but ultimately the president is his own chief communications officer, chief strategist, chief legal counsel, and this is just how he s going to behave. there is nothing any adviser can do to stop the president from behaving the way he is. and that s why so many of them have quit. going back to what john was saying earlier about the institutions being trashed here, president trump will stop at nothing to discredit the institutions that are meant to keep leaders honest. that includes not only law enforcement but congress and their investigative power, the media most especially, which he s come at us guns ablazing. incredible venom and dishonesty. and you know what other institution is in real peril here? the republican party because they have sat by complicit in all of this, most of them. coming up, the summit with north korea, is it off, or is it on?
like emmet flood doesn t have the power or the moxie or the instinct to walk into the president s office and say, hey, lighten up on the comey trashing. he is a central witness in the mueller investigation, into you and obstruction of justice. but ultimately the president is his own chief communications officer, chief strategist, chief legal counsel, and this is just how he s going to behave. there is nothing any adviser can do to stop the president from behaving the way he is. and that s why so many of them have quit. going back to what john was saying earlier about the institutions being trashed here, president trump will stop at nothing to discredit the institutions that are meant to keep leaders honest. that includes not only law enforcement but congress and their investigative power, the media most especially, which he s come at us guns ablazing. incredible venom and dishonesty. and you know what other institution is in real peril
and he is not somebody that was directly in the trump administration or in the inner circle. he was in an outer circle getting those who were in the inner circle. what i couldn t glean is does the guy like trump or not like trump? he hates him and loves him and hates him and loves heim. it seems like in the span of a few hours. it s like when i m not liked by donald trump i m going to decide to be agresive about it. he has taken a very different approach. steve bannon has a love-hate relationship but has not come out guns ablazing. the one thing i wonder about is how carter page, this is weird. these guys going on tv, not
in flight, which makes them not just ballistic. new cruz missiles, one he may be testing now by scientific measurements that are powered by nuclear nuclear-powered missiles. it all adds up to putin saying if we re going to go there, we re going to go there. he coming out guns ablazing, rhe rhetorically. are you saying he is embellishing the truth that, he does not have this in place as he implies? well, right. he s saying that these are things that the russians are developing, including an underwater drone that can be launched from a submarine, that he purports to be intercontinental, under sea carrying a nuclear weapon. the point why this is so important, we haven t heard this kind of thing, really, since the cold war. this is the opposite of reduction. it is the opposite of new start, any kind of arms control. and putin says it s his response to trump.
interfere with a separate irs investigation of manafort. we re told that the irs and the fbi initially were cooperating on their own manafort probe before mueller was even appointed. the special counsel office went ahead with the search of manafort s home only with fbi agents carrying it out. that is usual to sit out an investigation that centers on tax and financial matters. guys went in guns ablazing, like they were going after a drug kingpin. what does all of this mean about special counsel s investigators and having access to the tax returns? could that lead them to wanting the president s tax returns? he ya. that s the big question that s been sort of knocking around here in washington for months. it is is not clear whether special counsel asked for or obtained the president s tax reforms. if mueller s office does have trump s returns, rod rosenstein who oversees this likely would