A report he is worried about son don jr. And that Infamous Trump tower meeting. Backlash continuing over the president s targeting of lebron james. The latest example of what appears to be trumps war against black athletes. Plus, im going to talk to a potentially Ground Breaking congressional candidate in michigan hoping to be the latest democrat to show that going left is the key to victory for democrats in 2018. All of that straight ahead. We begin with the russia investigation. A tale of father and son. Its been more than two years since the Trump Tower Meeting and it still a major source of concern on the part of the president and his legal team. To date president admitting any tweet that the meeting was in fact about getting dirt on hillary clinton. Thats a correct contradiction to the statement we now know was dictated by trump himself when the meeting first game public
claiming if you may recall that was actually about adoption. But its not the first time that president has trie
president was elected, the people who typically replaced republicans who are retiring, resign or are beaten in primaries are typically much trumpier. so i think that s what we re going to see. i challenged gonzalez about this. i said, i get what you re say, but by leaving aren t you just ensuring that your party stays trumpier or gets trumpier and he acknowledges that but he s not willing i think personally to keep sticking around for a party that is sort of clearly in president trump s thrall and is going to be. i quoted maggie haberman, this is how trump wins. right. it s a sort of long-term play where one by one the jeff flakes, the bob corkers, the anthony gonzalez s step down. and by the way, it s widely assumed in the capitol that he will not be the last of the 10 who voted to impeach president trump to step down. keep in mind, some of these folks will have very different
just thinking about the president here, in a lot of ways he has been preparing literally since before he started running for president. he has been creating doubt about the media, about every institution, the courts, about reality. reality. he s been creating all of this doubt. when it comes in handy, you need the institutions to call balls and strikes. he radicalized his base in the house and senate. there are no more bob corkers, jeff flakes. they write columns for the washington post . they don t sit in the chamber to vote on whether or not to be impeached. donald trump has been preparing for this moment for a very long time. i will put back some of the emails we have gone from the pentagon, michael duffey, this omb official, writing about the aid that was withheld. as somebody who covers this white house and knows the story so well, not a household name to many people who watch the show,
the world, and that s an important part of being president. but mitt romney, he s going to be a rookie member of the senate, and he ll have to play rookie baseball for a little while to see if he can earn the spurs to climb the leadership ladder once he gets into the senate. i happen to respect him. i think he ll do a good job, but i do wish he d kind of waited to write this article after he had seen what happens when you re on the receiving end of the president s tweets in the senate rather than just the day before he s going to get sworn in. andy, two things here. what do you think mitt romney s incentive was in releasing this op-ed now? and secondly, a lot of people out there are criticizing the jeff flakes of the world and the bob corkers of the world that have been critical of the president as they have been outgoing. and now we see someone like mitt romney who is critical of the president in an incoming way, who hasn t even been sworn in yet and setting a precedent saying this
establishment and the up starts and the populist, and the populist won and the democrats have not had that battle yet. and yeah, it will be interesting to hear from the resistance, bob corkers and jeff flakes of the world. they are on their way out. there will be an exciting time for political hacks like us. the dnc promised lots of debates, you know, and they are going to select the debates by random, the candidates. no favorites this time, and we are going to kick the tires and it s going to be a fun, fun two years. we start at midnight tonight, although really it started november 6th. great to have you both with us. happy new year. happy new year. there was a deadly lion attack in north carolina. how did the lion get out of its enclosure to kill a young intern? we have a live report for you