house, saying he didn t think there was collusion from two years of reporting that he had done. it does seem to me that they re getting manafort s cooperation but it s probably not about collusion with russia. it s about some other crime surrounding trump. so that should be interesting and it will be interesting to see the truch white house s reaction as mueller s probe proceeds. as the white house says, it has nothing to do with the president. again, there s nothing in the official record that implies it has to do with the president. we should be careful about that. the president says he hires the best people. we have his former campaign chairman, deputy chairman, national security adviser all pleading guilty to crimes. the president says this is the reason his poll numbers are down, tweeting this out last night. while my or our poll numbers are good, they re not, but with the economy being the best ever if it weren t for the rigged
2016 campaign but he could not be more wrong when he labels the mueller investigation as a witch hunt. the fourth aide to plead guilty. he had russian ties when he joined the campaign. if anyone on team trump was aware of the russian election interference, manafort would likely know. the platform language on russia was softened and at the infamous trump tower meeting arranged by donald trump jr. after promised by russians to deliver dirt on hillary clinton. the jig is up. this nonsense that there s nothing to see here or this is a witch hunt, now the trump team is 0 for mueller. manafort talking to the special counsel. this is significant. his plea deal requires cooperation with other justice department investigations, including one in new york that already has the cooperation of the president s long-time fixer, michael cohen, and the trump s
russian witch hunt they would be 25 points higher. bob mueller and the 17 apg angr democrats are using this phony issue to hurt us in the midterms. no collusion. he doesn t talk publicly. the president s attacks are having a big effect on bob mueller, you see it there. manafort conviction, plea deal. not that mueller cares about this. but it does matter in the court of public opinion, his numbers are on the rise. i don t think it s proving to be that successful, this strategy. we don t know and won t know until the midterms and probably the re-election. their idea was to attack, attack, attack, attack. and mueller said nothing. and i was always saying on the show, let see what happens when we start seeing things out of mueller. what we saw happen was those numbers start to change. there was an interesting poll in the past couple of weeks from
sessions. he is not going to fire rosen ste rosenstein or mueller. cnn reported the president openly fumed to lawyers that he should fire sessions. if he fired sessions because he wants to end the russian investigation could that be viewed as obstruction of justice? it could be. it depends on what he says and what his real motives are. don, one of the things he has to think about is how does he replace the attorney general? that is a position that has to be confirmed by the senate. that during the nixon years when nixon fired his attorney general he put elliot richardson right at the height of watergate. richardson had to promise to appoint a special prosecutor. that is when things started to go amiss for him. the senate while it is a
in somebody if he doesn t feel that way. he doesn t want upheaval. we need to understand, when we look at candidates or senators like lindsey graham and others, some are going to have republican primaries coming up in 2020. in a state like south carolina, where the president is going to have a lot of loyal support among the republican base, it could be that lindsey graham is making sure he is on the right side of the republican primary electorate. how do you do that? making sure you send signals you are supportive of where the president is, as this mueller investigation proceeds. if this thing drips into next year, you are then in a new election cycle. all of a sudden, this is an issue in a republican primary where they say to lindsey graham voters, hey, are you with the president or mueller. that is pathetic. the week after john mccain pass, we have lindsey graham, of all people, saying basically, i m