his campaign, they were all fired or hounded out of their jobs. but then, last month, christopher steele popped up again. he did an hour-long interview special with abc news is george stephanopoulos. in that interview, he said he stood behind his work, he said he still believes nothing in those reports has been disproven. and we ve all been sort of wondering about the timing of. that why all this time did he come out to publicly defend his work. well, now maybe this is it, today the special counsel that was appointed during the trump administration, prosecutor cast by trump s attorney general bill barr. with investigating the russia investigation itself. to prove the whole thing was a hoax, that trump said all along to try to prove that it was criminal to investigate the russia matter. that special prosecutor, has just issued his second indictment. in the man he arrested in charge today, was a primary source for christopher steele s intelligence reports in 2016.
was what the texans call all cattle and no hat. thank you, chuck. are you sure you got that right? the actual phrase is all hat and no cow. trump continues to say no more nuclear testing, rockets flying all over the place, blew up launch sites. yo were there in singapore covering this summit. did trump get as much as he is claiming to have gotten? i don t think he clearly didn t get as much as he is claiming to have gotten in that he claimed that the nuclear menace is no longer wit us and everybody should sleep well at night. i think trump got what he wanted out of the summit in that i think that these world events are sort of an end in themselves for trump. he is talking about a summit with vladimir putin. i think that the spectacles are really what trump wants and then he will leave details to others.
blatantly disclosing their political bias and talking about it in a way that they were bring tg to the table in terms of their work. but clearly mueller making some progress here. even as you have obviously doubts being cast by trump, by his lawyers and increasingly some republicans saying maybe it is time to wrap this thing up, mueller scoring points with paul manafort in jail at this point. he is definitely going to put the pressure to manafort and see if he flips. i think i agree in terms of the d.o.j. report i think this whole revelation of text messages where an fbi agent said we would do something about it you can t overstate the significance of that on capitol hill when it comes to republicans taking this revelation and trying to say the mueller probe has no legitimacy.
trade war? china warning as president trump announces reciprocal round of tariffs trump is moving forward with import tax. that decision comes after hitting u.s. allies with tariffs in mexico, canada and the eu. for trump this is just another example of america first before the gop. it is more proof that it is his party now. politico put it this way. this is the new republican party saying in very colorful language put a blond comb-over on the elephant. take down the pictures of a s o abraham lincoln. there is a real good reason they haven t blocked him. trump has an 87% approval rating among republicans. the only president to score
basically saying that it s a mistake at the soul level to pledge allegiance to donald trump. i think if you look at the mid terms people running particularly in the red states that is what they are going to do. you re right. he is not alone in saying this. we heard the same from jeff flake and bob corker. if you define yourself to opposition of trump, you can define policies, you are going to lose. i think we have seen it clearly. you can do it if you are not facing an election. in an election year it is really going to hurt you. the other point i would make is that trump s policies, his aides have tried to hold him back. they tried to hold him back on tariffs and they succeeded for 18 months or so. and they tried to hold him back from attacking bob mueller personally. that also succeeded for 16 or so