all that said uh it does not mean that this still isn't a political problem for the administration because you can't put all of this sort of back in the bottle I mean this has been something that is uh has been a drip drip drip for months and years and now suddenly to find out oh wait not true the political damage in some respects has been done um so uh we can't um sort of lose sight of that but going forward here this will be looked at as a chapter uh where Congress clearly is following the lea
d of uh not a branch of government but the fourth of State you know a partisan partisan uh me the former president and the former president of course talking all that but I think the Practical matter of this um Visa uh it contributes to the president's lower approval rating when you talk to voters and other things they believe that he is complicit in this people aren't following the news so that's a problem right and and kind of that is that is kind of the point right and I think um I think a lo
t of us uh you know certainly we've been covering this we've heard from people close to Republicans who' told them and warned them that there was no there there um but they still pursued it because that is the point the point it is sort of following the script of of of what the Republicans did to Hillary Clinton with Benghazi right there was nothing there but they spent months uh dinging her and and and damaging her and in the end chaitz went on television and said we kind of that's what we did
yeah and and your point about not being able to put the genie back in the bottle I mean as much as we go on and give the facts and give the information and try to give the reality as much as we know it as we learn it and have said for months if not longer these are the Republican claims they have not give us given us any evidence really to back it up um you you can't change the echo chamber through which a lot of Americans get their information and it's hard to imagine unfortunately that the ton
e and tenor is going to change much even though the facts aren't on their side
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