someone said to me you described the firing of james comey, you re a student of history, as the biggest mistake in political history. that would be probably that would probably be too bombastic even for me. maybe modern political history. the firing of james comey was a biggest mistake in modern political history? if you re saying that s associated with me, i ll leave it at that. and david frum, days later we have a dramatic account from inside the oval office, something steve bannon would have been able to provide to the new york times and now that steve bannon is a fired former trump white house player. david. sorry. sorry. go ahead. i want your reaction to the coincidence of steve bannon being fired out of the white house and now stories like this start to come out.
the two have some rapaport. he said they talk more in non washington terms he understands. according to people familiar with their meetings and, tim o brien, i think we know what we have got going on there. chuck schumer knows how to play this guy. he does. and the mystery here is that trump needs mcconnell and ryan ultimately much more than he needs pelosi and schumer but because he deals at this very shallow, superficial level of can i that you can to you or do you look like a boy scout, he runs into serious problems getting the legislation pushed through. david, it seems the president loses sight of the fact that nancy pelosi doesn t have the ability to advance legislation in the house of representatives. there isn t a process for her to get a bill brought up and get a vote on anything. almost a similar constraint on chuck schumer. and you can t move anything
to accept that promise. i think rehe nekt 2020 is difficult for the president with amnesty of daca and if amnesty with daca and a wall is not at least under robust construction by then. tim, there s the terms of the moster if vert trump supporters. nothing they call amnesty. in fact, that was a very sober moment with steve king because on twitter today he actually said if trump pursues this course he will blow up the relationship with the base and he is done. and that everyone will realize that none of his promises are reliable. that s the dangerous ground. rush limbaugh suggests that. 39 instances of trump trashed amnesty. reminding him that he has a long history of the other side of this issue. he s in trouble with the base around this stuff. tim and david, thanks for joining us tonight.
judge sugarman from fordham university. david, your reaction to this news today from deep inside the trump administration which remains the leakiest white house in history, even after general kelly came in there to stop the leaks. the new york times has apparently when you look at it more sources than they needed to construct this dramatic scene for us today. it s important i think to give credit to attorney general sessions who has held fast. he s been obviously as you can see here under ferocious presidential pressure, wanted the investigation stopped. jeff sessions who stepped out of the way to allow rod rosenstein to make the decision. under unrelenting pressure and stayed the course. sessions is a very conservative person. but he is an institutionalist and put in a position before the nomination where i think for reasons of self preservation, he said things that were not true