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at the radio ranch? It really wanted to get some sound to go. Oh, gimme Chuck Schumer please positive sean hit me with some chuck. The President himself has called without qualification for the report to be made public. There is no reason on God's green Earth why Attorney General bar should do any less. Well, that is the major issue that everybody agrees on. Fake. So to talk about the transfer of the MOLA report to the Justice Department,
the summary thereof the politics going forward, etcetera. Please welcome David Drucker from the Washington Examineries, their senior political correse funding. Hello David, how are you hey? You good to talk to you? So how big a development. Is this to a guy like you who's followed politics as a career, the nonfinding of any collusion. You know, it's funny, it's
it is. It is technically a really big development. But of course, in Washington sometimes I feel like I'm so used to breathless uh conspiracies and breathless opinions and declarations that it's just another Monday and tomorrow will move on
to something else. But look, clearly, for President Trump, this was a major development and a good development, because if for no other reason, if the opposite finding had been made, it would be so entirely bad and so entirely bad for his party that this alone, just on its space, can't be anything other than a really good development. You know,
it's funny, and you make an excellent point. The finding of something not happening shouldn't be that big deal, except in as far as the American media um present company accepted obviously have to my mind, humiliating themselves by just absolutely falling for every rumor, line and sinker, and the Democrats having put so much emphasis is this on a theme? I mean, for those reasons, the nothing happened is enormously important going forward. Yeah, Well, I think we need to
separate some of these issues out sure. Um, you know, I think, first of all, when it comes to the my industry, and I mean, I've been funny critical of my industry. I should have got into this line of work, and I was critical of the industry and wanted to do it differently. But you know, I think there's a difference between reporting news surrounding Mula's investigation and then breathless
and speculating as an opinionist. And I think a lot of the reporting surrounding the Mueller investigation was just fine because I mean, Mueller is appointed, that's news. Mueller broad indictments, that's news. Mueller does this or that, that's all news. The President voices his married opinions on Mueller, including calling him, you know, essentially the leader of twelve angry Democrats, that's news. I think that's perfectly legitimate and is always going to
be reported. And that's different from somebody going on television or on the radio and claiming things to be true that they don't need know to be true. So, um, I understand why people are angry at the media, and a lot of you know, what we get is deserved. I don't necessarily think most of the reporting around this was off base. It's just it was happening and it
had to be reported. What if what if, for instance, one of the one of the heavyweight journalistic outlets me not name, but what if they went very very big on a particular story saying Michael Cohen and Prague or you know, another one of the claims of the steal dust yes and yeah, but that is but then printed no attraction when it came clear it wasn't true. Right, But that's a different issue from the media embarrassed itself. In other words, there was there was a ton of reporting.
I don't mean this, by the way, to defend the media. I just I'm sort of trying to explain how this works. The President of the United States speaks it's news. When the federal government takes major action, it's news. This is totally different from anonymous, resourced reports that are either proven wrong or can not be proven true by any stretch.
And that is embarrassing and that shouldn't happen. And that is also different than people going on the air and voicing opinions based on facts that are not in evidence. So all of that is embarrassing. But I think there are different ways to look at the media's coverage. I think we're tracking with you, and it's a point well made.
David Drucker, senior political correspondent for The Washington Examiner. Uh, what about the politics of or the Democratic strategy is going forward to Adam Shift, for instance, vowing that no, do we think there is collusion and we're going to keep investigating. Right, So I'm looking for Democrats, Adam Shift isn't their nominee for president because he's been, you know, pushing the envelope on this for months, and um, you know,
might look pretty silly to a lot of people. And I think that it sort of depends on what the party does with this, and remember there are many different parts of the party when you're trying to assist how this is going to look in twenty I know that what Republicans think, and this is what they've been telling me this morning, is that the Democrats pushed so hard on this that their base is going to continue to
eat it up. Therefore, they're going to have to continue to push on this, and independent voters are going to say, well, now it's been proven that Trump's you know, on the up and up. You guys don't want to focus on problems he does, and so, um, you know what, I think we'll vote for Trump, and I think that that's possible.
But I think people need to understand, as you know, your listeners are trying to assess what happens, that there is a difference in terms of what it's being discussed by leaders in Washington and Congress and what candidates for president are talking about on the trail and what voters are asking about. Um. And so, Russia has definitely been a major issue. And as I already told you, if this is a big political victory for Trump that allows him now to proceed forward, he could win a re election,
whereas the opposite might have totally completely precluded that. But we don't know eventually, when there's a Democratic nominee that they're going to keep banging this drum. And we don't really know yet what the campaign trail is going to look like for the leading candidates. Are they going to discuss this or is it going to be raised in town hall meetings? Uh? You know, and they might and
it might be. And I think if they want to focus on this, then it is going to be a problem for them because any voters are going to say, Mueller's spoken on this. You know, we all think he's a pretty decent guy. Now, how are you going to help? How are you going to make my life better? Possible? That Wall, Wall shift and Nadler and everybody else is talking about this in d C. It's going to be different in the States, and I think that will impact
the race of the president. And finally, I just want to get this point in the president, it's probably going to continue to act like the president, which works with him in some ways but doesn't work for him in other ways. And so I'm not sure once this all shakes out and settle down that I think we're not going to go sort of back to what has been the norm over the past two years. Well, I think you make an excellent point that the kitchen table issues
of America are vastly different than what's hot inside the Beltway. Um. And in terms of the primary, I don't think the Russian collusion and humiliation is going to be that much of a factor. But when it comes to the general, Republicans would be insane not to tar every Democrat across the land with a they swear to you this was true for years. I can't even take them seriously. I mean, that is going to be big and old Donald J. Can you imagine coming to debates and and Israelies and
the rest of it. That's gonna that may be the theme, and that is what they're going to do, and it may make a huge difference. And so I'm just curious to see as Republicans and the President make this case, which I would make if I were them, if it's able to overpower some of the things that have caused the president problems generally, because I don't actually think the cloud of the investigation was necessarily the problem. The results could have been a problem. I always felt it was
how the President talked about the investigation. And I think that the President will continue to talk about House Democratic investigations and whatever is going on with the Southern District of New York, and he will continue to sort of just be the way he is, which works really really well for a portion of the Republican base and doesn't work really well for another part of the Republican coalition. Will that overpower this major issue Democrats are going to
have to reckon with How will they handle it. How will Trump handle it? I mean, either there are a lot of unknowns and this could go in a couple of different directions. You know, what I try and do is not reach conclusions yet that I don't have quite enough evidence for some different I know it's it's it's horrible for my career. It would be much better if I just take the lane and swore by it and
then let it big. But what I'm saying is this, This clearly is a major victory for the president, and if Democrats mis handle us going forward, then it can continue to pay political dividence for him. Uh And part of that will depend on how he handled it, and it could totally be the opposite, except it will never be one thing. It will never be the end of his presidency, and it will say Republicans down valid immeasurable ain't because they don't have to deal with running underneath
the president who's been accused of conspiring. David Drucker, Washington examined or Senior political correspondent, David, I'm afraid we're out of time, but well done. Great to talk to you. Thanks anytime. Thank you. When you're ready to ride Metro, we want you to know we're ready for you. Here are just a few of the people at Metro to tell you how we're doing our part to keep writers safe. We're cleaning before you've found halfs out of tune of stations,
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