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In front of him. jim, mike allen reports mueller s team is rooting around inside trump world more deeply than is publicly known. outside west wing advisers tell me that may create a showdown. tell us more. you guys are the masters of the tease. and i was dying to know where and when this said showdown would take place. i ve heard some similar reporting in part around this sort of false narrative, this false picture that ty cobb is painting that when that turns out to not be true, they re going to have a president who is even more unhinged than he was this weekend on twitter. yeah, i think listen. both the abc story and the washington post story, they are good. i wasn t terribly moved by anything new in those. when you step back, like what they did capture, is what worries the white house is there s so many contacts from so many different people. and whatever the mood music is right now in the white house, those people who have been interviewed have no clue if they should feel g ....
Listen to what he says. like a lot hasn t actually happened. it s all this nonsensical rhetoric, largely manifested on twitter that sends us all into a tizzy. but it is remarkable and as much as i can on the weekends, i d rather listen to my kids do it than trump. we were talking. i did not watch any news or follow the president over the weekend. so i read in last night. and maybe it packs more punch when you read it all at once. but i did catch adam schiff s response. the president would have left american students in a foreign jail because their families department lavish sufficient praise on him. how can someone in such a big office be so small? and you just to sort of address jim s point, they are petty nonsense, but we have always throughout the history of american sort of presidential politics, we ve always taken any little window into the human being as an opportunity to glean something about how they govern. and i think what we glean from these tweets and jim is right. ....
Political calculation like some of his supporters have which is unfortunate and a problem for the republican party but, yes, mitch mcconnell who said those four words. i believe the women which were very important words to say they came at a time where some folks were still saying, if true, then it s terrible and he needs to step down and that really changed the conversation, the way that the republicans framed that moving forward. but politically, there s still the problem that a lot of folks who support roy moore hate mitch mcconnell and the fact he s talking about ousting him if he were to win is funding roy moore s fund-raising. and sort of backfiring in that way. jim, let me get you in on this. everything any reporting you guys have unearthed about what sort of inspired mitch mcconnell to take it farther than anyone at the white house had to that point, taken it and to say those words, i believe the women? he looked at the women on the ....
They re nothing more than his musings. it is petty. it s all about him. he didn t release anyone from jail was he was compelled to have americans have their justice get it out in america. he did it with an expectation that he d be praised and celebrated like the people he was visiting. and it s a demonstration under complete lack of utter impulse control. jim is right. they re substanceless but they have a big impact hospopularity. you can actually trace the polling from the day that he tweeted about having his wires tapped, obama tapping his wires at trump tower and look at his job approval rating and that s when it starts to take a turn from which he still has yet to recover. you have written about not just trump s tweets but what he sees on twitter. what i ve learned is that is what he s doing the rhetoric, as jim said, and what makes him unpopular among swing voters and some who crossed over and voted for him. i ve heard this, too. ....
Probably many more, who had some level of contact with people very close to vladimir putin, it s weird. is it illegal? we ll find out, but it s definitely weird. it s very weird. you know i m just teasing you about not being moved. i m not easily moved. i know that. i know this about you. and i have to say, paul, jim was at the white house when the bush white house had a special counsel appointed to uncover the details about how valerie plame s name was revealed, how she was outed as a spy. we were often learning from the press where the special where pat fitzgerald had taken the investigation. so not to overplay the abc reporting, but it is possible that there are people in this white house who learned from that account about the special counsel now seeking document production from the justice department. special counsel robert mueller was my boss when i worked at the justice department. he s a stickler for expediency. ....