The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Were not doing enough. Look at these five people. Heres the thing, john. There is a whole Cottage Industry of distraction folks. This is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. Im not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. The Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Special Counsel, Jeff Sessions fire series is one of them. There is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. I had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. One consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, Leadership Starts at the top. I asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration . Nobody, we dont know who the point person is, we dont know what their strategy is. This is somebody who is at a high level over there. This seemed to be a way of the whit
jong-un, duterte. these guys seem to, if not have an actual affinity for thugs, dictators and strong men, they certainly don t have an aversion to thugs, dictators and strong men. they don t vana version from making money from thugs, dictators and strong men. are these guys just peas in a pod here, is that the difference between manafort and donald trump? basically until we find out something more concrete. it seems to me dispositionally, both of them are not constrained by any ethical kind of commitments outside of the pursuit of their own interest. and, and what follows from that is that they re willing to, shall we say, push up against the lines of what s legal in pursuit of they are self-interest. what s interesting about this case, it s a documents case. we see underneath all the connections that would make i think donald trump go apoplectic. dispositionally they seem to be two peas in a pod.
my understanding is that there was little love lost between price and president trump. these are two very different men. price is southern, very conservative and he s very much in the paul ryan mold when it comes to how public figures present themselves and how they perform their work. meanwhile, donald trump, of course, dispositionally, extremely at odds with that. my sense is that their relationship was never a particularly warm one and then when you couple that with the fact that price became the face of this huge failure to appeal the affordable care act, it actually, this plane crisis was sort of my sense, the sense that i get from having conversations with folks is that it was a convenient reason for the president to shuttle off price but remember, the president has an extraordinarily high comfort level with controversies. this is a guy who is willing to give the benefit of the doubt to white supremacists in charlottesville. the idea he s worried about the
men. price is southern, very conservative and he s very much in the paul ryan mold when it comes to how public figures present themselves and how they perform their work. meanwhile, donald trump, of course, dispositionally, extremely at odds with that. my sense is that their relationship was never a particularly warm one and then when you couple that with the fact that price became the face of this huge failure to appeal the affordable care act, it actually, this plane crisis was sort of my sense, the sense that i get from having conversations with folks is that it was a convenient reason for the president to shuttle off price but remember, the president has an extraordinarily high comfort level with controversies. this is a guy who is willing to give the benefit of the doubt to white supremacists in charlottesville. the idea he s worried about the bad pr from people on fancy planes doesn t pass the lab test. he hired a lot of billionaires for people concerned about optics, jonathan
he tried to sort of clean them up. he offered to pay back $51,887 but not the full cost of the planes. just the cost of his seat. is there any evidence that effort might have made trump look weak? i haven t seen any evidence suggesting that and my sense here very much is that the planes were basically just an excuse for the president to fire secretary price. my understanding is that there was little love lost between price and president trump. these are two very different men. price is southern, very conservative and he s very much in the paul ryan mold when it comes to how public figures present themselves and how they perform their work. meanwhile, donald trump, of course, dispositionally, extremely at odds with that. my sense is that their relationship was never a particularly warm one and then when you couple that with the fact that price became the face of this huge failure to appeal the affordable care act, it