at the anti-Trump press is trying to push every door open, trying to test every line of attack. And their newest one is kind of clever if you haven't noticed yet. The newest line of attack is to ask Trump supporters on the air, do they think President Trump lies? Now what are you gonna do if you're a Trump supporter and somebody says, I just have this one question: Has the president ever lied? Or does he lie? And the poor Trump supporter ends up saying, well your network lies and every other people lie, and they end up looking unprepared, let's say. And they are unprepared because you're not really expecting that question.

It's one thing, and this is the way the press has been doing it before prior to this. The press usually asked, is this one thing true? And then you can quite easily argue no, that one thing is being misinterpreted. So that's easy for the Trump supporter to support. But when they say, has the president ever lied, like ever, what the hell are you gonna do? That doesn't make you look like a turnip. Well, what do you do? It's an excellent trap. And I don't know if they sort of chanced upon it. When I saw Cuomo doing it to, I forget who, but it was quite effective because, well, somebody says the easy answer is no. But you know there are something like 11,000 fact-checking problems. I don't think even Trump supporters believe that any politician has ever told the truth all the time.

Here's how I would answer that question, Scott: Does the president ever lie? And I would say, you know, I think every politician stretches their version of events so they all do it. He uses more hyperbole than most people. But if you look at it, you see it's well-intentioned and it's directionally where we would like to be led, or it's irrelevant. So yes, politicians do like to shape the truth. This president's not different from any other president or any other politician or every other pundit or indeed every other press person you've had on there. Everybody's giving you their version of the truth. Sometimes people are wrong and that gets called lies. Sometimes they use a little hyperbole and that gets called lies. But you know, I'm not here to put words on it. The fact is we're dealing in a realm in which the truth has largely been discarded by everybody. That's the way I'd go about it.

So the big disappointment for the Democrats, as you all know, was expecting that the Russia collusion situation would take the president out of the job. And then it turns out that Mueller came out and said we didn't find much. We didn't find much here. So here's what I'm starting to think might happen with the IG report. So those Republicans who are quite happy when Mueller found nothing that seemed too actionable, or at least nothing that was going to be actionable, and Republicans said yeah, now watch for the IG report which is going to make all of these characters, we know the Comeys and the McCabes and whoever else we're demonizing today, is gonna make them all go to jail and pay for it. And their fraudulent, treasonous activities will all be uncovered. Or not.

So here's what I'm gonna add to the conversation. I'm not so sure the IG report is gonna be that damning. It's gonna be damning because it'll talk about a lot of stuff and you know somebody always makes some kind of mistake. So I'm not saying that everybody will get off free. I'm just saying that if you're expecting people to go to jail, pro