This was somebody there are people who were skeptical about donald trump from the very beginning. This was Somebody Playing Ball with donald trump and was a supporter and maybe even going to be his Vice President ial candidate. So the fact that hes saying these kinds of things shows that he gave him a fair hearing, was willing to give him a try, and its become pretty clear that this is a highly problematic president. Part of the thing that is worrying to me is were starting to see everything through the prism of heres another twitter scandal, heres another bit of the crazy. How crazy. Youre talking about somebody who has more access to information about threats to america than almost any human being on earth, Senator Corker, saying hes afraid of world war iii, to the paper of record for the country. That should be a full stop, all traffic comes to a halt moment. Because this is a cry for help for the country. And yet but it doesnt come until after donald trump personally insults him on
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Appoint him. If hes a superior officer, the senate has to confirm him. And hes not really being supervised closely by rosenstein. Hes basically given free rein. Hes indicting Russian Foreign agents. He has a specific mandate. Rosenstein reviews it. Weve seen that decisions have been made to parse out Different Things that mueller started looking at and then went to the Southern District so that, you know, theres been a judiciousness in terms of what he can do. I dont see why you think thats a clear question. Well, no. It is because in terms of the supervision, Rod Rosenstein basically does not effectively control the actions why not . Well, because you see that there has been no limits on rosensteins on muellers jurisdiction and authority. He is now going after manafort, which is has nothing to do with the russian investigation. But in the mandate, it says that things that arise from it. Sure. And it
and the proudly for your national anthem or be issues pep suspended without pie. why is trump doing this? so many protesting players, white and black have said this isn t about disrespecting the flag. he knows that. he doesn t seem to care. why? this works with the part of his base. how do we know? he said it. cowboys owner jeffrey jones gave sworn testimony that trump told him, quote, this is a very winning strong issue for me. tell everybody you can t win this one. this one lifts me. how does this lift anyone? it s okay if it divides people and stokes prejudices. that s winning? this is like a domestic foreim, targeting a minority. in this case, mostly black players. once again he is suggesting they
vice president mike pence and his wife had their own protest at the nfl game this weekend. they were back in indianapolis attending the colts and san francisco 49ers game on sunday. they decided to walk out and leave the stadium after some 49ers players knelt during the national anthem. sho shortly after, the vice president explained why on twitter writing, i left today s colts game because @potus will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, flag or national anthem. after that tweet, the president posted his thoughts on the matter, i asked vice president pence to leave stadium in any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. i am proud of him and second lady, karen. then this morning the president returned to twitter to share more shaugt thoughts writing by vice president pence is long planned. he s receiving great praise after leaving game after the players showed such disrespect to country. to complete the circle, the president is fund-raising for his re-electio
with these releases. the most popular thing donald trump has done since he s been president is work with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. but he s he s not drawn to that. he s actually drawn to this culture war stuff. he is obsessed, according to literally everyone i talk to, obsessed with the word that they use, with losing his base. losing his political base. he talks about it all the time. you have the reporting about, you know, in alabama when he talked about this, you had the reporting about him coming back on the plane that he felt this was that was the big success from that night in alabama. it went well, played well with the crowd. he spent the whole weekend at bedminster when he d talk to a couple people in the dining room at the club, he d say what do you think of this? most people told him they didn t think it was wonderful and said, no, no, no, my base loves it, my people love it. the polls seem to support his instinct. that s what his people cite, his advise