I very much worry about this. We've seen this pattern over and over and over again, which is you get the denial right up until the moment it happens.
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Himes expresses concern about the possibility of Trump firing Mueller based on past patterns.
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I don't think I could look myself in the mirror in the morning and say, yeah, this is a guy who should... have control and access to this authority.
The president was setting the context. He was setting the basis for him to turn around at midnight on Election Day and say, ‘I warned you. I warned you back in July that the Chinese were doing X, Y, Z, and the Venezuelans were doing X, Y…
Very sadly, I think we’re going to test this untested question about whether the program can run on a judicial certification alone.
I try to be nuanced and subtle, but there’s no other word than to say that the president lied to the American public — bald-faced, 180-degrees wrong, easily disprovable lies.





