Trump Foreign Policy adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with russians. Court documents suggest he has been a cooperating witness for months, maybe even wearing a wire. Tuesday the president takes to twitter, of course, to try to do damage control. Quote, few people knew the young low level volunteer named george, who has already proven to be a liar. Check the dems. But wait, theres more. Today the president said this about his meeting during the campaign with his own Foreign Policy advisers, including that socalled low level volunteer named george. I dont remember much about that meeting. It was a very unimportant meeting. Took place a long time ago. Dont remember much about it. Well, in the interest of refreshing the president s memory, according to what he said just nine days ago, one of the great memories of all times, there is this photo of the meeting. Tweeted from his very own account. On wednesday we learned that that meeting, the president entertained the possibility of a sit down with vladimir putin, and it was suggested by, wait for it, George Papadopoulos. On thursday we learned that Jeff Sessions rejected the meeting idea but somehow neglected to mention it in multiple congressional hearings. That same day former trump Foreign Policy aide carter page says he told sessions in june of 2016 that he was taking a trip to russia. Thats not all. We also learned that President Trumps own soninlaw, Senior Adviser jared kushner, has turned over documents to Robert Muellers team. Other witnesses in the investigation have been asked about kushners role in the firing of the fbi director james comey. And that brings us to today. Friday. Carter page telling our very own jake tapper that he mentioned that planned trip to russia on a few people on the campaign, and President Trump says this as he heads out on a trip to asia. All i can stel you is this. There was no collusion. There was no nothing. Its a disgrace, frankly, that they continue. You want to look at Hillary Clinton and you want to look at the new book that was just put out by donna brazil where she basically bought the dnc and she stole the election from bernie. So thats what you ought to take a look at. There are some certain real questions about Hillary Clintons relationship with the dnc, questions that we have been covering and will continue to cover. But Hillary Clinton lost the election. Shes not the president of the United States. Donald trump is. And that makes the russia investigation a matter of national and international importance. Dont let anybody distract you from that. I want to bring in now cnns chief National Security correspondent jim shoe dough, cnn political analyst margaret and cnn political commentator mat lewis. Thank you for coming on. Jim, the president is heading out of the country right now as things are heating up with the russia investigation. His administration under pressure. Remember this from back in february . Can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the course of the election . Well, i told you general flynn obviously was dealing, so that was one of them. As he should have been. During the election . No, nobody that i know of. That was an unqualified denial there. But the key question after this week did President Trump and Jeff Sessions mislead about Campaign Contacts with russia. Well, listen, don, the trump world story on their contacts with russia has changed a number of times, because remember the initial story was there were no contacts or meetings. They were dismissed out of hand. That has been proven false overtime. There was documentation of these meetings, emails, et cetera. And now you have President Trump himself and others admitting that such meetings took place, but dismissing them as unimportant. The next story was that there was nothing untoward discussed in those meetings, that they were a matter of course, normal kinds of conversations during a campaign between a nominee and an important foreign country and officials of that country. But we now learn, and again, theres documentation that there are emails that describe that russians were offering damaging information on then nominee trumps political opponent, Hillary Clinton and in motherinlaw one instance beyond the trump tower meeting in june of 2016. Now George Papadopoulos describing other russians offering him similar dirt as it was described in the court documents. So the story has changed a number of times, and each time its expanding. And we know that this is very much of interest to the special counsels investigation. Jim, i want to stick with you for a moment because i understand you have been doing more reporting late tonight on the russian investigationment what do you know . Thats right. The New York Times a short time ago broke a story that said that carter page had in fact met with russian, at least one russian Government Official during a trip to moscow during the summer of 2016. I have since spoken to carter page himself just a couple of minutes ago. He confirms that this is true. He says, though, that this was not a formal meeting. That he met, in his words, this russian official. They were at the same event. They were both speaking at the same event at the new Economic School in moscow and that he met him there. He said it was a matter of course because they were both participating in the same event. This person, i should add, was a senior russian official, a Deputy Foreign minister of russia. And i just want to look down at my notes here because i want to pronounce his name correctly. His its arc ade and i have to i just have to get it right. Thats all right. Take your time. Its friday night. Come back at me so i get it right because i dont want to misstate it. But it was the Deputy Foreign minister of russia. And again, carter page confirmed it took place, but again, he says it was not two officials sitting at either end of a Conference Room table but that he met him ace matter of course during an event that they were both taking part in. Now, the trouble, of course, is that in previous interviews when asked about these kinds of meetings in the past carter page has denied that theyve taken place. Matt, i want to bring you in. You heard the president say that he doesnt remember that National Security meeting where papadopoulos proposed a putin meeting. It was just last week that he said this. Watch this. Theres no hesitation. One of the great memories of all time. So does the president have a selective memory . It was in july that he told the New York Times he didnt remember details about his oneonone meeting with comey. Well, i think hes like everybody else. He doesnt remember everything. He should quit bragging about having a great memory. Hes human. And so maybe he doesnt remember that. Thats plausible of the he meets a ton of people. Who knows . But, look, the problem is its hard to give any of these people the benefit of the doubt, right. Carter page, what he just explained makes perfect sense. Youre speaking at an event. You bump into somebody else who is speaking there. Is that a meeting . I dont know if that qualifies as a meeting. If that was the only instance, then you could just, you know, give him the benefit of the doubt. But its like these things keep coming up. And so its really hard to give these guys the benefit of the doubt because theres always whatever theyre saying, theres another shoe to drop. Yeah. The president is saying he doesnt remember another person in that meeting. J. D. Gordon told cnn trump heard papadopoulos out. What do you think . Who knows about that. Here what ive been saying all along is theyd better be telling the truth, okay, because youve got this investigation now where you have the ability to indict people and squeeze them. Youve had no knock raids on peoples houses. Youve had their Storage Facilities raided. Youve had Donald Trumps security guard, i think is going to be questioned now. Anybody who is lying about anything right now could go to jail just for that. If youre lying to the fbi, that is a crime. They are putting the squeeze on these people, and i do think some of these, especially the younger folk here, may be stupid enough to really get themselves in trouble. Yeah. Margaret, i want to bring you in. Listen, margaret, i cover this every single night, and thars a lot of information. Its confusing. Wait a minute, whats happening with this person . Whats happening with this person . President trumps longtime adviser former bodyguard as matt just mentioned will face a wide range of questions on tuesday from congressional investigators including on the president s 2013 moscow trip and the firing of former fbi director james comey. He only left the white house in september. And again, when the president says this investigation has nothing to do with him, hes wrong. You cannot over state how close these two men are. What a confident he has been to President Trump. How sort of unthe president felt in those days after shirley returned to the white house and returned to the private sector. What he saw, what he heard, obviously thats going to be of intense interest to investigators and to lawmakers. What hes going to share with them and what he actually did here is another matter. And when you talk about loyalists to the president , id be hard pressed to think of many people who are closer or more loyal. Margaret, youre right. You could hardly get a pictured with candidate trump, trump, you know, the real estate person, the candidate and then as president without shirley in the picture. I mean, they were together pretty much all of the time. Jim, carter page spoke to jake tapper, as we have been talking about there. But listen, i want to move on because i want to talk about how significant these developments could be and what could come next. Can more be coming next week . Well, listen, just on carter page now, so as we said earlier, i spoke to carter page tonight. He confirms what was first reported in the New York Times and during this visit to moscow in december of 2016 he met with someone who was quite a senior russian official. His name, just to be clear and i wanted to make sure i pronounced this correctly but the deputy prime minister, like i said, carter page describes this not as a formal meeting, but that he met him in the course of an event in which they were both speaking in moscow at the new Economic School of russia. And he described that meeting as sort of a passerby kind of meeting. Met in the hallway backstage before they were both speaking at this event. But to be clear, carter page was on our air just a number of hours ago, jake tapper spoke to had him at length for a number of minutes and asked him a number of questions about whether meetings in this category took place, and he didnt say so. And now we are learning and again, i just spoke to him on the phone him saying yes indeed it again. But again, from his perspective, it is something he does not describe as a formal meeting. That said of interest enough that we know that it was something that the House Intelligence Committee was questioning him about when he appeared earlier this week for a number of hours before the House Intelligence Committee, which is, of course, as part of its investigation looking at russian interference in the u. S. Election. So as part of that questioning, this was a topic that came up, and he faced some hard questions about that. Thank you all. Its been a long week. Get some rest. Recharge because next week i have a feeling will be another long week as well. I appreciate it. When we come back, attorney general Jeff Sessions denied meeting with russians before correcting himself. Is he in legal trouble . Ill ask my experts. Whoooo. I enjoy the fresher things in life. Fresh towels. Fresh soaps. And of course, tripadvisors freshest, lowest. Prices. So if youre anything like me. Youll want to check tripadvisor. We now instantly compare prices. From over 200 booking sites. 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The department of justice . I dont know. Im really not involved with the Justice Department. Id like to let it run itself. But honestly, they should be looking at the democrats. They should be looking at podesta and all of that dishonesty. They should be looking at a lot of thingsment and a lot of people are disappointed in the Justice Department, including me. Lets discuss now. Cnn legal analyst laura koets, former federal prosecutor and john flanry, former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of new york. Welcome to the program. Good evening all. Hi. So, laura, the president is under the gun when it comes to russia, and as usual hes trying to deflect. Today refusing to rule out firing his attorney general and pushing the Justice Department to go after his political enemies. Is it just the latest outrageous statement just meant to distract . I think its probably a distraction and an intentional trying to distract. But i think its also confirmation he really fundamentally misunderstands how this whole thing works. The fact that he is not supposed to interfere with the fbi or Justice Department, not because theyre trying to inconvenience him, but because it is a matter of policy you want those agencies to be independent. They are not the mayor nets of the president of the United States. Theyre supposed to make independent decisions based on their prosecutor editorial discussion. Not about the vengeance or axis grounds by the white house. So, john, former president obama aide tommy beater, if the pris uncovered secret conversations between trump and doj where he pushed the fbi to investigate hillary, it would be a massive scandal. Watergate level. But when he tweets repeatedly, it gets brushed off. Do you agree . What would be the consequences . Well, i do agree with that. Theres like no boundaries for this fella. And its like he deflects a punch by talking about what we should be dog about the democrats. Hes fixed in the same thing in the election that got him into this trouble. That is to say that hes looking for stuff against hillary and he cant get over the fact that the fbi has twice cleared her, and so what does he expect the department to do . But he still talks about it because its the only thing he can latch on to because he cant talk about anything else. And i think secretly or not, hes prepared to do the most boorish things. I mean, he is the original bull in a china shop, and the china shop is our legal system. Interesting. Were now to our attorney general Jeff Sessions denied meeting with russians. Before correcting himself, he also said he didnt know of anyone from the campaign who did. This weeks revelations contradict that. So is sessions in any legal trouble here . Well, i think he is. Thats for reign add da. Sorry. Pardon me. Thats okay. Don, what i would say is mr. Sessions in his testimony before congress did an expert job of avoiding answering questions. He tried to when he was giving the answer that you talked about he tried to qualify it later. I think at one point in the transcript, you know, he did, i think, directly say that you just mentioned. But in many other points he would say, well, when they would ask him, you know, were you aware of meetings with russian officials, hed say, well, i was not aware of any meetings involving collusion or inclusion that would affect the election. He was always trying to qualify them. So, you know, i think that realistically much of what he said sounded evasive but wasnt chargeable. Its possible that there may be a statement or two to congress that is chargeable as a crime. As viewers may not know, lying to congress is a crime. But you have to prove that he knowingly did so. So i imagine the defense is going to be from Jeff Sessions and his team is that he didnt remember at the time. You know, he miss remembered, et cetera. Those cases can be more challenging to prove than you think, and i certainly do think that the attorney general is doing his very best to expertly avoid, you know, being charged with a crime. So, laura, should sessions come back to correct his testimony to congress . Well, i mean, if theyll have him, and im sure theyll welcome it. However, it would put him into greater legal jeopardy for this reason. Selective amnesia really does breed suspicion and increased scrutiny. Part of the role for the fbi and any investigator worth their chaps is to have the hairs on the back of their neck raised whenever somebody tries to qualify statements and give different caveats and contingencies to try to make their statement make sense. And i think thats whats going to get him in the most trouble of all is that he continues to try to give different reiterations of what hes originally said. And the problem it broofs him at this point knowing that he is the top attorney in the land i think earned know better than anyone else that to qualify statements and continue to try to reexplain them would put him in jeopardy and have accusations of perjury be much more supported than they would before. So, john, you want to weigh in . Yeah. One of the things thats interesting about his lack of memory is that he doesnt remember any meetings and then when hes confronted with the meeting with papadopoulos, he says he knows specifically what happened at it and he speaks against the trip to russia. So the meeting he didnt remember. He now remembers what was said at it and its an exculpatory statement as were considering whether or not the campaign is mixing visits and associations with russians during the campaign. So thats the kind of thing you would look at, this kind of selective memory that laura was referencing when you have a person who he remembers no meetings and had nothing to do with the campaign. Now forced to confront things, he grudgeingly admits what hes confronted with and no more. And he now also remembers that he said affirmatively we shouldnt have any trips. And then there are, of course, trips. We talked about this a little bit in the last segment. Cnn has learned that Longtime Donald Trump bodyguard keith shil her will be questioned by investigators about the president s trip to russia in 2013. What kind of questions do you think investigators will ask him . Wow. Well, whenever you have somebody with that level of access to the president , i would think investigators are going to ask him everything that the president heard, everything the president said, everything that the president reacted to or whatever feelings he had. Really trying to get a complete picture of what you know, what the president did, saw, heard and who he interacted with in russia. Someone like that man is very much like a human device to the extent to which hes truthful and forthcoming. John, what did you want to say . Well, theres a very interesting way to do that which follows these categories, which is to take the emails that trump junior had that he first lied about and to drill down with the correspondents with the person who was with trump back in 2013 at the beauty cobb test and with his bodyguard and who is arranging the meeting at trump tower during the election to get the dirt from the prosecutor general of russia by a former prosecutor, russian prosecutor from moscow. Thats really pertinent stuff. And he may, quote, not recall anything, but i think his energy will be focused when the fbi is talking to him. Speaking of what theyre going to ask him go ahead, laura. And here is why the timing is so important. Remember, 2013 is the time that donald trump went to moscow for that mission universe pageant and the bodyguard was accompanying him on that particular trip. You may think to yourself 2013 predates the president ial election and probably before the president of the United States even declared that he was running for office. So why is that important . And thats where you have the domino effect of what happened with muellers indictments for manafort and gates. The idea that during the course of an investigation that was centered around the collusion alleged during the campaign, you have to figure out where the foundation for potential interference would come from. Was there information in the dossier, was it information that it is gleaned in 2013 that would have compromised now president of the United States in a way that would have made his team more susceptible to being involved in collusionment so youve got manafort and gates indictments and youve got muellers team who really is following their charge of anything that arises out of the course of thifr investigation, theyre following the money and now theyre following the passports. Thank you all. Appreciate it. When we come back, the president attacking one of his favorite targets. Guess who . Hillary clinton and clintons own party may be giving him the am mow. Whuuuuuat . Rtgage offer from the bank today. You never just get one offer. Go to lendingtree. Com and shop multiple loan offers for free free . Yeah. Could save thousands. You should probably buy me dinner. No. Go to lendingtree. Com for a new home loan or refinance. 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There are a lot of people on the trump side of the fence who thought Hillary Clinton or podesta were going to be indicted this week. And the fact of the matter is mueller laid out one card. Hes got a whole hand full and frankly has probably got a royal flush in here. And these guys have had a catastrophic week and the ones that dont understand that are just too dumb to figure it out yet. This has been extraordinarily bad for this president and the fact that hes going to asia for a week is a nice escape route for him, but i dont think it stops the grinding process here. And trump is going to be very nervous, especially about hope and about schiller. Ed, im looking at you. Well, don, i mean, look, rick has been locked into a mode for a year and a half. I mean, this is one of the best weeks when they look back on this week, were going to talk, don, about how this is the week the democrats lost the 2018 election. The exposure of the cheating by Hillary Clinton at the dnc makes it clear you cant trust the democrats. And then by the way that would be like a farther in a hurricane. Hold on. Listen, let me finish. Listen, let me finish. Its very simple question. Who do you trust, democrats or republicans . Not donald trump. But wait a second. Don, you asked me a question. This president this week confirmed five judges, conservative right wing judges that rick wilson says he confirmed five this week. The announcement today was the best jobs report that anybody could see coming. Unemployment is down. You guys are missing a great presidency. Youre juggling a lot there. God love him. It was about the russia investigation. But to his point. Well, don you were asked about the week. Its a great week for trump. Yeah, okay. Its a great week. Its not been a great week for donald trump. And no amount of spin in the world theres no spin. Can manufacturer that. I agree that the jobs numbers are up, that nasdaq, dow, everything is up. Five judges. Im not here for those right wing judges because i really do care about criminal justice reform. But i will tell you is you can talk about the job numbers, but that builds on the enormous success of the bum legacy. He has no major legislative accomplishments. The republicans are fighting on the hill about what to do about tax reform. Folks are still talking about repealing and replacing obamacare. And this white house is yelling oh, no one has anything to do with collusion or russia and everybody who has ever been on the trump payroll it seems like is being paraded in front of the special counsel. So this is definitely a problematic week for this white house. You know how you know its a bad week . Donald trump is on twitter. Hes attacking his own attorney general. Hes attacking the Justice Department. Hes attacking the fbi. He does that all the time. He does it all the time. Hes attacking the fbi. Hes attacking the u. S. Military judge. Hes attacking Hillary Clinton, barak obama. He recycled the old attack against poe cohan tass, elizabeth warren. Hes on a tirade on twitter today because he really literally is understanding that his presidency is disintent greating before his own eyes. Bob corker who has already been a critic cam out today and said this is totally inappropriate. At what point will republicans start to realize that just calling something totally inappropriate, you have to take action. And just one little comment about those jobs numbers, theyre actually down from where they were last year. We had more jobs created in the first ten months of 2017 than 2017. Stay with me, everyone. When we come back, Hillary Clinton is putting herself in the spotlight again, but is she playing into trumps hands, giving him a target . Today, a focus on innovation in the Southern Tier is helping build the new new york. 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Sim own sanders, you first. Theres been a lot of talk about the the revelations in Donna Brazils book where she writes that the dnc and Clinton Campaign had entered into a fundraising agreement that gave the Clinton Campaign a great amount of control over the party because she had locked up the nomination. But today the mmo obtained by cnn, we learned that the agreement was meant only for the general election, not the primaries, and that both campaigns had signed the same agreements. We discussed that last night, both campaigns had signed the same agreementsment so what happened here, sim own . Well, what ill note both campaigns did sign a joint fundraising agreement with the Democratic National committee. The difference between what we signed and the agreement everyone has now seen at this point details some language about staffing, oversight, fundraising and some research stuff and all of these things were signed into and codified into, if you will, contract in september of 2015. But what ill say, whether it was Hillary Clinton, papa smurf, booboo the cat or whatever, that agreement that the dnc entered into was improper. So yes or no, was it rigged . Well, look, somebody had the thumb on the scale, the dnc for Hillary Clintons campaign, yes. But were the prime aersz themselves rigtd, no. Because if you know anything about the democrtic primary process, thats not how it looks. Elizabeth warren, she left no doubt about what she thinks. Very quickly, snore, do you agree with the notion that it was rigged . Yes. All right. Was it rigged or was it just hillary being hillary . Ed . Oh, look, i think youre asking me or rick . Go ahead, rick. Sorry. Sorry, rick. Look, this is classic clinton. Shes method cal, shes plodding. Shes an appear arachic. And of course they were going to do this. Of course they were going to go and make these arrangements for fundraising. Both parties make these arrangements with candidates in the general. Both parties do these kind of operations. Its not really surprising. I didnt find the brazil revelations all that shocking or disturbing. Its just sort of like, you know, but obviously these scandals that are building up, theyre going to lead to the impeachment of president clinton anytime now because thats obviously all that donald trump can think about is how hillary is just ruining this country as president. Its time for Robert Mueller to really go after the real criminal here which is Hillary Clinton. Two things. I had the same when i heard the thing i was like didnt we go through this through the campaign because bernie sappeders and his folks said all the time that it was rigged. And some of this stuff was pointed out. The other thing is appear aratchet is one of my favorite words. And you used that. Im going to send you a bottle of wine. Hey, don, i want to Say Something more broadly. I think maybe rick will agree with this. Both parties have been what we say as corrupt. Both parties are used as Money Laundering entities. I was on the rnc from 2013 to 2015 and i kept saying the same consultants are making millions of dollars to do things like data and media buys and theyre putting their thumb on the scale for a system that faird jeb and marco. Donald trump blew that up. It was extraordinary. And Bernie Sanders almost did. When the American People, both parties, remember, sanders got millions of and votes. They look at the party system and they say theyre both corrupt. And the people are right. And i think youre going to see the democrats have to face it sooner, but the Republican Party is not exempt. Trump does not have control of this sort of consulting class that makes money by laundering money through these parties. And its a huge problem. Clinton kept a very low profile in the immediate aftermath of the election. These days she is much more visible now. Here she is on the daily show criticizing President Trumps leadership style. Watch this. You know, of course he can have his own point of view and push his policies. That goes with the job. Right. But not to continue to divide americans against each other. So he just doesnt have any empathy, and you can za grie with somebody overall kinds of partisan issues, but you want to have a president who can try to put himself into the shoes, the feelings of somebody else. Right. And he has not been able to do that. And this question is by no means a criticism. Hillary clinton is a private citizen. Shes free to go on tv and speak as much as she wants. But do you think that she is giving President Trump and republicans the ammunition they need to distract to point away from russia, because the polls will show that people dislike Hillary Clinton, republicans, more than they like donald trump. Yeah. And he knows that. Donald trump is going to attack Hillary Clinton regardless of whether she has a book tour or whether she says something or doesnt Say Something. Remember when the Harvey Weinstein story broke they said how come Hillary Clinton didnt speak up in the first 72 hours. Well, now as soon as Hillary Clinton does Say Something, well, why is Hillary Clinton speaking. You cant have it both ways. You cant see look, the election was 360 days ago, and donald trump is still relitigating that election from 2016. Oh, my gosh. Has it been that long . Its high humor for Hillary Clinton to talk about people with empathy. If theres one thing the American People know she has no feeling for people, okay wait. Hold on. Hold on. Thats totally hold on a second. Let me Say Something. Thats totally obvious. Shes the one who helped to get the Childrens Health insurance bill oh, give me a break. Shes somebody who doesnt have i empathy or concern for people. Dont just go calling somebody crooked because donald trump says it. Use some original although. Im saying it. Shes a loser. I think no. No. Wait. This is a personal attack. Both parties are making mistakes to make Hillary Clinton these are the facts. The fact of the matter is the she lost. Thats the fact. Be quiet. No. No. Hillary clinton the fact of the Hillary Clinton would be the first woman to be the candidate for a major president ial party. Rigged. It was a rigged primary. She rigged it. She cheated. Im sorry. I worked there. Are you going to literally sit here and tell me about what i experienced . Im literally telling you, one, Hillary Clinton has the right to be in this space. Were not going to tell her to shut up. Were not going to tell Bernie Sanders to shut up. And two, i too it wasnt rigged. The people have their hands and maybe their whole foot on the scale, yes. But knowing that i worked there, our campaign made calculated decisions that resulted in us not being victoryous. And Bernie Sanders. Yes. Bernie sanders, our campaign. We made calculations decisions that resulted in us not being victoryous. Now, were things happening at the dnc that contribute to us not being victoryous, yes. But were they the main factor, no. And i do not want to continue to relitigate the 2016 election. I think its more that as we move forward we preserve the integrity of our democratic process. I agree ive got whoa, whoa. Rick, i have to say its interesting to hear democrats say, yeah, they think that things need to be changed, that their thumb was on the scale but by no means did it cause Bernie Sanders to lose the nomination. You dont hear republicans saying the same thing about the russia meddling in our election. They just keep saying its fake. Theres a difference there, isnt it . Nuance. Well, look, the folks around trump have built this entire art i physician up and their entire argument rests on the dossier is fake, all the investigations are fake. All the intelligence agencies are lying. Russia never did anything. Theyre perfectly nice people. Vladimir putin is a swell guy and donald trump is the only one telling the truth in this entire process. And as you can already see, that art i physician is falling apart. That he had i physician is cracking. There is nothing that is going to sustain them through this except, you know, the pretend fantasy bubble, the her metric bubble around donald Trump Supporters where they think everything theyre going to find piles of evidence bob mueller has got a mountain of evidence about donald trump and russia and about the campaign and russia and about russias attempts to manipulate the election. Ive got to run. This is not going to go well for them. Thank you. When we come back, enough blockbuster news in the past week to last a month and most of it hasnt been good news for the president. But what do people across the country think . Our radio guys will fill us in next. Everyone deserves attention, whether youve saved a lot or just a little. 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It was prepared to say it was mixed because hes going to take credit for the job numbers, but before john gets started, lets be honest. He inherited great job numbers that were given to him by president barack obama, much better situation than barack obama got. A good week there. If i were in the trump camp, i would be bragging about that. We can put that aside. Let me tell you, when you get three people on your campaign, and please, john, do not say that the one young man was nothing more than a coffee boy. Coffee boys do not sit in high level meetings two or three times. The reality is any administration in their right mind would know this is serious and more is to come. The other thing that i think and i will conclude by saying this tax proposal that he is presenting to try to sell to the American People around 1100. Thats 3. 20 a day. You tell me what most people can do with 3. 20 a day and thats on average. So all in all, maybe its a good thing hes leaving the country. John, a New Washington post poll shows half of americans believe President Trump likely committed a crime in connection with the attention. Is he failing to convince americans. There is nothing there. Maybe they are watching cnn as you guys blast him 247. Thats skewing the poll numbers. Joe, that is so elitist and so new york and so im making 400,000. What is 1,000 mean to a family of four . Joe is in virginia, by the way. So do i. Joe, we have so many working people whether its virginia or anywhere. 100 a month when you are making 60,000 with a family of four, these are working people. Thats a car payment. Its football practice. Its baseball shoes. Oh, john, its all of the above and sometimes they both come at the same time and then these wealthy people can take the elitist view. Excuse me. You want to take the elitist view. When you give billionaires 400, 500,000. Thats the elitist in the group. You are right. It is a payment on a car or a cell phone. Sometimes they all show up at one month. Joe, the tax plan of donald trump has nothing to do with tax breaks for millionaires. Actually taxes for people who makeover 1 million are going up significantly and they have that new rate in there that takes this into account. This is a tax cut for middle class working americans which is the trump revolution. You just refuse to understand. John, please stop. John, please stop. The question was a New Washington poll Shows Nearly Half of americans believe President Trump likely committed a crime in connection with the Russian Election meddling. The president has been trying to deflect and distract attention, but im wondering if he is failing to convince americans. There is nothing there. The same polls that predicted that Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide are saying this. Its all nonsense. Fake news. Fake polls. There is don and joe. I know you are going to be disappointed. Im not disappointed. Im just asking a question. Im answering. 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