thing about a culture of corruption. this is after the mark foley scandal. i m just saying can be tough when there are head winds already for one party to have individual members of that party get in trouble with the law. completely. i don t think it is enough. i read the indictment. it looks pretty clear cut to me. i think he will have an uphill legal battle. they will start feeding the conspiracy theory that the only reason this happened is for that reason. i think that republicans will make a big mistake if they are only centered on we need to be there for trump. what we find with republican voters now is that they are saying don t like the persona, love the policy. i can hold my nose for some time because i like the policy that is being implemented. republicans need to go home and talk about economics, jobs, the
we never get to talk about. the advisers are all too afraid to say anything, even members of the family. they just can t do it. they get in the room with him. they talk to people who have really good advice, talk to you sometimes, and you give really good advice, same stuff you say on the air, better, maybe even more clear, then they get in the room and they can t do it. they just can t do it. the question, mark halperin. they just can t do it. what are republicans doing on capitol hill in the house? the senate is standing up. what is jason chaffetz doing? what s paul ryan doing? we re going to have jason on today and see what he says. paul ryan, what s paul ryan doing? they know this is not sane, rational behavior? what are they doing and at what point do they start speaking out? they were willing to as they were in the campaign compartmentalize, look, we want republican president to move republican agenda, we re going to avoid dealing with this other
jonathan, this is their story and they are sticking to it nonstop. yeah. and the staff has absorbed this. it s the donald trump message of this is the real story. this is what s happened. of course that s what started this scramble to justify, rationalize, find the evidence which has got devin nunes in all that trouble. mark halperin. you look at the history of this, at least a distraction for them and he brings on a lot of it himself, the most famous tweet about president obama. the most constant tweets, keeps it alive in the media. it does it does, jonathan said, it s so hard for this white house staff trying to learn how to do their jobs under the media and legal pressure of these investigations. again, we talked about this before, how well the guy is off mentally. any sane, rational person would know if i keep bringing attention to something, then i m
and all the above, it s quite the opposite. i also think it s time, and i know in the post goldwater era there s the unwritten rule in the psychiatric community that nobody diagnoses from afar, but i don t think he s a well guy period. when you start doing things, mark halperin, that are against your best interest. during the campaign he did all these horrible things, right? but you could say they are horrible things but there s going to be a segment of his base that will actually vote for him because he s talking about the birther stuff or he s talking about this or he s talking about that. the walls. the wall. in that respect he would do these things that were offensive to all of us but wouldn t say, this is actually like him hitting himself on the hand with hammer. what he is doing now is not in his self-interest. that s when you start saying wait a second, how well is he? if he s doing these things that
everybody talks about 2006 being about iraq, being about this. people don t remember. there were a lot of little scandals that happened right before the election. and one scandal not so small for a father and his son was mark foley scandal and how that was handled was sort of the tipping point. do you remember? there s a tipping point where people were like it wasn t so much about mark. it was more like, wait a second. these republicans, they reust protecting each other. yeah. so we re going to drive them out. very sad situation. and jobs. paul ryan. to your point, i was i keep hearing from people now. is he okay? yeah. is he okay? like dead serious, they look at me and say, is he okay? and i don t have a good answer. i have the answer. he s not. we all know that. we need to stop talking about