believe him. i believe it hurts credibility but i believe it s incredible that this is where we are from, again, an investigation that started into so-called russian collusion. paul: all right, thank you all very much, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein responding to an impeachment threat by house republicans with accusations of extortion. we will tell you what s at stake in the showdown between congress and the justice department next . yes. - yes. a little less than a month. coming up on two months now, yeah. cool. so, i want to show you guys these three chevy suv s. the first one is called the trax. beautiful! do you think it would be good for moving in together? moving in together?! ahhh! - ahhh! okay, well, this is the chevy equinox. wow. nice. perfect for when you two have your first kid. give me some time. okay, this is the traverse. for when you have your five kids, two dogs and one cat. (laughter) whoa! five? ahhh. well, no matter what stage of life you re in chevy has an
threat. i can tell you, there have been people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me, for quite some time. i think they should understand right now that the pardon of justice will not be extorted. rosenstein also joked that the root reason they couldn t resist leaking their own document. united state s nuclear agency reports there is zero evidence, none at all, that iran has tried to develop nuclear weapons since 2009. that comes after benjamin netanyahu accused them of running a nuclear weapons program. he is speaking to an audience of one. but the white house says the problem isn t whether iran currently has a nuclear program. the problem is, the deal was made on a completely false
what do you make of the polls we re seeing? it s not the first poll to ask that question, and i think it s a credible question to ask at this stage, because republicans in congress seem eager to handcuff the president ahead of their own party. there s a reason for that, and it s a noble and justified reason. secondly democrats are working on an economic message. it doesn t really exist yet, and their pitch has been we re going to constrain this president, and the top of that list is going to be an impeachment threat. it s an important and valid question. josh, i ll put you in a terrible position. if you were working in the white house right now and saw the poll numbers, what would be the first three things you would tell this administration to do to turn these numbers around? right. the first thing they have to do is they have to go and repair the relationships on capitol hill. they have to figure out a way to get political capital. maybe that means trump traveling for to demonst
fact, politicizing the investigation and putting his thumb on the scale in some way. and he proceeded with caution for that reason. this is the most important institution in our democracy, and so, you want the president to be cautious about how these matters are handled. when they had the information and he felt comfortable that all the agencies were together on it, they made a declaration that the russians had been involved. but look, we re sitting here today, we still don t know all of the details. right. so, to give a half story at that point would have been i think highly political. and looking forward, the whole argument you always hear from the white house, the president can walk and chew gum at the same time. do you think that applies with this? the president can deal with this cloud hanging over the white house and still move his agenda forward, or do you think it gets in the way? we ve seen examples of it. bill clinton was under an impeachment threat and still managed
we saw these communities have enormous power to put pressure on the irs, doj, budgeting for the impeachment threat, the commissioner of the irs. i think we ve seen suggestions in the letter comey wrote to his own staff that he is dealing with internal pressure and problems with his own agents and own senior executives. so you can imagine he is maybe acting in part as he sees to protect the integrity of the institution. unfortunately, he is risking a lot by doing so. having worked in this governmental sphere, that balance of trying to be a law enforcement official, which is what the fbi director, he s the police, not prosecutor, how much does that political pressure wind up weighing in and do the ethics rules constrain somebody in his position no matter how much pressure is on you, you have to abide by rules i m assuming. you have to stand up for both the rule of law, the process, the justice system s process, as