we need to make sure the politics doesn t take over the president s time. it s a balancing act between politics and government. anything to read into on the timing? making the announcement as he is leaving for the army and navy game on a saturday. you ve already had the mueller document dump on friday and then the staff shakeup and announcements on friday morning. the mueller document dump friday afternoon. then saturday he says this. i think this is the timing cannot be better. i hearken back to my time at the white house. i was told that those people who want to stay need to give us a commitment now. once past january we gear up for the reelected in urine for the long haul or not. service to the president and the executive capacity like kelly is an opportunity, not a career.
from the united states above and beyond his salary, or when he sevens a payment from another state, those are both violations of the domestic emoluments clause. what constitutes a payment to him, if he is currently not running the trump organization? well, if he receives any gain profit or advantage from the payment, that s a violation of the emoluments clause. look, what the clauses were designed to do was to show th that to make clear that the president must put the interest of all other americans above his own. we ought to be able to know when the president is governing and acting in his executive capacity, that he s not thinking about his own financial interest, that he s not thinking about himself. and that s why these payments are barred, the framers didn t want him to be under the
isn t it? it is. to that point, which is a different point, i would say it s a real problem because, again, i ve been in executive capacity. your hands, at the end of the day, are going to be driven by what the legislature does or does not do. and you better find a way to work with them because at the end of the day they can, again, stymie your efforts or move forward. it is a real problem from the standpoint of him advancing his legislative agenda. what s, again, allegedly going on between the president and mitch mcconnell. it s a real problem for so many republicans, especially in the senate that are going to have to pick, do they stand with the majority leader mitch mcconnell, do they stand with the president. these two men apparently not even talking to each other. i guess the bottom line question, we have to take a quick break, but you can give me a quick answer, congressman. are you proud of where the republican party is right now?
if that had been the case, she would ve given that information to the investigative bodies that would ve been in charge of dealing with it, but that s not what tonight seems to have done. at the very least, she has a lot of questions to answer. it will be interesting to see whether she claims executive privilege which would indicate the president had some discussion with her or someone in their executive capacity. bret: we have reporting that there is some involved, intelligence that does not deal with russia and deals with extraneous things that had nothing to do with what we are talking about currently, day today washington bread what s your take on the susan rice explanation today with msnbc? heart explanation was at odds with her explanation to pbs a while back where she said she didn t know anything about it. she is heaven sent to republicans because this is going to be investigated and if there was political reasons for her request for unmasking or if she leaked them, of cour
united states. if that had been the case, she would ve given that information to the investigative bodies that would ve been in charge of dealing with it, but that s not what tonight seems to have done. at the very least, she has a lot of questions to answer. it will be interesting to see whether she claims executive privilege which would indicate the president had some discussion with her or someone in their executive capacity. bret: we have reporting that there is some involved, intelligence that does not deal with russia and deals with extraneous things that had nothing to do with what we are talking about currently, day today washington bread what s your take on the susan rice explanation today with msnbc? heart explanation was at odds with her explanation to pbs a while back where she said she didn t know anything about it. she is heaven sent to republicans because this is going to be investigated and if there was political reasons for her request for unmasking or if she leake