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was obvious the meeting was to get information from foreign nationals which is a crime. lawyers running around collusion is not a crime. anybody knows a low he ranking congressman like i was in my first year understood you can t get an in kind contribution from mullahs in iran or vladimir putin in russia. that s right, joe. the president is concerned. he s anxious, fearful about where this is all headed. his legal team is focused on that trump tower meeting as they have been for some time. that s a key moment in the mueller investigation. our reporting, despite what the president tweeted in response to it very much is that he s worried about don junior, expressed that worry to people he s been talking to on the phone, privately brouting about this. mueller seems to be inching
closer and closer to the oval office, to the people in the president
I see this, you know, as it might be the beginning of a coronation, not a real challenge. you know, amanda, i get tired saying this, but we republicans, and i can talk about you and me here, we republicans used to care about winning elections. in fact, i don t know, you can accuse some of us of carrying maybe a little too much of winning elections. you bring these things up, and there will be people out in trump land going, oh, left-wing traitor. left-wing subversive, left-wing this. we re talking about deficits. we re talking about debt. we re talking about the constitution. we re talking about the things that reagan talked about, protecting freedom in western europe, protecting freedom in central europe, protecting freedom in eastern europe. we re talking about these basic
Republican primary voters. by the way, that clip kind of captures just the awkwardness of ron desantis who spent much of the debate shouting and, you know, the man does not seem comfortable in his own skin. can t quite figure out, how do you run against donald trump without antagoniing the majority of republicans who don t want to talk about january 6th, who don t want to, you know, confront the fact that the former president of the united states might be a convicted felon by, you know, november? so there was there were little outbreaks of clarity and principle there, and i think you saw that. also, just so bush league. it was just so bush league of ron desantis, like, screeching, really, are we going to talk? very shouty. it is very shouty and nervous
Republicans record was horrific. you can go back through my twitter feed. come on, republicans, speak up. speak out. he s bankrupting america. he s stealing from our children. do something. say something! i went to mark memeadows, had lunch with him when he was the head of the freedom caucus, like, buddy, stop all this insanity, and worry about first thing s first. like, you guys are bankrupting america. you re supposed to be the conservative group that stops this. but they wouldn t do it. donald trump, a guy who promised he d pay down the debt, is the guy who put us $8 trillion deeper in debt. we went more in debt in donald trump s four years stay with me. if there are republicans, stay with me, because you have to understand how this guy, this guy who is so damaging, not just to our constitution but to our