Well, odd I think would be a polite way to describe it. I mean, there is -- it is so -- it is so foreign to me having worked in the White House and knowing how scrupulously people dealt with the Justice Department, the FBI, the notion of a president sending his White House counsel over to persuade the attorney general not to recuse himself.
David Axelrod discusses the unusual circumstances surrounding the president's involvement with the attorney general.
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Yeah. I don't see the president-elect as a sentimental person. I don't think he's going to hang on here if he believes that Hegseth has become a liability to him.
There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.
Trump sends out a tweet saying they ought to pass a clean CR with a debt ceiling -- raising the debt ceiling, because as Adam says, he doesn't want to be blamed for it.
The party should look deeper and say, why is it that so many people are disaffected from institutions in this country?
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