Fredration and said we re going to kick out all of these intelligence officers and the entire jelgs community expected the russians to react ferociously as they would normally but in fact mike flynn was saying to them, don t react. we got your back. coming to coming to office in 20 days. was that the red flag he needed to go down and say we have questions for you. we know mike flynn lied. he got caught lying. we know trump tower meeting was not about adopss, it was about sanctions, we know there were contacts with russians about lifting sanctions. what is left to sort of flesh out what sorts of evidence remains needed to tie this all together? we ll know when mueller talks but this is a very big reminder, it s always been the third rail that caused all of the lying, caused flynn to lie. even today why was manafort basically lying when he had so much to lose, ten years as they say they took back? it was mostly about kilimnik.
I think democrats look at the republican party and say you know, negotiation usually is a two way street. these guys have a bunch of one way signs up right now and that s unacceptable. david brooks refers to the republican party as not a normal party if they won t take this deal. pretty rough language for somebody that was hired by the times to represent the republican view. he s not a conservative, but is it true that john boehner doesn t have the credibility to sell a deal to his tea party caucus the way he did the cr and the other two in the same way. maybe it s a higher bar he has to meet. i think he does. the issue is members of congress and the house, more than anything else want to be re-elected. they do? some of them do. i don t know if that s true. my point is this, having worked at the nrcc, what you see basically is three change elections in a row. people are afraid in terms of how this could all flesh out.