explode the world economic order. do the leaders of the republican party intend to go this far? do they dare to sabotage the american economy and much of the world economy in order to defund a program, the affordable care act that is the law of the land? will they go to this drastic extreme to intimidate the u.s. congress or the president or both? and if so, is this the extreme case where ideological zealotry trumps even the most preliminarial loyalty to the common national interests where anything goes, where the ends justify whatever means there are to be had no matter how menaces to the country or the world. john feehery is a republican strategist, alex wagner the host of now weekdays at noon eastern. alex, a number of news sources out tonight. one of them is the national review, a conservative organization, and the washington examiner which is a bit to the right of that with new stories saying the people on the republican right are planning to step back from a governmen
enforcement officials. then he fired comey who was overseeing the fbi s investigation into trump s campaign. now, in an apparent attempt to the defend his actions, the president says he hasn t obstructed justice he s just been fighting back. one more quick one p do you think robert mueller will be fair to you in this investigationings? we re going to find out. here s what they ll say and serve says. no collusion. there s no collusion. now they re saying oh, well, did he fight back? did he fight back? you say collusion. you fight back, oh, it s obstruction. nice try. through that sleight of hand, the president suggests that he just stood his ground, not as he s being investigated for abusing his powers as president. to repeat, donald trump is complaining the rights of an average every day citizen to him or herself with the power he has at his disposal, powers he may have exercised to get the russian probe off his back. by saying he s fighting back, the president seem
That s politically impossible for him to do. he s in a difficult situation because he doesn t have that option. he ll be meeting with mueller if mueller wants to meet with him. he s running again for election. if you re running for election again, don t ever take the fifth. if you re never running again, it may be the smarter move. could be. there would be reasons trying to run out the clock. i think his advisers like roger stone are very worried about weather might do in that interview. part of it could be perjury. i also think part of it could be what you just said, that he didn t know when he admits certain facts that is what the crime is all about. so the most thing to prove in an obstruction case is intent because you have to prove corrupt intent. like you said, he kind of said. it s corrupt if you re trying to do it to protect yourself. you re great. thanks so much. betsy, robert, matt as always and ryan, thank you sir for joining youing us. how trump and his republican eye
His chief of staff says why don t you get vernon walters over at the cia, have him tell the fbi that this whole watergate break in was some sort of cia operation and lay off it. in other words, he was crushing the whole fbi investigation while using the fbi by using the cia as a cover. but this is what we re talking about here, getting the whole fbi off a case. i actually think this is why the interview with telephone is going to be so important because it actually doesn t really matter. you and i ccan talk about this mueller is going to come in and say did you do this? why did you do that? why did you do that? he s not going to say were you just fighting back or obstructing justice? he s not looking to trump for analysis. that s why the interview is so important. robert, it seems to me the question has come up and one of our producers figured out the
0 defaulting on the national debt. that would be their threat. they would cut off if they could. and therefore of course default. what do you think of this? bad to worse, chris. i don t know. if you thought that holding the debt ceiling hostage was a bad idea, if you thought a continuing resolution holding that hostage was a bad idea, you ll hate this one. republican elders said we cannot hold the country hostage, we can t hold the budget hostage on defunding obama care. it s never going to work. the debt ceiling is an even worse idea. as the national review reported, house leadership is engaged in political wink wink kabuki theater where they have to entertain every single harebrained idea that the right flank has to placate them. the question is, at the end of the day, can they bring them back from the brink. i think over the bush tax cuts and plan b, we saw john boehner completely fail there his grasp on the most rowdy members of his caucus seems to be loosening. you would think b