run. far, far away. if attorneys in the republican party, it s usually not a partisan thing, came to you and asked your advice about whether or not they should meet with the trump team about defending the president, what would you tell them to do? well, you know, lawyers have a history of representing even the most notorious of didn ts. john adams represented the british soldiers in the boston massacre. so everybody has a right to an attorney. so i would advise them to think about it. i think what is turning off a lot of lawyers are two things, the taint and the tweets. with respect to the taint, i think there is a concern that if you represent this president, it could taint your career forever. and if you are already a very prominent lawyer, maybe you just don t need this. and the risk is just too high. and then the tweets, this is a president who seems not to take the legal advice of the lawyers around him. i am absolutely certain that his lawyers have told him to stop tweeting abo
barden from sandy hook promise. mark lost his 7-year-old son daniel in the sandy hook massacre. you were making a point, yesterday, 24 hours ago the president met with bipartisan members of congress and certainly i thought other didn ts share my opinion but i thought it sounds like a more productive conversation than we ve otherwise had. the president talking about maybe making a bigger bill than the toomey and manchin bill that looks into back ground checks and putting other things in. obviously people who want greater gun control are not going to get everything they want out of this. but did you have some sense that the president is willing to put his back into more than you would have expected? well, you know, the conversations are great. it is very positive and it is encouraging to see the president taking this issue up and taking it seriously. he s going to have to back that up with actions. so we have to see what the plan is and what the next steps are. so right now we re w
podesta might be part of the mueller investigation, because he had a hand in some apparent ly washington lobbying done on behalf of paul manafort. what republicans hear is russia and hillary clinton, we can rally around that. and the argument they re making now, the real russia scandal has to do with hillary clinton and the didn ts, there are a lot of problems with that argument, but it goes to show that on almost any issue, the partisan battle lines can neatly form on both sides as long as people can unite against a common enemy. and they can really set aside a lot of differences about who s in their own ranks. we re seeing a great example of that here, with the russia story, and now the injection of the name clinton. last word to ashley, shannon, same question, fox news tonight was preoccupied with clinton, and uranium, ashley, in your
lawyer was paying for the dossier that was compiled by christopher steele. and we even saw a leak that tony podesta might be part of the mueller investigation, because he had a hand in some apparent ly washington lobbying done on behalf of paul manafort. what republicans hear is russia and hillary clinton, we can rally around that. and the argument they re making now, the real russia scandal has to do with hillary clinton and the didn ts, there are a lot of problems with that argument, but it goes to show that on almost any issue, the partisan battle lines can neatly form on both sides as long as people can unite against a common enemy. and they can really set aside a lot of differences about who s in their own ranks. we re seeing a great example of
that this was all about russia. our man at mar-a-lago correspondent peter doocy live tonight again in palm beach, florida. good evening, peter. good evening, ed, about an hour ago we got the first reaction from the president elect to president obama s decision to punish the russian government and expel those didn ts. it came in a written statement that says this: it s time for our country to move on to bigger and better things. nevertheless, in the interest of our country and its great people, i will meet with people of the intelligence comi community next week in order to be updated on the facts of this situation. so we still don t know, based on that statement, what the next president plans to do about these sanctions, whether he wants to leave them in place or get rid of them. but, that statement about saying it s time to move on is completely consistent with what the president-elect said last night on this issue. i think we ought to get on with our lives. i think the computers