it s a very, very reckless strategy, dangerous strategy. well, the guy who rides the tiger ends up in his mouth. we ll see. joyce, michael and david. it s one of the rare times donald trump has spoeng the truth. he told lesley stahl that the reason he bashes the press is so when they write negative stories about him, no one will believe them. he s tearing down this country s institutions our system of government, our law enforcement and our free press to save his skin. plus the risky business of speaking for donald trump as mark lieberman reports the more the white house communications team defends trump, the more its people damage their own credibility. they should. and woman power. here s good news. will 2018 be is the year that women candidates and women vote ares make the difference? after last night, that s looking more and more like a prospect. let me finish tonight with trump watch. until today, i didn t know how far he would go. this is hardball where the action is. say car
a narrative about this informant that at least our reporting doesn t back up. this informant was not someone inside the campaign. it was someone that talked to two of these campaign officials who had contacts with russians to find out whether they were, you know, these conversations had happened to corroborate them. as someone pointed out to me, it would have been more aggressive for the fbi to go and knock on the doors of some of these folks with badges and sit them down for interviews and something that could come out publicly and could have damaged the campaign at the time. but the fbi took the more sort of quiet more secretive route and ran this informant up against these folks. joyce, tell me about this because when criminals are or rather suspected criminals defendants go into a trial, they ll come up with anything to get the jury to think of some other possibility to get reasonable doubt. i understand that. this is the president of the united states. his way of creating reason
is already out there declaring that bad things happened. let s watch. when they look at the documents, i think people are going to see a lot of bad things happened. i hope it s not so. because if it is, there s never been anything like it in the history of our country. this was a terrible situation. what we re doing is we re cleaning everything up. it s so important. what i m doing is a service to this country. everybody wants to solve, but a lot of bad things have happened. we now call it spy gate. you re calling it spy gate. a lot of bad things have happened. i want them all to get together. they ll sit in a room. hopefully they ll be able to work it out among themselves. joining me now are three contributors, joyce vance a former federal prosecutor, michael schmidt is a reporter for the new york times and david ignatius a columnist with the washington post. when i watched that today, i have to tell you all today, i reminded myself of joseph welsh