loves a good, old-fashioned presidential pardon. but now that his affinity for circumventing the rule of law is colliding with his key campaign promise, they re vowing to do something. trump assured aides woe pardon them of any legal wrongdoing in the course of fast-tracking the border wall have red lights flashing in congress. the post quotes david cicilline, member of the democratic leadership in the house judiciary committee, as saying, quote, sadly, this is just one more instance of a president who undermines the rule of law and behaves as if he s kaa king and not governed the laws of this country. he s not a king. he s accountable. and i think it adds to the ongoing proceeding before the judiciary committee as we consider to recommend articles of impeachment against the president. trump denied he made any assurances but voices from inside the administration are undermining that claim. from the article, quote, a white house official spoke anonymously
bidding every day, is there anything left to sacrifice? how is any human being that can walk on two legs and reads the basic english language, walks in and says donald trump will pardon me if i do something illegal or wrong? how is paul manafort doing these days? how is michael cohen doing? trump is a utterly faceless person. and i was heartened to see democrats add this to their impeachment proceedings. what poext proceedings? it hasn t happened. to put together maybe a file to think about it. that is literally hypothetically all they have done. and it s interesting because we had more news this week, up to 135, 138 democrats who say they want to do it, polling is in their favor. top four democratic nominees are leading trump by eight to ten digits. the political consequence argument, which is what nancy pelosi and insiders have been using for months and months is no longer the case so why aren t
history will judge mueller will judge comey as, yes, having a big melt but in some ways being responsible for a little bit of transparency and accountability in the trump administration. ashley parker, i asked you before about how having this sort of doj fight on his hands seemed to benefit trump and his supporters. it certainly helped with programming at another news network during primetime hours. i wonder what the opposite of that looks like. does trump, we know he asked don mcgahn look into how he would process jim comey and hillary clinton, mcghan served as sort of a guardrail. what is the war on justice 2.0 now that he s got an ally like bill barr there? now that we have some of these investigations winding up, does trump take his toys and go home, lit jim comey live his life? doesn t seem very trumpian. sure, it doesn t. that s a great question. we don t exactly know and there is a big difference between trump s rhetoric and his tweets
politically tainted by trump. you know since i have you and i just remembered as you re sitting there, it is your byline on the story about andy mccabe opening the investigation into whether or not donald trump is actually a russian agent around comey s firing. what is it you think went through his mind when he saw donald trump at the g7 last week behind closed doors making the case and really skewing and repeating putin propaganda about getting russia back into the g8? seems like the kind of concerns law enforcement had in the first place. probably retriggered his ptsd from those days. but we will have to see where this goes. i want to make a point on comey s legacy. we ve had two big investigations. one, the handling of the hillary clinton email investigation, and now this investigation on his handling of the memos. we ve got a third one coming up on the carter page five that he
say, don t worry, i got your back. that s what he s doing right now. it s ridiculous. i was never into trump s political promises. they weren t for me. i didn t like them. i didn t vote for him. but if you were into those things, he sucks at giving them to you. yes. and going back to the promise he s making to his internal staff, michael cohen, michael cohen, michael cohen, right? why would you ever believe this man? he s on the hvac team in prison now. yeah! think twice. he s making license plates. why would anyone in donald trump s orbit or universe believe he s going to have your back? that s the first thing. second thing is this, i really believe a lot of his supporters they ultimately don t care. as much as donald trump lied, has shown to be lying over and over again, his base of support, that 32% to 35% of americans who absolutely love him, they love donald trump symbolically and anything he doesn t accomplish