the former being what i said about paul, i thought he was driven by power, money and relevance and this was the ultimate relevancy to paul, it was his return to washington, d.c. after being in exile in the ukraine for about 10 to 15 years. and i think that s what drove him to that, but what he didn t anticipate and he should have, he s smarter than that, that his background would be deeply sk t scrutiniz scrutinized. because you can argue that none of these issues, the mueller investigation would have come up if he wouldn t have put himself in that spotlight. so that s just an error on his part. and we turn to breaking news in this unfolding fight over the government shoutdown. you know about the house freedom caucus apparently folding,
accusing him of the russia probe. that has led him to bob mueller, and he has taken turns publicly and privately going after sessions. telling people around him if he had known sessions would recuse himself, he never would have appointed him attorney general. if he had never appointed him attorney general, he wouldn t have had the roy moore debacle. all of that is a 13-month stretch of that turbulence we saw in the first year. ned, let me bring you back into that. obviously you re a critic of this president and a critic of this white house. i m curious, though, to take a step back from your policy grievances with the administration, after year one do you see an administration that s maturing in terms of the mechanics and the efficiency of being president, or do you still see the chaos that jonathan is describing here sort of lingering into year two? steve, i certainly don t think we saw the chaos that really marks the first couple months of the trump administration.
demol iss demolished. and also cnn, through the good reporting i saw hours ago, had several women who alleged that they worked there and had seen roy moore there. that brings us to the yearbook, right? at your press conference with beverly nelson, you presented to prove that she knew him and that, in fact, he wrote this sort of affectionate sort of inappropriate note to her when she was 16. he and his lawyers have called that into question, saying the signatures don t match. he wouldn t have signed his name that way. there are inconsistencies and have asked you to turn it over to a third party. the one on the bottom is the one in the yearbook. the other ones are his signature from 2017 and 1999 and he says that that da you see in the 1999 one was his assistant so that the bottom one was forged later, basically, is his contention. he wants you to turn it over to
sure you speak quietly in front of the camera even privately behind the scenes. even if president bush had had twitter, he wouldn t have used it. he wouldn t have called kim jong-un short and fat? he was not the insult candidate. forgive me for laughing. corker holding this meeting saying i want to see what it would take because of who suddenly has the keys. you know, this was actually an issue prior to the election. you might recall one of the more alarming ads that the clinton campaign ran was with someone who actually works in the process of launching a nuclear weapon and talked specifically about how little, how few steps you have to take. this is a relic of the cold war era where you wanted to be able to respond quickly and didn t have to go through these checks and balances. the question that senator markey has been asking on capitol hill is do we not really want to have any checks and balances?
tumult was not doing anything to be more obstructive and making sure you speak quietly in front of the camera even privately behind the scenes. even if president bush had had twitter, he wouldn t have used it. he wouldn t have called kim jong-un short and fat? he was not the insult candidate. forgive me for laughing. corker holding this meeting saying i want to see what it would take because of who suddenly has the keys. you know, this was actually an issue prior to the election. you might recall one of the more alarming ads that the clinton campaign ran was with someone who actually works in the process of launching a nuclear weapon and talked specifically about how little, how few steps you have to take. this is a relic of the cold war era where you wanted to be able to respond quickly and didn t have to go through these checks and balances. the question that senator markey