Im for keeping them up. And what to make of the president s opioid announcement. If we can teach young people and people generally not to start, its really, really easy not to take them. When all in starts now. Good evening from new york. Im joy reid in for chris hayes. Tonight amid signs that Robert Muellers investigation could be closing in, the white house is scrambling to discredit the messenger with a big assist from his partners on fox news. Theres no way the American People can trust Robert Mueller to investigate anything russian related. What really stinks here is mueller, rosenstein, Andrew Wiesman and james comey appear to have covered it all up, the uranium one deal. We have to have mueller fired. Yes, Robert Mueller, i hope youre watching. Oh Robert Mueller, are you awake tonight . Robert mueller is now investigating anything involved with russia, how is that possible . To be fair and impartial, its impossible because of his past role in this. He should resign immediately t
senate leadership fund which is mitch mcconnell s organization. they are trying to make bannon toxic personally. they re sort of acknowledging that he is a famous figure with more clout than frankly most of them when it comes to the republican base in large part because of conservative media. so they re trying to make him toxic with the moderate voters who still can decide republican primaries in some states. but that s it. within the senate there s not much of that going on. there are not people jeff flake did not make his announcement and then go down to campaign for a candidate of his liking in alabama. there s a bit of carping and then wishful thinking as you saw in the clips. tim miller who i believe used to work for mitch mcconnell tweeted out today. he s a former spokesperson for jeb bush bus. he says there s a war for the future of the gop. i m amused that in the media you keep hearing there s a great war dave is right. if there s a war, it s a
who still can decide republican primaries in some states. but that s it. within the senate there s not much of that going on. there are not people jeff flake did not make his announcement and then go down to campaign for a candidate of his liking in alabama. there s a bit of carping and then wishful thinking as you saw in the clips. tim miller who i believe used to work for mitch mcconnell tweeted out today. he s a former spokesperson for jeb bush. he says there s a war for the future of the gop. i m amused that in the media you keep hearing there s a great war dave is right. if there s a war, it s a rhetorical war against steve bannon and utter obedience to donald trump. if you look in terms of who has the president s ear, the ear of the most powerful man on the face of the planet, people who align themselves more with folks like mitch mcconnell, so-called establishment figures, are in open war with the president and having public feuds back and forth all the time.
steve bannon, even though he no longer works within trump s west wing still speaks to the president on the phone fairly regularly to give him advice and counsel. my sources in the white house in and outside of the white house tell me that in the past two or three weeks the frequency of the calls between steve bannon and president donald trump has actually increased. so if we re looking at which side is winning and which side is losing, at least for now and this could change, we ll see how the 2018 race is torn out, but it appears that steve bannon s side is asen dant and even people both in and out of congress are starting to take note. dave, it strikes me that rather than this being a war or a real purge, what you really basically have is steve bannon issuing a blanket threat. you will either be obedient in public to donald trump, or we ll threaten you to primaries. he doesn t have to win any for that threat to have salient. he s already won one although bannon did kind of jump to
i have disagreements within my own family. doesn t mean i care for them any less or so that s i support the nominee of my party. there you go. no matter how outrageous a republican might be, how bigoted or ignorant, as long as they can win and if they vote with the party, if they let trump build his wall, get extravagant tax cuts to the rich and take away health care from those who aren t rich, they re family. david weigel of the washington post recently wrote about mcconnell allies, declaring war on steve bannon. it was written that establishment republicans agree that steve bannon is kicking our bleep. dave, i will start with you. i want to play paul ryan and marco rubio, the latter having been very critical of donald trump during the campaign right before he said he would be honored to help him win election. this is the two of them today doing a briefing. you know what the american