Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Or distorted what happened in the election campaign. But what is Donald Trumps core point that he wants to say even more than no collusion, no collusion, no collusion . It didnt change a vote. So this is a problem. So if they had stepped up their game in 2016 and the Obama Administration was asleep at the switch, maybe they did change some votes. Trump is not stupid well, i wont say stupid or not. Trump wants to deny that russia could have had an influence in 2016 and theyre saying russia could well have had an influence. I understand that some of us are being too cynical about this briefing, but again without the president on it, how do you take it credibly. If makes a big difference. If it were the president , it would be Something Else. The white house continues to want to say and they say this repeatedly, this administration has been toughe
here it is. it s pretty clear a president can t be subpoenaed to a criminal proceeding about him. if he wanted to obstruct it, he d obstruct it, end it. you d all battle whether he has the legal right to do that, which i think he does. if the president is acting within his capacity as president and he fires someone, that can t be questioned. but he is not obviously going to give up his right to pardon if a mischarge mischar mischar mischarge carriage of miscarriage of justice. of course he could. collusion is not a crime. you cannot indict the president. so why do we think i threw all that out there because why do we think we re at month eight now and this is dragging on? i had saul wisenberg on and he thinks the it s a game of chicken, mueller is not 100% he d win that subpoena. the white house is not afraid of a subpoena. this is ridiculous. i m not sure rudy giuliani is