for them to say we don t like the terms, we re pulling out, and the president has that constitutional ability to negotiate this. he does. well, exactly that, there s a door left open and bob mueller doesn t need my advice and he s got plenty of tough and experienced guys. but at the end of the day these are not 50/50 negotiations. donald trump is going to try to limit is subject matter of this debate only to obstruction, i m certain justice can t going to go along with that. he s going to limit it to certain questions. but if bob mueller doesn t like these terms, doesn t like the negotiations, he just subpoenas him to a grand jury. then come and do it on our temples withoterms without a lawyer totally open ended. so i doubt that trump gets this orchestrated the way he wants. so you think this news is something donald trump thinks is good, he s bragging he ll go toe to toe with mueller and you
reveal or discover that the special counsel with all of that power isn t? our job is to tell the american people how russia was able to pull this off, understand what the u.s. government response was so that we can prestlent from happening again. mueller can find all the crimes in the world but that doesn t fix vulnerabilities that we have in our election systems, our ability for the federal government to assist the states or duty to report laws that probably need to go into place that would require individuals if they re contacted by foreign nationals to report that to the fbi so there s a lot we can do from what we ve learned that bob mueller doesn t have the authority do and which he s not being asked to do. congressman, before i let grow, a two-parter for you. will the government be open come midnight tomorrow night? the second part of that, will it include some protection for d.r.e.a.m.ers? i hope yes to both. certainly keeping the government open while federal workers toi
theory, his theory of political chaos from the political theater to the legal theater. and what i mean by that is, bob mueller doesn t care about all the public relations noise and the political undermining that the president s attempting to engage in. this is a legal process. prosecutors and judges don t care about this kind of attack. what they care about is the facts. and that s clearly what bob mueller cares about and he s going to get to them. it s funny you describe them that way. my sense is he s not listening to anything we are saying. if we start talking about it, he s turning it off because he s the one who knows what he knows and what he has yet to know that he s trying to decipher and figure out. i will say this from a political standpoint, the president s lawyer says mueller s not going to be fired. we heard mark short with chuck todd saying le not be fired. surrogates are saying, they re cooperating with investigations in every way possible, where do you think these rum
the president may be posturing as if he wants to help republican candidates, pretty much the president s favorite pass time is actually making life difficult for mitch mcconnell and paul ryan and causing them trouble and generally being up to mischief in that regard, so i think you have to kind of have to look at what he s saying with that in mind. with that being said, as i noted, there are places where he will be an asset. for martha blackburn in tennessee, he might be an asset. if you re looking at for example barbara s district in northern virginia, which is very close to where i live, i don t think barbara probably wants the president anywhere near that district. certainly as a supporter of hers. i would prefer that he stay away. i think it s been demonstrated that when donald trump meddles in virginia politics, it doesn t tend to work out well for republicans. yeah, that s true. the same article, howard, it says that the white house political team says that it s messaging in 20
used? the tools it s used to be able to nullify all the results and i don t think you can do that. there are certain aspects of an investigation that you have to look at and you have to scrutinize, but it doesn t completely negate the legality of an entire investigation and that is again another way of throwing political narrative towards a legal investigation and trying to call the entirety of that investigation into question which is not a fair thing to do. i want to quickly address michael flynn and what the president said friday in regards to pardoning the former national security advisor. quick sound byte here. about michael flynn, would you consider a pardon for michael flynn? i don t want to talk about pardons for michael flynn yet, we ll see what happens. one of my guests said might have been a nudge, nudge, wink, wink code in that remark for flynn. what s your take on that? what kind of nudge, nudge, wink, wink, if you look at the plea agreement that flynn has with t