until this afternoon. you could feel the pressure mounting. you could sort of see in the president that he understood and he felt the tension in the room as we were all bombarding him with those questions. there s also reporting there were a number of staff members, john kelly, and others urging him, this is not a good look for you. the president was also seeing just endless criticism. you had the shot of the flag up at full staff this morning and you had the washington monument in the background, you re looking at it right now, with all those flags at half staff. veterans groups, the president has claimed he is such a champion of, coming out and criticizing him, and in the end he decided to do exactly what his aides urged him to do and put out that statement. deeply skeptical that anyone in the white house staff was offended on behalf of an
in this article that talks about trump testifying in a deposition and saying, the value of my business is whatever i say it is. so we may see that the emperor at the end of the day doesn t have any clothes or at least not as many as he s tried to tell folks he has all along. and it s a family business. they caught our attention today about don jr. let s watch. i predicted yesterday based on excellent sourcing that the special counsel is going to charge donald trump jr. with lying to the fbi. notice that they re not charging him for having an illegal meeting with a russian at trump tower because there is nothing illegal about that meeting. with friends like those, innocent on collusion, but yes, he obstructed justice. matt miller, what do you make of roger stone? first of all, i think the disclaimer by roger stone, you always have to take everything with a grain of salt that he says. it could have been a crime that donald trump jr. committed in
mounting. you could sort of see in the president that he understood and he felt the tension in the room as we were all bombarding him with those questions. there s also reporting there were a number of staff members, john kelly, and others urging him, this is not a good look for you. the president was also seeing just endless criticism. you had the shot of the flag up at full staff this morning and you had the washington monument in the background, you re looking at it right now, with all those flags at half staff. veterans groups, the president has claimed he is such a champion of, coming out and criticizing him, and in the end he decided to do exactly what his aides urged him to do and put out that statement. deeply skeptical that anyone in the white house staff was offended on behalf of an american hero. this was the same white house
republicans now think the fbi is somehow a danger or a hindrance. it s unprecedented to see the party that has stood for law and order and who was quite honestly and if we have to break this down, just go back about a year or two ago when black lives matter was raising concerns about federal investigation of state police actions involving african-americans and the lack of response to that. it was these same republicans who came running to the defense of the fbi and how dare you criticize these hard working men and women who protect the begty of our communities and constitution. now think that the fbi is a load of crap. so you can t have it both ways. this is nothing more than a political opportunity that s being seized on to protect the president who at the end of the day doesn t give a damn about the republicans getting in front
years. so many of the voices out there are speaking to him saying, quit disrespecting us, quit holding us down. he is not he is not holding women down. but there are women who genuinely feel like that and we know there were a lot of issues that were being addressed yesterday. no doubt about it. but for him to tweet this and move it to the successes that he made he is trying to lift up women and all americans. you know what? not all women are focused on politics. they are focused on their families, on their children, on putting food on their table and gas in their cars and paying for their kiss to go to school. when his policies affect women and more women are in the work force and you get pay raises and bonuses that matters. all of the rhetoric at the end of the day doesn t matter when you re having policies that are positive and they impact people