Investigation would soon be winding down. However, there are signs to the contrary. Axios is reporting that, quote, members of Robert Muellers team are reaching out to former Republican National Committee Staff who were familiar with the digital campaign. The goal is to determine if the joint effort was related to the activities of russian trolls and bots aimed at affecting the american electorate. Ty cobb said all of the interviews with the special team are over. However, former colleague said i would be shocked if he was done with the inner circle. All of these indictments, guilty pleas and interviews could be round one. Joining me is Jonathan Swan with acti axios. Thanks to all of you for joining. Barry, the resident former prosecutor here, let me start with you. You have this report from the Washington Post saying that if
point is that its a question that a lot of people close to the situation are asking themselves is why did mueller allow for this prosecutorial vulnerability . Bec
if people are saying that the economy is going well, jobs are improving, i think that is very helpful to the republicans. katherine, that s one of the mysteries of this presidency. oddities at least. if you look at the public s assessment of the economy, you d normally expect the president and his party to be faring better in polling. these are not normal times, right? there s the trump factor. trump is different from every other president. trump has been surrounded by scandal after scandal after scandal. by crazy tweets. by all sorts of other distractions that would maybe make the economy not the most salient factor in how people judge how well the country is doing and how well they assess the presidency. beth, something i picked up on talking to republicans, we talk about motivation, who s going to turn up and vote. we see the democratic base very motivated. republicans are telling me their folks are motivated by trump. if you don t have his name on the ballot, the party label
series to take my mind off of politics and lo and behold, last night i stumble upon donald trump in sex and the city sitting at a bar with samantha s date, he says i ll see you back at trump tower. he evidently threw that line in, he wasn t supposed to have a line at all, but he wanted to promote trump tower and so he did. he was in sex and the city. kick it away. along with other films. so i think in the same poll you cited earlier, it actually found that less than half of republicans expect trump to win re-election in 2020. also less than half of republicans think trump is honest. so there you go. only six people have served for multiple terms as house speaker without going consecutively. if dems retake the house, speaker pelosi could be the seventh one to do it. a little bit of history potentially. thank you to beth fuhey, katherine lapell, nick consori. ann, the executive producer of