i don t think any rational person can look at what is going on. i don t just mean russia. i also mean trump undermining the eu and nato and others. there s no reason except for i think a bad one for the president to lean so clearly towards putin and then from someone from the home land security perspective, the elections in 2018 are literally a heartbeat away at this stage. the fact that the president cannot see the vulnerabilities as related by the secretary of home land security herself is, i think, is a dangerous zone we re entering. jim? i think the president in a tweet is con flating. i don t believe he is confused. i belief he is conflating the two. we can leave it there. to say the eu and how they treated the eu, he wanted the eu to pay their fair share. that s what he went in there and d he didn t do anything out of the, you know, he did something that other folks were not willing to take on. the united states should not be shouldering this burden.
week was, but most trump supporters understand it. the president will say things that just are not necessarily consistent with what his administration is advocating and is going off script for someone that is unpredictable in that way. i think what most members of congress do is they look at the situation and say what the president is troubled with, is con flating this idea that his election is illegitimate i get all of that, so why blame the u.s.? i just don t think the president has done a very good job in his own mind. they are separating out the issue as to whether or not russia got involved in the
used. the words should not have been aired. it was our mistake to. wanda, what is your reaction to this? i agree, the comments were shocking and offensive and inappropriate. they shouldn t have been said. it comes at a moment where we are having comments about the comments roseanne barr made about valley jarrett, a former obama adviser. do not put the two together. what roseanne barr said about valerie jarrett was racist. what was said about ivanka trump was hateful. there s space between the two. we are talking two different things here. neither one of them should have been said, they are both inappropriate. i agree with that. i think it is con flating. first of all, i tweeted this, i don t think samantha bee should have said this. it s massage nist when you use this language against women. i have been critical of plenty of people all over the spectrum when they do it.
now it s in cleanup mode. sometimes when you clean up you don t have a lot of good options. melissa: that would be the best option at this point, do you think, just totally shut up and move on? i think there s two separate things of the congressman before, i think, is con flated. the cohen investigation is separate from the mueller investigation. cohen is southern district of new york, it s run out of that office. the white house approach to that should be, look, we re not indicted, we re not involved, michael cohen was doing things. sure there may have been payments but we did everything according to what our lawyer, michael cohen, told us was appropriate. a legal defense strategy that says i relied on my lawyer may get the president out of trouble. melissa: hmm. and you said he s con flating two things. what was the other thing? they re not connected. mueller isn t driving the cohen investigation, there s different prosecutors, a different investigationive team, four differen
we have yet to reach an agreement on the path forward that would be acceptable to both sides. still after the announcement, john cornyn, the second highest ranking republican, telling reporters he was optimistic about the vote. let s bring in garrett and jeff. now a little vision on what might happen, who might jump on the democratic side to support this idea coming from mitch mcconnell? reporter: just the more i listen to the mitch mcconnell sound bite, the more i think republicans think they have a chance to win this here without giving up that much. they say the outline of the agreement is if they can t come