is the former staff director of the government oversight and reform committee let's start with steve benen he says guys that the firing of james foley was the worst mistake in modern political history and we agree i don't think you're going to get any disagreement from me or i would suspect julianne it was a huge mistake and at the time i was really stunned that the white house thought that it would be a popular decision because komi was criticized from both sides of the aisle we've heard hillary clinton criticizing him as she's embarked on her book tour but you know james komi as steve benen said he was the head of an institution is also the middle of an investigation so when you fire someone it's going to certainly be explosive and as james comey testified to congress he said that he said that memo of his meeting with president trump to his friends at columbia university in the hopes that it would be released publicly and that that would trigger the special counsel and indeed that chain of events you know it happened and now president trump is facing robert robert mueller julian i assume

deals and whatnot and i don't know if that's the reason or not but you know let's let's talk about steve benen for a second here steve bad in may because of the becoming a kingmaker and steve benen has an allegiance to donald trump he said good conservative radio hosts like levin and like laura ingram and like and then you got . pale and they all were for more they all say this helps trump's agenda and it does bad then is not only was out there campaigning for more he's now reportedly traveling the country trying to recruit people who will primary some of these house of representatives moderates to left wingers and also some senate candidates mark green who might who was a primary corker quite possibly was reportedly in the state of alabama meeting with band and now bands traveling so let's not underestimate or overlook that bannon's role in this election and going forward you also have people like that talk about peyton manning possibly running for the corker seat or maybe waiting until two thousand and twenty for lamar alexander you have kelly ward in going against jeff flake in arizona and

limit on keeping the government going is a good first step believe in the night on sixty minutes steve benen said the firing of james komi was the biggest mistake in modern political history he said of komi hadn't been fired there would be a special counsel. i agree larry i think it was a big mistake to fire call me you don't fire the head of the f.b.i. you've got something worse a special prosecutor so i think it was a colossal mistake that is going to hurt the president and his team and this whole rush and best a geisha bill stay right there we'll be right back with more politicking after this break. about your sudden passing i phone lee just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. your act right up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each pair. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to view those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly pr

is a sign of that but interesting the even bright news the populist right wing platform run by steve benen the former trumps chief strategist has so far reported on the election in germany in a very matter of fact and sober way there have been no end of medical articles or anything like that at least not so far quite clearly everybody here as you mentioned at the beginning is focusing on the battle between donald trump and sports stars from the end of the american football league and also the n.b.a. the national basketball association so basically that is the big topic here not the election in germany all right thanks for sharing the view on the german election from your perch in washington that's our correspondent carson always good to see you quick reminder of our headline this hour german chancellor angela merkel is poised for a fourth term in office following parliamentary elections here projections show her conservatives as the biggest party at around thirty three percent of the vote but they have to suffer having losses and the same goes for mantles current coalition partner of the s

so this raises a really important question you've even the billionaire mercer family supporting steve benen in fact they were rebecca mercer i believe was the person who introduced him to trump and got that whole thing going or recommended it at least from what i've read in the press and and you know they they own cambridge. analytical which did all the data crunching and fed all the information to facebook or from facebook to push the trump memes and things in ways that were parallel quite successful and then you've got the koch brothers and their organizations americans for prosperity and in particular but these are those are two very very don't know this ins of let me let me finish this thought then you've got the coax the billionaire coax with americans for prosperity that actually has more employees more offices and more money than the entire republican party and that's a good thing well no what i'm wondering is at what point does the so-called freedom caucus which are all the people who are loyal to the coax we're at what point does the freedom caucus or some even possibly larger frac

and you know when steve benen left the white house and he did that interview he said there there is no solution on the table here that is being presented i mean with the you know if when the last in the security council the last sanction that was passed unanimously against north korea i watched the russian reaction i watched the chinese one and everybody else and they're just hot air with the russians and the chinese actually had a roadmap in victor's right but trump says the time for talking is over again playing into this narrative to fail and that's what they want to everybody around him the deep state the generals and of course north korea and the chinese and the russians are standing back and watching this going into a quagmire when the only thing the north koreans really want is direct talks you know two points on that the russia story the north korea story are very similar when you look at it because they're both designed to deal or to demise trump you each in its own way and so trump is falling for the bait all the time and so just like he's been dealing with russia and he's be

trump presidency so i would see every reason why this could be a tremendously successful effort for steve benen i believe he'll have the backing of all the conservatives and all of the people who like to trump and all of the people going back to the tea party how long is this a real threat to these senators and will the radio talkers buy in oh sure they will and it is very convenient to president trump to have been on the outside playing bad cop and jeanne is right it could work be careful what you wish for with that four seat majority in the senate this could easily backfire because of bruising primary is going to eat up a lot of campaign dole raimi that they're going to need for the general and while the primary opponents are sniping at each other they're going to articulate a lot of the negatives on the each other which the general opponent can use in his or her campaign so be careful what you wish for gina how do we know this is the beginning of the real divide in the republican party. well i think that you can take a look for a while and out of the fundraising numbers i think they're very

ivanka was mentioned as was the former chief of sufferance priebus and former chief strategist steve benen hillary clinton's use of a personal e-mail server when she was secretary of state was often criticized by trump in the lead up to last year's election the first refugees to be resettled under a controversial agreement between australia and the us have flown out of papua new guinea on their way to the united states the group of twenty men has been a straight ahead run prison camp madness island the resettlement deal was organized when barack obama was president but has been criticized by current u.s. presidents donald trump. hong kong's former chief executive has pleaded not guilty to a charge of bribery while in office seventy two year old donald saying faces up to seven years in prison earlier this year he became the first for the hong kong leader to be convicted in a criminal trial on separate charges pollen was at the high court so far donald has spent about two months in jail for misconduct in public office which he is appealing and now he's back in court to face separate bribery

koreans how many japanese and this goes terribly wrong to a rational person we should be saying as steve benen said roughly be shortly before he was thrown out of the white house that there is no military solution to this unfortunately the people around trump and seemingly the president solved. i think that definitely is a military solution well how much do you think this has to do with getting rid of all of his closest advisers that put him in the white house and now being surrounded by pentagon people there's a lot of speculation about that some people say well maybe trying to mean anything he said during the campaign he was just a con man and i don't think that was the case i think he was sincere about all this but you know i think i think he is in a sense a captive of a kind of a cabal of globalists and generals on the other hand he's not even sadat who pointed these people who put them all there who put madison kelly and and the master in there there where they're basically all all they could they could just as easily easily have been in the jeb bush or hillary clinton administration that

quite partisan and the victors of that partisanship or the democratic party if you listen to what steve benen said to charlie rose over this past weekend there is a war with the trump administration involving the g.o.p. there is no love lost between paul ryan mitch mcconnell and trump and his and his administration so right now this is a partisan choice that donald trump is making and let's be clear he has said since day one that he would raise taxes on the wealthy he constantly references bob kraft the owner of the new england patriots i'm a green bay packer fan not a patriots fan however he constantly talks about how bob kraft says and suggests that he can deal with a bit of a tax hike so this really isn't out of the norm for donald trump if you followed him over the past two years oh all right trump in my opinion is really talking to middle america when he talks about middle class when he talks about tax cuts and jobs that's what they want to hear but he's also pushing for the corporate tax rate idea fifteen percent if the democrats you think schumer and palosi are willing to trade on this

that you know when you lift up a rotting log the bugs scurry away to hide again we interviewed steve benen windy at his home in washington which doubles at the headquarters of breitbart news the interview was the day after the trumpet ministration announced it would in dhaka that's the headquarters of breitbart news it's just a living room and in the corner of the table there what appears to be a can of bear mace on it i assume that so the woman in green can keep steve band in a bag just keep the sexual harassment down to a low boil the street fighter she had been a hand came ready to bro and not with liberals or democrats the republican establishment is trying to nullify the two thousand and sixteen election chooses his skin is like literally it is who's ing all of his face is he what it is he looks like a talking to learn. you don't like. substance is something truly. it's so ad he is i don't know if that guy had a brother but it steve bannon clearly they were separated borrowed something blue eyes that blood agger and men in black he wants to rule the world bank and wants to rule the wo

instead he won the white house his former chief strategist steve benen said in a recent interview reaction to that tape showed a general acceptance of trump's behavior among political allies and a bulk of america's voting public it's a litmus test still such tolerance has outraged some in america's political and media circles twitter blew up when the former white house press secretary sean spicer was granted an appearance at hollywood's emmy awards. which. thank you and me. the facts spicer was for the most part embraced by hollywood's trump hating liberals has left many enraged and frustrated by the deterioration of political discourse it's inviting us to engage in sort of a reality show celebrity politics instead of engaging with real substantive issues and for a president promising results many argue there are few accomplishments to show fuelling accusations the acceptance of trump's brand of politics has come at a price kimberly how can al-jazeera washington now release twelve people have died and dozens more have been injured from a triple suicide bombing in nigeria's northeast borno

instead he won the white house his former chief strategist steve benen said in a recent interview reaction to that tape showed a general acceptance of trump's behavior among political allies and a bulk of america's voting public it's a litmus test still such tolerance has outraged some in america's political and media circles twitter blew up when the former white house press secretary sean spicer was granted an appearance at hollywood's emmy awards. ok. which enemies period the fact spicer was for the most part embraced by hollywood's trump hating liberals has left many in red. aged and frustrated by the deterioration of political discourse it's inviting us to engage in sort of a a reality show celebrity politics instead of engaging with real stand of issues and for a president promising results many argue there are few accomplishments to show fuelling accusations the acceptance of trump's brand of politics has come at a price kimberly how can al-jazeera washington. over news of our web site hold the latest on unsung suchi speech to her nation on the growing range of crisis in that recline

have more credibility with the people at night it's a day than the former white house strategist steve benen said the firing of james komi was the biggest mistake in modern political history when you go off far. why i think it led to the appointment of robert muller and alan's point you have there are really two questions here what was the extent to which russia meddled in our election and congress should have a role in that i think i agree they should appoint an independent commission that takes the politics out of it but then there is a question of was there criminal activity was there collusion though that night might not be the perfect legal term was there coordination of some sort and that is what is currently being investigated i think banham was right listen trump made a lot of moves that only raise suspicion as opposed to knocking it down the big question where since tax returns doesn't that is one of the biggest questions right now that the president could settle whether or not he had dealings with russia or not whether any of his corporate entities had dealings with russia or not t