So no matter where youre going. Were right there with you. The powerful backing of american express. Dont do business without it. Dont live life without it. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight august in washington feels even hotter than usual. President trump today publicly roaring as one paper puts it. Speaking out on twitter about that trump tower meeting. Possibly putting himself and his son in front of legal jeopardy. The president also ramping up his campaigning ahead of november while taking a shot at ohios favorite son ahead of a highstakes Special Election. Plus, when governor jay inslee was asked whether hell
take on trump in 2020, he said hes running against him already. Ill ask him what that means when he joins me live. And congressman Seth Moulton Turning fellow vetd ranz into members of congress. He joins me live as well. But first President Trump who is spending his sunday at his golf club
Reports and interviews that give viewers a look inside the corridors of power in Washington, D. C. My panel. Joining me on set political reporter to axios, jonathan schwan. Greg bauer, former u. S. Attorney and fbi assistant director. Ken dilanian who covers security and intelligence for nbc news. And White House Correspondent for bloomberg news, Shannon Petty piece along with Ashley Parker doing white house duty for the Washington Post at trumps summer get away in new jersey. Thanks to all of you for being here on this sunday night. I want to set the stage with you first, mr. Brower, about the potential legal jeopardy the president is putting himself in or not. How do you assess the statement that jay sekulow made there essentially saying that its not illegal . Do you think that they are now in a worse legal position than they were . Well, they are certainly not doing themselves any favors with statements like this. Ive said it before, ill say it again. Its a really bad idea for the s
and robert mueller and his team of fbi agents, prosecutors are not talking back to that. all they re doing is potentially working an extra hour at night on the trump investigation. it s just a bad idea from a strategic level and it remains to be seen whether it s going to get him in legal trouble. ashley parker, can i ask you kind of what your sense is? you re there at bedminster covering the president s vacation. there is a lot of unoccupied time on his schedule going forward that could potentially lead to more of these i mean, has his staff tried to manage that? is that a good plan generally speaking for him? how much more trouble could he cause? well, these periods of unstructured time as i believe jonathan wrote tonight, they used to be something that his staff would stress out about. they would try to fill his days with meetings and briefings just to keep him occupied to prevent exactly what we re seeing. the president watching cable news and tweeting about it, tweets that n
you re there at bedminster covering the president s vacation. there is a lot of unoccupied time on his schedule going forward that could potentially lead to more of these i mean, has his staff tried to manage that? is that a good plan generally speaking for him? how much more trouble could he cause? well, these periods of unstructured time as i believe jonathan wrote tonight, they used to be something that his staff would stress out about. they would try to fill his days with meetings and briefings just to keep him occupied to prevent exactly what we re seeing. the president watching cable news and tweeting about it, tweets that no one knows are coming. if you look at his public schedule for the week, he has a lot of unstructured down time. so i think we can expect to see more of this. the one wrinkle i will add is that this past week, for instance, he did three of these megarallies in five days. that is a calculation for the midterms. he s going out and campaigning