Indecisive. Feckless. Feckless. On the left, sally kohn, on the right, Newt Gingrich. In the crossfire, senator ben cardin, a democrat and lindsey graham, a South Carolina republican. Is the president being undermined by republicans or by his own decisions . Tonight on crossfire. Welcome to crossfire, im sally kohn on the left. Im Newt Gingrich on the right. In the crossfire tonight, two key u. S. Senators in the ukraine debate. More breaking news out of russia today. Vladimir putin spent his day staging large scale war games near the Ukrainian Border and had the russian navy sink a ship to block in the ukrainians. How did President Obama spend his day . Imposing symbolic sanctions that
will prevent russian thugs and oligarchs from vacationing at disney world. He could get rid of the symbolic liberalism and boost Defense Spending. That might start to convince put than the u. S. Is serious. Look, newt, the president has been taking serious steps all day, but no step seems to be enough t
Reagan. The repeal and replace obamacare act. Inpenetrable, physical,tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall. We will cancel every illegal obama executive order. But though republicans control the white house and both chambers of commerce, they have failed to pass any significant piece of legislation. The Obamacare Repeal republicans promised for seven years was yanked from the house floor. And the Treasury Secretary has pushed the deadline for tax reform from the summer to the end of the year. The president s one big accomplishment, the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was largely delivered by Senate Leader mitch mcconnell. In a new nbc news wall street journal poll, confidence has eroded. Even on the attributes where he performed best. Hes down by seven points since february on being firm and decisive, down six on changing Business As Usual in washington,
thats what we have the white house for. And joining me now, President Trumps Chief Of Staff reince prieb
Nixon, if you want to learn about watergate, learn about what the country was like and what was going on in the country. And the way to start understanding that is to understand 68. Oh, and theres a little bit of collusion in the victory in the end that is worth its actually Richard Nixon used collusion with the foreign government, the south vietnamese in order to win in the end. And for the rest of the story, playing with fire is now available in bookstores and online. If you can bear the sound of my voice for hours on end, the audiobook is available too. Thats tonights last word. The 11th hour with broian will jams is next. 15 million for flynn to have a turkish president s rival sent back to turkey. Also two republican senators tonight withdrawing their support for roy moore as the alabama candidate calls the Sexual Misconduct claims against him completely false. Were live in vietnam as President Trump is half a world away from the problems back home in washington. The 11th hour on
And later, my conversation with senator Kiersten Gillibrand. But first we are following a wave of breaking news. Rudy giuliani tells the New York Times and nbc news Robert Mueller will seek to conclude his investigation into collusion with russia by September 1st. So far we have not heard anything from the Special Counsel ourselves. Robert costa from the Washington Post reports an important asterisk. That deadline might hold true if the president sits for an interview. At the same time, President Trump ordering the Justice Department to investigate an if in Fib Informant who was used in the early stages of the russia probe. The president tweeting, quote, i here by demand and will do so officially tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes. As for the president using the power of his office to intervene in an ongoing Justice Department
investigation, maybe we shouldnt be too surprised.
The New York Times reports this afternoon, was approved by Trump Appointee Rod Rosenstein. Quote, in addition to mr. Rosenstein, all of the top Law Enforcement officials involved in the raid are republicans. The times also offering more details this afternoon about what the fbi was looking for in that raid. Quote, the search arent carried out by The Public Corruption Unit of the manhattan federal Attorneys Office seeks information about Karen Mcdougal an ex Playboy Model. She was paid 150,000 by American Media inc. , the enquirers parent company, whose Chief Executive is a friend of mr. Trumps. Our friend joyce vance described the raid as a, quote, bomb, on trumps front porch. Been in agreement that if the president wanted to Fire Bob Mueller, if he wanted to change course here, then he had to essentially get somebody to do it for him. That somebody would have had to have been Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general and for all intents and purposes, the Acting Attorney General in t