docket later this month. michael beschloss, leave it there. thanks. as they say in humor, there s truth. which is what makes last night s roast of president trump by house speaker paul ryan all the more interesting, given this conversation. enough with the applause. all right? you sound like the cabinet when donald trump walks in the room. [ laughter ] i know last year that donald trump offended some people. i know his comments according to critics went too far. some said it was unbecoming of a public figure and that his comments were offensive. well thank god he s learned his lesson. [ laughter ] every morning i wake up in my office and i scroll twitter to see which tweets i ll have to pretend i did not see later on. and when you read the papers tomorrow everyone will report this differently. breitbart s leading with, ryan slams the president amongst liberal elet s.
welcome back. steve bannon is on a crusade against the republican establishment. you may have heard about it s declaring war on incumbent republicans and any senator who backs mitch mcconnell as majority leader, he s against them. it s an open revolt and it should be. these people hold you in total contempt. their contempt for president trump, their disrespect for president trump, their back biting, back stabbing, bickering. they have sewn the whirlwind. sewnwind and they re going to reap they when wind. and president trump first backed bannon s war on gop leaders shucked it, standing shoulder to shoulder with mitch mcconnell and saying he may try
primaries and bush-ism and obama and obama-ism in the general. so we all, i think, know president trump pretty well. look at, criticizing me. of course. they created these problems that i m left with. that s how he probably is taking this. and will probably say if he ever has to, where this is a badge of pride, shows i m draining the swamp. shows that his 37% will say, right on. a sign he s doing what he was elected to do. all true. so immediately i don t think we re going to see a drop in his poll ratings next week because barack obama and george w. bush criticized him think ways, but looking ahead a couple of years, it is likely, if donald trump runs as a republican in 2020, which i think is still an open question, it s not impossible he might choose to go independent if he wants to run for re-election. this begins to late the predicate for a john kasich or someone like that to run against
i can t believe nobody s taking the high ground. it s extraordinary. seems particularly from the white house this insistence their view of this were correct and that seems to be the overall goal here as opposed to remembering that this is about a gold star family. not just one. four gold star families. i want to put it up that photo again. this is a pregnant widow. yes. on that casket, and we turned her into a political football. it was the most heartbreaking thing. that s honestly, chuck, that video of her grieving over her husband s casket would have been the turning point of this whole conversation and the fact it wasn t is extraordinary. andrew, you brought up the point. i do believe that president trump and the congresswoman truly believe what they believe in this. and that s what s scary. they are asoviet unisuming the about the other, automatically. seems proving to me that trump tried. just not good at that kind of see.
establishment, and put in populists and nationalists. for president trump, the goal, govern the next three or seven years, and i suspect that one of the topics at lunch monday between senator mcconnell and president trump was, senator mcconnell explaining, you may not like us. you might not regret if any of us individually lose re-election, but we are what s between you and impeachment. and that losing the majority in the house means handing democrats subpoena power and we re impeachment you know, that wow. you think that the best strategy for mitch mcconnell and paul ryan right now, to keep trump on the sidelines. don t let him get involved play the i card. guys, we re what s standing between you and getting ousted? the thing is that make as dangerous 2018 message? beats the alternative. the thing is president trump i think is of limited value with