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Ari Fleischer
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I’ve defended Bob Mueller since the day he was announced. I continue to do so. His work is important and the American people deserve to know what he finds - and doesn’t find.

If Trump/Whitaker were to fire him, it would boomerang on Trump severely. nationalreview.com/2018/11/jeff-f…
Many Rs who cut Trump some slack, even if they don’t always like him, will turn against him. Trump’s approval rating will plunge and he will be in credible danger of impeachment and possibly conviction.

Nothing Trump could do would be dumber than firing Mueller.
But just because it’s dumb doesn’t mean that Constitutionally he doesn’t have the right to do it. Everyone in the executive branch works for the President. He has the right to fire. Trump’s predecessors had that right. His successors will have that right. He has that right.
I 100% oppose any legislation to “protect” Mueller. Such a measure is an unconstitutional infringement on the powers of the presidency.
You don’t defend the Constitution by infringing upon it. Our system’s political checks and balances work. Trump won’t fire Mueller because he knows doing so will hurt himself. But if he were dumb enough to do so, he has the right.
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On Acosta, I can't defend his behavior. He uses his position in the briefing room to espouse pesonal points of view. "It's not an invasion" he said re the caravan. His job is to ask challenging Qs, not argue for his POV. He goes too far and hurts the rest of the press corps.
I personally wouldn't have pulled his hard pass. I'd have made light of it, wishing him good luck getting his op-eds published. Or hoping he finally gets to host a nighttime cable TV show. The hostility between the press and the Trump WH is unhealthy and Acosta is the example.
Tension in the briefing room is natural and inevitable, but Acosta has pushed the envelope beyond what any reporter I've ever known has done. I think CNN's suit is a bad move that will backfire. Acosta Hill is the wrong one to die on.
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My observations:

1) GOP losses in the House are in line w the historical average. R gains in the Senate were unusual.

2) If Rs had held the House, the margin would have been so small, nothing of substance would have passed anyway. Senate continues to give R judges.
3) D control of House presents peril and promise for Trump. The peril is subpoenas and investigations. The promise is Trump has a liberal foil to run against.
4) Turnout surged, but not to Presidential levels. In last 3 POTUS elections, roughly 130 million voted. In last 3 mid-terms, roughly 85 million voted. Looks like some 100 million voted yesterday.
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Ari Fleischer
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My predictions:

1) GOP gains net 3 in the Sen.
2) GOP loses between 20-30 in the House
3) No matter what, the results will be exaggerated, over-dramatized and over-hyped for their future significance, esp vis-a-vis impact on Trump's re-elect.
4) 2008 didn't predict what would happen in 2010, which didn't predict what would happen in 2012 which didn't predict what would happen in 2014, which certainly didn't predict what would happen in 2016. 2018 won't predict what will happen in 2020.
5) There's another election in two years. Between now and then, lots will change, for better or worse.
6) The genius of our founders is that we're perpetuly a self-correcting, self-governing system. Enjoy the next two years. We'll do it again.
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