helpful. with us tonight to talk about it, alexie mccammen, politics reporter for axios and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee. former lieutenant governor of the great state of maryland and the only host we know of of the michael steele podcast. good evening and welcome to you both. michael, i have a brief snippet of mitch mcconnell appearing on fox news tonight to play for you. we ll discuss it on the other side. they just can t let it go, laura. you know, i said weeks ago case closed. we got the mueller report. the only objective evaluation that will be conducted. nobody has any confidence that the democratic house is going to engage in any kind of appropriate oversight. the case is closed. why don t we move on? michael steele, nothing to see here. nothing to see here. it is the attitude that reflects the relationship between the speaker and the president where it is very clear the dominant
reporter for axios and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee. former lieutenant governor of the great state of maryland and the only host we know of of the michael steele podcast. good evening and welcome to you both. michael, i have a brief snippet of mitch mcconnell appearing on fox news tonight to play for you. we ll discuss it on the other side. they just can t let it go, laura. you know, i said weeks ago case closed. we got the mueller report. the only objective evaluation that will be conducted. nobody has any confidence that the democratic house is going to engage in any kind of appropriate oversight. the case is closed. why don t we move on? michael steele, nothing to see here. nothing to see here. it is the attitude that reflects the relationship between the speaker and the president where it is very clear the dominant player is the president, not just because he s president but
now, that said, there s no unanimity on this issue as you well pointed out, harris, especially among lawmakers and gop lawmakers on capitol hill. i want you to learn to the senator from the beautiful commonwealth of kentucky, rand paul. the president said we ll fight when we have to. when we win, we re coming home. it s an incredibly bold maneuver. all of the naysayers in washington will be against him. if you ask the american people, this is why president trump won the election. i want to just give you a brief snippet of international perspective while i have a moment, harris. you may have heard this. vladimir putin said he s heard the u.s. make similar proclamations in the past. he said they said that before and 17 years on, they re still there fighting. so he s not sure that the u.s. will ultimate pull out.
small, little piece of intelligence that ended up to osama bin laden s undoing. they actually found a brief snippet of an intercept, a communication intercept, where somebody was talking about the great one and their service to the great one, and they would have to leave for some period of months. now, in a vast collection of intelligence, you d think, yeah, that doesn t mean all that much. but a very smart analyst looked at that and said, you know, the long and short of that i think this guy could be working for osama bin laden. then they set up surveillance and a long process to catch that person actually showing up at the compound on one day. and if it weren t that particular day, this he would have missed the whole thing for, who knows, another two years. those couriers, by the way, changed frequently. it was really solid, hard intelligence work that got us to the fact where people decided on whole, by the way, with some congressional oversight, that
president would just take a minutes and try to understand the immense effort to get a small, little piece of intelligence that ended up to osama bin laden s undoing. they actually found a brief snippet of an intercept, a communication intercept, where somebody was talking about the great one and their service to the great one, and they would have to leave for some period of months. now, in a vast collection of intelligence, you d think, yeah, that doesn t mean all that much. but a very smart analyst looked at that and said, you know, the long and short of that i think this guy could be working for osama bin laden. then they set up surveillance and a long process to catch that person actually showing up at the compound on one day. and if it weren t that particular day, this he would have missed the whole thing for, who knows, another two years. those couriers, by the way, changed frequently. it was really solid, hard