While 30 say it has given them a less favorable one. 61 said it had no impact. And finally, this is the most troubling number 46 said they feel that President Trump fired comey to slow down the russia investigation. And 38 buy the original explanation from the white house, that it was done over legitimate concerns over how comey handled the Hillary Clinton email issue. And theres a report that a frustrated President Trump is considering firing many of his Top White House aides. It adds up to a week, at best, the administration has a communications problem. Or at worst, it is facing accusations of obstruction of justice. I was going to fire comey. Donald trump contradicted his white house aides and his Vice President , adding to questions as to why the president chose to fire fbi director james comey when he did. No one from the white house. That was a d. O. J. Decision. He took the recommendation
but the president needs to back off and let the investigation go forward. We need to call
all, if they can get the tax bill through the senate, that is a huge victory and erases a lot of problems. second, i think they are going to get between 100 and 150 appointees approved between now and christmas. that will move judgeships, ambassadors, other jobs pretty fast pace up until they leave on christmas eve. so i think it will be a different appearance. sean: will they get this bill done? do you think the senate is going to get this tax bill done? yes. i think they will. sean: why? i think because unlike the whole healthcare fight, this is a really straightforward issue. do you want the american people to have more money or do you want the government to have more money? there aren t many republicans in the end who are going to come down fort government having more money. and i think rand paul today
bill through the senate, that is a huge victory and erases a lot of problems. second, i think they are going to get between 100 and 150 appointees approved between now and christmas. that will move judgeships, ambassadors, other jobs at a pretty fast pace up until they leave on christmas eve. so i think it will be a different appearance. sean: will they get this bill done? do you think the senate is going to get this tax bill done? yes. i think they will. sean: why? i think because unlike the whole healthcare fight, this is a really straightforward issue. do you want the american people to have more money or do you want the government to have more money? there aren t many republicans in the end who are going to come down for the government having more money. and i think rand paul today
nfl to three cafeteria workers at the stadium who lost their homes as a result of harvey. really good american. shannon: he had been someone who benefited from work done who has gone out and from florida state. it s all acc love. he had been someone who would go out and donate homes to single mothers because of what he had grown up with and how tough his mom was and to see that paying forward to now these three workers there is beautiful. as we continue to monitor that situation in puerto rico, we ll have a lot more on healthcare fight as well with kentucky senator rand paul. he was a hard no on the last version of obamacare repeal. he voted yes on other ones. would he back the president working with democrats on a different plan? we ll ask him. he is coming up at the top of the hour. bill: that republican tax plan is public. can they deliver the relief they re promising? we ll talk to one of the architect in a moment. president trump: our country
another reince priebus ally resigned. all eyes are on reince priebus. he is on that trip today. he has been a big part of the healthcare fight. so there s no doubt the political intrigue will continue to deepen. but no sign at this hour that we are seeing any departures in the imminent future. and as if they needed concentrating of the mind, now you ve got the renewed threat from north korea. we don t know yet whether this was a long range or short range missile. that analysis is yet to come. but the fact that north korea is still flexing its muscles, and that we reported this week that the timeframe for them to achieve the weaponization of a long range missile that can hit the u.s. mainland has been shortened by two years, by next year according to all of my sources. they could be ready with a