seems to be major discrepancy what they want to start out. some want to go with entitlement. what will get the democrats on board. do you think the democrats are going to be inclined to cooperate with republicans, try to get things done ahead of a midterm election in 2018. in particular, when it comes to infrastructure, a lot of critics of trump were saying that it would have been really