openly gone to war with both republican senators there. and has basically endorsed one of the republican senators you know challenge her in primary where senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is spending money to protect his republican incumbent. this is bull s run. if the tea party is a skirmish, this is full on civil war. this is fascinating. something i don t think we have seen in modern times. new york times report ends with a quote from billy piper, former mcconnell chief of staff. and it is a stunning quote. it says quote the quickest way for him to get impeached is for trump to knock off jeff flake and dean heller and be faced with democrat-led senate said billy piper lobbiest and former mcconnell chief of staff. that s not just a political comment. that comment implies that there
already starting to fix a lot of the walls we already have. okay this is a familiar portion of a trump speech. he is obviously working from a teleprompter and then leaving it whenever he wants to expand on points. and and jennifer reuben, i want to come back to this question of possible republican chlge challengers to the republican president in the next primary. if he lasses that long. there is some question whether he is going to wear out his welcome before then or that he is going to have a complete break with reality. i absolutely think there is going to be at least one challenger. listen, if jimmy carter had a challenger and if gerald ford had a challenger this guy is certainly going to have a challenger. and that may come within the party. if that s doesn t work there may be a third party candidate. i think what you re seeing now clearly with the story that surfaced on the new york times about mitch mcconnell and his knock out drag out with the
mcconnell either wanted the story out or he didn t object to it because clearly the people were free to talk to the times about this. that should send a signal to donald. the problem is he is not sophisticated enough to get the signal. so this i really do think this is a very important story. when you add in the zinke development and the development about kyle icahn, because what happens is if we have someone who isn t technically a federal employee, which may be the case with icahn, but they act as if they are, does our legal system have a way it effectively take care of that. corn el, david just mentioned who feels like team mcconnell sourcing on this new york times report. there is another intriguing possibility about the source williing of this. this is one of the first big bomb shells to come out in the routine we are used to with the new york times and washington post. first big one to come out since
by congress. but i think that event and what we just saw are all connected. trump knows he is in deep trouble. he knows he is highly highly vulnerable in the investigation of russia. and he signalled that to us without a question bp so holding a campaign rally for 2020 is part of an effort to make sure if things go badly for him, he will have people out there in the streets who will be acting on his behalf and who will be disrupting our democracy. central thing about donald trump is donald is about donald. he is about himself and nothing else. there is a politics story at the heart of this new york times story. that is donald trump attacking incumbent republican senators like jeff flake trying to knock them off in primaries. mitch mcconnell and other republicans believe if you do that, that opens up a very good chance for the democrat in arizona to possibly take that
the president attacked mccain repeatedly, know recently for not voting to repeal obamacare. fla new york times reports that president trump is feuding with mitch mcconnell and that they have not spoken in weeks. mitch mcconnell authorized a super pac ad attacking senator jeff flake s primary challenger. thereby setting up another point of conflict with president trump. last week, trump tweeted, great to see that dr. kelly ward is running against flake, jeff flake, who is weak on borders, crime, and a nonfactor in the senate. he s toxic, exclamation point. today s ad by mitch mcconnell attacking challenger calls her