Interviews with political figures and news updates. Lets take a look. This whole thing about flipping, they call it. I know all about flipping, for 30, 40 years, ive been watching flippers. It almost ought to be outlawed, its not fair. If somebody defrauded a bank and hes going to get ten years in jail or 20 years in jail but if you can Say Something bad about donald trump and youll go down to two years or three years which is the deal he made, in all fairness to him, most people are going to do that. And ive seen it many times. Ive had many friends involved in this stuff. Its called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. It almost ought to be illegal, barbara . What is that telling you as a former prosecutor . I think its an appalling statement. He calls it flipping. I call it telling the truth. When someone has information about criminal liability and they want to plead guilty, if they want to go under oath and tell the truth they get something in chanexchange for t. Thats how o
i don t think any president has ever done what i ve done. so jeremy, you re out there talking to a lot of republicans. after all the events of this week, you re sensing that some of them are finally beginning to be very worried about this white house. yeah, i would say that s a little bit of grade inflation there, andrea, a-plus is certainly not what i think most republicans would give him, even. what they say publicly is one thing, and as i said, publicly they re fearful of breaking with him. privately it s another matter. and that s where there s real concern. i ve spoken with some republicans over the last couple of days who say that they are worried that the kind of voter that they need to turn out in the midterm, this conservative-leaning republican who is skeptical of trump but willing to look the other way on his various improprieties and screw-ups because they like the tax cuts, because they like the
congress, we ll be able to do that. have you talked to trey gowdy or anyone else on the republican side about trying to get him in? well, i ve read from a spokesperson for trey gowdy, he said that our committee would not do it because we don t investigate criminal activity. well, that s simply not accurate. we do, have done it in the past. and we i m sure will do it again. but the fact is that the republicans, andrea, have done everything in their power to wall off president trump. and since chairman gowdy has been chairman, he has not issued one single subpoena to the white house. not one. and democrats have requested those subpoenas but he s failed
crime if that can be proved. kristen, is the white house focused on this? is there any alarm bells going off? this is the first instance we ve. a legal question, civil yet at this stage, against the adult children of donald trump. well, i ve been talking to officials here, andrea, but that. and all of the other controversies that have erupted this week, frankly. they ve been downplaying all of this, not commenting on the record, certainly, about those new revelations about the trump organization. the broader thinking here within the administration is, look, president trump has not erupted yet. yes, he has lashed out on twitter. but you saw him ignore shouted questions. he was pretty disciplined during that campaign event in west virginia. yet some of his allies are bracing for what they ve described as a potential meltdown. we ve seen this happen in the past. they re concerned about the split screen this week of michael cohen and paul manafort and then these new revelations