Michael Smerconish tackles the American political and news stories of the week, offering only one kind of talking points his own. I would be remiss if i did not say it in the outset. Here you are of another summer of extreme weather. Well, we can talk about that in a second, lets talk about this whole question of coverage of trump. I dont know who was the moron from fox news who made that point of how did that work in 2016. Thats the question that i would ask is how is it working in 2018 . What happened in 2016, donald trump was running against Hillary Clinton. We know there were a lot of moderate democrats, suburban women, and just enough that in a choice between trump and hillary ready to say, Really Dont Like Hillary and i think i will take a chance on trump. What has been happening over the last two years . Trump has been locked at 43 approval and around 50, 53 disapproval. I think wonderful key reasons for that, and we saw in the alabama election and the pennsylvania election and
Heartbreaking situation. Ellison barber is in washington following the response and federal officials and the white house. Less big with jeff paul on the ground in seattle with the very latest. What is the latest on the situation on the suspect that apparently killed himself behind the controls of the stolen airplane . Reporter i want to give a little bit of a better idea what it is like at our location. We are in washington, behind us is the entrance to the ferry. That is we have to take over to get to the site. Now Authorities Say it is sparsely populated island with very few people and they do not believe anybody on the ground was hurt. During the plane crash. We are also learning more about how, a little more about the man that stole the plane. Authorities say is with the airline for more than three years and passed all extensive
background checks. The fbi tells us he was allowed to be in the Security Area and they do not believe any security safeguards were compromised. They say w
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Personal purposes. On the other hand, if it came out of a Donald Trump Trust fund, which i understand weisselberg also manages, it might not be any kind of a financial tax crime. So hes somebody who has very, very Important Information which could be helpful to the prosecutors. Not only in the cohen case but if they want to dig deeper into the Trump Organization. And weisselbergs cooperation seems to be limited to the cohen probe. What would prosecutors need to call weisselberg back and ask him to provide information about other potential crimes . Well, i think you know, what always happens in these federal investigations, and we saw it in the manafort case, when they start looking at a particular issue, sometimes they stumble across other things that turn out to be criminal in nature. Thats, i think, one of the reasons why the president is probably as upset as he has been sounding this week. Once they start looking into the
A morning show that highlights the latest headlines in news, weather, sports and entertainment, and is known for the cohosts casual and spontaneous. He had all the information on democrats. He had all the information on everybody, he went to jail holding the hands of the Justice Department or the fbi. They sat there together. They were smiling and laughing. And he got nothing. And he stole money and he had more information on corruption of the democrats than anybody and they dont even have his computers and his servers. They just gave him nothing. You saw that it was on your show. They gave him nothing. Nothing. Ainsley double standard . Double standard . I mean, he was worse than anybody, in my opinion. He got nothing. Hes a democrat. He got nothing. The reason he got nothing is because the dems are very strong in the Justice Department. I put an Attorney General who never took control of the Justice Department. Jeff seghtsdz. Never took control of the Justice Department. Its sort of
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Lets take a look. This whole thing about flipping, they call it. I know all about flipping, for 30, 40 years, ive been watching flippers. It almost ought to be outlawed, its not fair. If somebody defrauded a bank and hes going to get ten years in jail or 20 years in jail but if you can Say Something bad about donald trump and youll go down to two years or three years which is the deal he made, in all fairness to him, most people are going to do that. And ive seen it many times. Ive had many friends involved in this stuff. Its called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. It almost ought to be illegal, barbara . What is that telling you as a former prosecutor . I think its an appalling statement. He calls it flipping. I call it telling the truth. When someone has information about criminal liability and they want to plead guilty, if they want to go under oath and tell the truth they get something in chanexchange for t. Thats how o