information, he would show up anyway. that s probably right. what would nixon have been able to do? it s not clear he would have been able to do anything. there is a difference. began got that memo. he literally got the memo. he is torn. from the office of legal counsel. under the control of william barr. doesn t that tell you something? hold on. there is an important point here. i don t want to be an a poll gist. in the 15-page letter, t partie many administrations serving a similar type of immunity to preclude congress from talking to senior officials in the administration. what mcgahn has to do is abide by the law. what congress has to do is challenge that blanket assertion. it has to be adjudicate and mcgahn won t be torn. how long that will take? that s the good question.
of line, given his role as the former fbi director, in the room for the important conversations, holding forth on something by his own estimation, he has no idea if it s true, highly salacious, equally, if not more posz zable, it is a disinformation tactic from russia rather than a thing that happened and here we are, as you say, no, the entire book is not out for the general public to read at this hour. this is what he s leading with in these television interviews. sure. i don t mean to be an apoll gist for comey. we will read the book. we have seen personal shots he takes at the president. many people find it very surprising. at the end of the day, i suppose we ll have the read the book in its entirety and see if he lowered himself to the level of the president or raise the discourse by talking about leadership lessons. jeremy?
when it suits the politics, the piety is great. and when it doesn t, the piety is easily excused. that s hypocrisy. that goes on both sides. let s talk about this side. they have made this their currency. this is why they are better than i am. their faith comes first. where is it now? i disagree. the piety, look at the me too movement. where were they when bill clinton was doing this. let s just be honest about all of this. you re right. the politics seem to trump everything these days. unfortunately that is the case. as you have seen me on this network, i have not been any a poll gist for donald trump s actions when they go out of bounds. you re not going out of your way to talk about these affairs the way you did with bill clinton. well, i didn t talk about bill clinton s affairs than i did bill clinton. his impeachment was not about
look, there is no question it s all complicated. american politics always boils down to what s simple. that s why foreign policy doesn t loom that large in american elections. it becomes more domestic. people in the election said, yeah, we look kind of weak. wasn t obama too much of an a poll gist. and trump was certainly trumpeting that message. how does all of these situations that are emerging, how do they not favor to a president who said i m going to be strong and things will happen. he s talking tough and things are happening. well, again, i think you re right. certain people did perceive obama was too weak. when he didn t act on the red line in syria, a lot of people in this country and around the line said that s. but that was an untruth. he ought to have been criticized for what he didn t do on that occasion. again, any time the president tweets or speaks, it s the use
watch it. i don t think the democrats should chase the president down monument row. i think they should talk about charlottesville and honor the memory of the woman that was opposing nazis and focus on the fact that the president seems to be an apoll gist for those guys. paul, i disagree forcefully as possible that he s an apoll gist for the nazi parties. he said there were some nice guys. listen, paul, i don t know what he was referring to in that, full-throated, full-throated rebuke of the nazi party. nazis, listen, the president has jewish grandchildren, all right. do you think, do you really think the guy that wants to embrace the people that to want wipe his grandkids out? if that s your argument, he s on firm ground with a lot of americans. he s on firm ground with white evangelicals and republicans because he does tap into the sense among many white americans that their culture is under siege, they feel that there s a sense of loss. i think that s what he s tapping into.