it may be they re terrified the base is sufficient to trump. do you agree with paul waldman? this is the greatest intelligence coup. the russians have compromised an american president thoroughly, completely and evidently and they have thoroughly compromised the republican party and the congress that should be a constitutional check and balance on him, a co-equal branch of government. the russians didn t have to go and set something up to lure congress in. they just knew once trump was in, that his celebrity and his cult would be the enforcers for him. i think paul is right, the president is utterly compromise and the congress look, i don t think congress is the majority of them, maybe dana or others are swinging around with russians. the ones i speak to all the time, including those that go
it seem like trump said, whatever they re going to take to the bank, when they need to say, hey, the u.s. president gave us permission to do this, they re absolutely free to doctor that tape if they need to. whatever trump actually said is probably bad enough, but whatever they want to make him say, they can retro actively do. and there s no american rebuttal to it because there were no americans in that room other than trump and the translator to keep him honest. hopefully the translator will testify before congress. speaking of recordings, michael cohen, just when we thought we had our show planned this weekend, michael cohen recorded trump, something trump was surprised about. which i m surprised he would be surprised. what does that story then do to this overall narrative? we already have well, what does that story do to this narrative? i have a contrary take to this story. it s definitely of interest that the president s personal lawyer was at least i don t know if he was
protections. we haven t seen any of that. that s something that all it takes is the word from mitch mcconnell or paul ryan to send bills like that to the floor, that could pass with an overwhelming veto-proof majority if they want to do that, as well as protect the mueller investigation. i think what s protecting the president right now and his ability to despite the fact republicans are sometimes uncomfortable with what he does and says, like the hell sink h summit, are polls. republicans know overwhelmingly are on his side and that means mcconnell, paul ryan and other republican leaders in congress are not going to act in ways that are against him. they re not going to put in place policies that he doesn t want, such as a bill to protect the mueller investigation or to boost election protections. yeah, they passed a condemnation. the senate passed a condemnation of his behavior in helsinki or of this proposal that vladimir putin had to hand over americans and also have
that the europeans have to lobby congress for some new additional controls which presumably won t break the deal but will add more toughness. where is that going? is this deal going to survive this latest insistence on additional measures? david, i think that s not going to go anywhere. the europeans won t agree to renegotiate the deal as you know. britain, france, and germany have said that clearly, they won t lobby congress. i was on the hill last week, i don t think congress is going to take the responsibility to do it so i actually think president trump may have to blink again the next time when a certification decision comes to his desk because there s no other alternative for the united states but to stay with this deal and at the same time and david, you ve reported on this here s the problem for the united states. iran is testing ballistic missiles in violation of the u.n. security council resolutions and iran s a major supporter of terrorism. so if president trump does h
meanwhile, there s all these important issues going on in the country and around the world that we re not addressing because we re so focused on this crazy tweet. skpand that s the large issu right there, congresswoman, you have just hit it on the head. what are you in congress, or we in the media, supposed to do when a president or this president makes a false accusation like this? what now? do we just walk away from these wiretapping accusations, though he accused the former president of a felony. is that that s it? we just take that in stride and move on now? i think spending more time on it gives him, frankly, more credibility over something that is false from its very essence. and you re absolutely right, it is outrageous that president trump would charge former president obama with committing a felony. so the only way to deal with someone who is unwilling to deal with reality, i think, is to