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Helped break the story for the New York Times. Hes also a cnn political analyst and he joins us now via skype. Michael, im glad you could join us this evening. Your colleague, Michael Smith landed an impromptu interview with the president today and the big headline, he believe the special counsel will treat his fairly in the russia investigation. Yeah, no, thats right. It was about a half hour interview and totally impromptu and down at the president s golf club in west palm beach, florida. But there was a lot there. The thing that struck us most was the comments that the president made about the russia investigation. Notably that he thought bob mueller was going to be fair to him which undercuts and undermines that many of his party have been making for the last several weeks that theyve been attempting to discredit and undermine muellers investigation, calling it partisan. S ....
Lil liar and a threat to our democracy. Turning against ourselves, glorifying in the things that divide us and calling fake things true and true things fake. You said hes an untruthful president. Yeah, no question. We grew up in our family not using the l word, okay. But just theyre provable untruths. Provable. Senator corker, senator flake both absolutely right. We cannot call fake things true and true things fake. We cannot allow the president himself to lie to us. These are words that President Trump and his party need to hear. America needs to hear them. Its the reason were here night after night digging through the events of the day and trying as best as we can to get to the facts. And that is nothing new. I want you to listen to these famous words from the mccarthy hearing back in 1954. Asking senator Joseph Mccarthy this. Youve done enough. Have you no sense of decen ....