understand what their constitutional responsibilities are. the power of the purse is sent out to the constitution. the president said it himself when he announced that he was going to try to declare it. the white house has made clear that they will veto it. then it is clear. if we have the members to override the veto, that is what we have to do. we have to make sure this is a clear and transparent process. the american people understand that we have a president who is continuing trying to divert around the constitution and as his friends kim jong-un and vladimir putin, that he does not want to follow democracy. i wouldn t call vladimir putin and kim jong-un his friends. yes, he has praised them. he says i get along great with them and i respect them.
on people to crush that number. also larry hogan says his decision to challenge president trump in a gop primary depends on how soft his political standing is. saying people might panic because his chances of holding the white house are, quote, pretty weak. do you think the president is vulnerable to a primary challenge? i would say today it s unlikely when you look at the numbers. at 70%, 80% of the republican primary voters say they support the president. i don t know what that s going to look like three months, six months from now. depending on how he might soften. the issue i m concerned about is he has a very low re-elect number. high 30s or low 40s. the chance of him losing a general election are pretty good. i m not saying he couldn t win, but he s pretty weak in the general election. at some point, if he weakened further, republicans would say we re concerned about whether or not he s going to win.
and he was caught. i m very proud to say we caught him. so we ll see what happens, but he is a disgraced man. he was terminated not by me. he was terminated by others, the ig report was a disaster. a disaster from his standpoint. anybody reading the ig report would say how could a man like this be involved with the fbi. but mccabe says president trump could not distance himself from his public calls for his firing. and even claimed there is evidence of the private pressure to have him removed. i have seen the letter that the president wrote purportedly himself justifying the firing of jim comey. what does it say? in a rambling four-plus pages, it goes through all the different reasons why he is firing the director of the fbi. i m not going to go through all of those with cryou, but one ise
other candidates who are trying to match him in this, they re going to have to plow ahead to try to be as competitive as someone like bernie sanders. this is an issue people talking about with joe biden. that he doesn t necessarily have the donor base, the small donors base which it seems is going to be pretty successful. that bernie sanders has. exactly. and that s something also that president trump had in 2016. and we did see the president and his campaign, you know, use this fund raising push. it was $6 million in the first 24 hours after he announced. like, we have to match this. we have to pull from our small donors in 2016 to be able to, quote, crush bernie sanders. let s quickly talk the mueller report. we ve got multiple newly launched investigations into the trump administration. how are some of the top democrats preparing for the release of the mueller report? well, they re actually
this. and, you know, of course there ll be some sort of political fire storm, but we could see something as early as next week. so let s talk about that, what you just brought up. the political fire storm that could ensue after the release or lack thereof of this mueller report. what could we see coming out of washington after this thing is released if, in fact, it happens next week or whenever it does happen? well, so a lot of people close in the white house as well as conservatives are hoping that the sort of campaign that the president and his administration have done trying to discredit this investigation, to discredit the mueller investigation as well as the justice department as a whole will tamper some of the expectations that we re going to see out of this. and i think that a lot of democrats who initially put kind of all their eggs in the mueller basket are starting to recognize some of the other informations that they have in their back pocket. we re seeing oversight from