washington post, and maya wily and senior vice president for social justice. and michael wolf is a journalist and author of siege trump under fire. a tale of two trumps. the president bashes the speaker of the house and then honors america s greatest generation. will the real donald trump please stand up? on these bluffs, on this day for their brothers, for their countries and for the survival of liberty. before you said you didn t care if mueller testified. let me tell you, he made such a fool out of himself because what people don t ort is the letter he had to do to straighten out his testimony because his testimony was wrong. tested in the trial of war and proven in the blessings of peace, our bond is unbreakable.
probe, essentially, undercutting what mueller was doing, suggesting that it was biased. 13 angry democrats. all these little tag lines that he came up with. and the result has been that his base doesn t think that mueller find anything that was problematic for the president. we ve seen that over and over. we ve seen it in polling. yet for some reason, president trump still feels compelled to say, to make these claims. obviously, the fact that he was doing it while sitting next to a cemetery, you know, mueller is an honored army ranger, i mean, that is obviously disconnecting of itself. that he s having this fight, still, he still insists upon, he can t simply just say, you know what, robert mueller s work is done, we re done with that, and move past it, is pretty stunning even two years into this administration. matthew, i want to bring you in now. the inappropriateness aside, can you give us some clarification on what trump is talking about when he says mueller s testimony ? i me
of americans it s what they re going to see and hear and finally understand. yeah. i think, listen, think that s a very astute observation or analysis, matthew. philip, listen, i think he s right when, because there are people who are out there you saw some of the town halls and some of the people, especially the woman who said i didn t know there was anything negative in there about the president in the entire mueller report, and you would think, well, where s she been? but people listen to the news that reaffirms their beliefs. so, you know, the special counsel getting up there and speaking, you know, at a hearing for the world to see in front of cameras live on television, that could have a big impact. yeah, i mean, it could. the challenge, though, is actually after mueller gave his statement last week, i went back and i watched the fox news broadcast that night and into the next morning. the fox & friends. and looked at how they covered it. the way they covered it is how yo
do you mind if he testifies still? before you said you didn t care if mueller testifies. let me tell you, he made such a fool out of himself the last time she because what people don t report is the letter he had to do to straighten out his testimony because his testimony was wrong. nothing the president said there is true. mueller has not testified. the entire debate right now is about whether and when he will. so let s discuss now, joining me now is philip bump, matthew rosenberg, and also april ryan. good evening to all of you. by the way, april is the author of under fire: reporting from the front lines of the trump white house. again, hello to everyone. philip, i m going to start with you because you just heard president trump, he s yards away from the graves of the american heroes, anniversary of d-day. he called a vietnam veteran a fool. i mean, what is the point of continuing this bash of robert mueller? i mean, it s a great question. i mean, especially because if y
him a second term. interesting. matthew, a source is telling cnn that jerry nadler is privately he would like to issue mueller a subpoena, mueller, within weeks, to mueller within weeks. what is he waiting for? good question. i mean, i think thank you. they ve been talking to mueller you know, i think this is something they wanted to do without a subpoena. they wanted everybody to come along voluntarily. and i don t think they want to turn it into something confrontational or for it to appear that way, but i do think they want him there and i think, you know, there s a difference between reading and hearing. we saw that today with the voicemail that was released from the president s lawyer to michael flynn s lawyer. we had read the transcript of this voicemail a few weeks ago in the mueller report. but hearing it made it seem much more real and much more present and i think they understand that, that even if mueller gets up there and recites his report,