it s really only when there is an identifiable and tangible cost to republicans in congress that they ll flip. i do want to say one thing, i tlout thought at t thought at the beginning and there s a central thing to think about the trump administration, is that he s psychologically and emotionally unwell. all that s unfold during the course of his presidency doesn t make sense. but if you understand that, it does begin to make sense. it s not only the psychology of donald trump, it s the psychology of his supporters too of how they have invested in him early on. once they ve done that, they got to the point where condemning him would become a condemnation of them. and they kreenltcouldn t really that. i think for all of us who have spent our life in politics, maybe the thing that s most important now is less politics than psychology. you know, pete, you and i have spent an awful lot of time,
responses to those events that took place. the president talking about civil war. the president erratically bumbling his way aupped rround white house looking for the whistleblower if the was just sort of detached from reality. so with donald trump, again, it s not even everything that seems to be piling on top of him every day, it s also his very strange reaction to that. doris, you look at the poll numbers and you see how quickly support for impeachment is rising. this is far different than 73 and 74. as i say all the time, my dad was a nixon man and remained a nixon man until the tapes came out and that s when we saw the polls breaking after a year of the watergate hearings and a year of the inquiry. then finally the dam broke and there was a tidal wave of support for impeachment.
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showed, again, just how unmoored he is, not just emotionally, but with the truth. you re right about the whistleblower complaint. we re seeing it in trump media where they re just making things up whole cloth. you could look at a website that just made up a new requirement on a whistleblower complaint. and, of course, the trump media spun that up until it was proven that it was a lie, get four pinocchios and a fact check. i saw a show last night where the poor host who s been a trumpist from the very start was throwing all the mud he could up against the wall. none of it, of course, is going to stick because donald trump and his administration out of control, wildly out of control. you know on the show i was watching last night, this host even talked about joe biden
that s been attempted to pass on a bill. ken, can we just underline right now that inspector general was appointed by donald trump and the acting dni who said that the whistleblower acted in accordance with the law, was appointed by donald trump? this is not a deep state conspiracy. these are all trump appointees. some appointed in the last month or two or three or four months. trump appointees who are all saying that this went by the book. that is absolutely right. and joe maguire, the acting dni who was subject to some criticism from congress now seems to be in good standing because the folks i ve talked to feel like he handled himself well in a difficult position in that hearing. you know, he doesn t want to trash his boss, the president of the united states.