affair. if the analogy stands, you know, then americans don t have an appetite to impeach a president for having an affair. and that s the danger and the rick democrats run. the difference, of course, is at a minimum the obstruction which is quite pervasive even if not criminal and then the open question of, what is going on with the collusion investigation? and a debate, do you censure him, do impeachment? an opportunity for republicans to show a big of backbone and do this. was your sense why it s not moving through? i was going to ask steve this question. at this point in his presidency president trump s approval rating is extremely low. number one. two, a lot of economists expect that the economy is going to shift starting next year. if you look at equity, bond markets, et cetera. we think that s going to be a problem. i wonder if there could be a legitimate case once mueller s findings come out say next year.
this stuff with him. why don t we get him in there? democrats, never mass defections from democrats every plot point where they might have happened, defections looked up and saw clinton s approval rating at 68%, 70%. looked at midterm gaining seats. we cannot move on this guy. the one political difference i could see potentially emerging is republicans, they have a bloodbath, electorally this november. lose 40 seats, 45 seats, whatever will psychologically shake them to the core they will be in a situation politically, democrats were never at at any point in 98. looking at the president saying i m seeing evidence of a serious political liability here. then because it s a political question, who knows. steve, great to see you. thank you. steve kornacki. the book, pre-order it now. up next, the president calls off a meeting between the secreta secretary of state and north kore korean, but is this yet another distraction? a and what would happen to the
president including his own legal team who told him to delay a pardon for manafort, which, of course, is problematic in and of itself whankts do y itself. what do you make of that? watch paul manafort, the wink he gave his wife being taken away. the expectation, the president is going to pardon him. the president has the authority to do so but i m not certain that the ends justify the means here. politically speaking, though, i think a lot of republicans in the base look at the manafort trial and say this has nothing to do with collusion, number one. number two, look at this and say these things occurred several years ago. why all of a sudden are they bringing this up now? buying what the president is selling? absolutely. appears to be a political witch-hunt, the president s attorneys may say, don t do this because theoretically you may be obstructing justice, politically speaking, a significant number of republicans, yes, you should do this and we will back you if you do this
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to do with russian collusion. he s all but promised. look at his words and the verbiage used. pretty much dangled this in front of him. look what he said about cohen. looking for a good lawyer, don t call michael cohen, but when we get to paul manafort, this poor guy. such a victim. look how horribly they re treating him. i disagree a little. that he s a stand-up guy. exactly. this chapter of the trump presidency is clearly directed by martin scorsese, obviously. i disagree a little, because this is not a president who necessarily follows the advice of his counsel. right? he s demonstrated that a number of times. when you look at the defense, the trials they put on, didn t make much of a case there. kind of sat back. you saw manafort during the trial give rick gates, former partner, the stink eye the entire time. i m waiting on a pardon. i would put money on it. i ll buy you a drink back in d.c. if it doesn t happen. and what did we learn from the first trial, gentlemen, lookin