House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Sunday that, despite recent comments from President Trump's lawyer, the president should not pardon himself.
"I think people would erupt. I think even thinking about trying to fire Mueller is a bad move politically,” Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) told CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” referring to special counsel Robert Mueller.
“There’s no way that will happen and the reason it won’t is because it’ll become a political problem,” the former governor told “This Week’s” George Stephanopoulos.
“I think if the president decided he was going to pardon himself, I think it is almost self-executing impeachment. Whether or not there is an argument, that is not what the framers could have intended,” Preet Bharara said.
Rudy Giuliani on Sunday used the revelation that President Trump dictated a letter about a 2016 meeting between his campaign aides and a Russian lawyer to bolster an argument for why the president should not sit for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller.
“I don’t know of the president’s relationship with Dinesh D’Souza. I have never met Dinesh D’Souza, so I don’t think there was a strong relationship between the president and him,” Corey Lewandowski, who served as Trump's campaign manager, told “Fox News Sunday.”
“I would just really say to our closest allies in the world you, the United States, please think hard about the message you are sending to your closest allies,” Chrystia Freeland told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
"What you're watching publicly is a dance. And the dance is going to go on for a while," he said. "The meeting may occur. Frankly, it still may not occur."
A CBS News/YouGov Battleground Tracker poll shows that Democrats would take 219 seats and Republicans would take 216 if the 2018 midterm elections happened today.
The tracker has the margin of error at 9 seats, however.
“I have been frankly shocked at the fact that our leaders think they have to ask permission from the president to do anything. This is very foreign to me. It's alien to me,” Kasich told CBS News’s “Face the Nation.”
Former New York Gov. David Paterson (D) said Sunday that celebrities like Cynthia Nixon, who is running for New York governor, believe they can run for office based on their fame.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is doubling down on his decision to send law enforcement officers from his department, including from the National Park Service and U.S. Park Police, to help apprehend illegal immigrants along the U.S., Mexico border.
In a string of interviews last week, Zinke heavily promoted his decision to send 22 officers to patrol two national parks in Arizona and Texas — a move first reported by The Hill in early May.
