it s been 220 days since election night. but the president is trying to use his 2016 election foe to get out from under the scandal that has plagued his presidency thus far. president trump wrote on twitter just today, why is it that hillary clinton s family and dems dealing with russians are not looked at but my non-dealings are. and crooked h destroyed phones with a hammer bleached e-mails and had her husband meet with the attorney general days before she was cleared and they talk about obstruction? joining our conversation, reitzers correspond end jeff mason. we welcome him to the broadcast. pulitzer prize winning columnist for the washington post, eugene robinson and washington columnist for the boston globe, indira. jeff i ll begin with you. relitigating what happened 220
he not gotten himself in trouble. it is not a witch hunt. it is a self-inflicted wound where the witch says hello i am a witch, hunt me. that s different. jeff, in addition to skytry, we also need to know mathematics. chris matthews says he takes the bottom number in the polls and defines it as the current size of the trump base which is overall the samplesides size for the outflow of tweets. can you concur it s migrating between 36, 38, something like that? i would definitely say the tweets are aimed very much at that base. i think chris is certainly right if that s what he said. and i think that president trump and many of his closest advisors
government to the private sector back to government with great ease but hiring these experts in their field. how do you limit the scope of your investigation? how do you diffy it up. i think you have to take it in different pieces. there is the piece during the campaign about the coordination with the russians and if that in fact occurred and looking at the campaign officials there. there is the question of what the russians did, the ways in which they did it, what their process is. that could be broader ranging the ways russia saw influence. and then the last piece is obstruction, trump s conversations with officials to try to get them to shut down parts of this. your colleague and mine, micolle wallace speaks with great affection about how tough you were in the bush white house and how many receipts she had to bring to you to prove every purchase and prove she hadn t accepted a cup of coffee from anyone. if you were appointed, the off chance that you were appointed
can decide the fate of basketball mueller. he said listen, it falls on me as to whether he stays. one has to wonder how much if any pressure he is feeling from the administration right now and why out of all nights to issue the statement tonight. thanks to our lead-off panel, thanks to, along with birthday wishes to beiana goal riga, michael crowley and vivian salmano. thank you. come up, the donald trump a nightmare client? are his troubles of his own making? is he making new troubles every day on twitter? when the 11th hour continues. tech: when you schedule with safelite autoglass, you get time for more life. this family wanted to keep the game going. son: hey mom, one more game? tech: with safelite, you get a text when we re on our way. you can see exactly when we ll arrive. mom: sure. bring it! tech: i m micah with safelite. mom: thanks for coming, it s right over here. tech: giving you a few more minutes for what matters most.
it goes on to borrow a phrase from nixon asserting that trump s followers are the silent majority. we also have breaking news tonight. let s first bring in tonight s starting panel. news and finance writer at yahoo news, briana goal riga. and vivian salaamo. welcome to you all. and i hold in my hand the breaking news. this is a press release that came out in the last hour from the justice department. social media, where attention spans go to die is, losing its collective head. they are standing on a ledge with this. this is the associate attorney general rod rosenstein, americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous officials particularly when they do not identify the country let alone the branch or