york one is different for on reason and that is that the unite states justice department ha already looked at these fact about trump and the payment of $130,000 to stormy daniels, it has concluded that donald trum directed the illegal campaig finance payments before th 2016 election. they made that a formal filing in court of the michael cohe case and so it is not surprising to me that prosecutors now in new york are acting on it. the most interesting thing about that prior doj finding s it was not the merrick garland justice department or the obam justice department it was donald trump s ow justice department that file that informal documents in federal court saying the called him individual number one, but we know it was donald trump. they say he directed his legal finance payments and that ther were fees to michael cohen as
that - it can t be squared. the problem for people lik mike pence another republica elected says that they have to get past the primary voters. they have to get past the most fevered segment of the republican party, who will believe anything in order to run in a general election. so of course, once you traffic in all this craziness, then yo have to face the voters who, a you said, want no part of this harry, there s a call for accountability as it relates t 16 there s also accountabilit likely coming from a different direction. alleged hush money payment t stormy daniels ahead of th 2016 election might actually b around the corner. you have trump s former lawyer testifying before a grand jury in new york tomorrow what do you see this handing
in all this craziness, then yo have to face the voters who, a you said, want no part of this harry, there s a call for accountability as it relates t 16 there s also accountabilit likely coming from a different direction. alleged hush money payment t stormy daniels ahead of th 2016 election might actually b around the corner. you have trump s former lawyer testifying before a grand jury in new york tomorrow what do you see this handing and on what kind of timeline - certainly i would say now, alicia, not home - not even almost certainly. invitation with trump to testify this week is the final step that you give a target courtesy that trump will tur down and michael cohen is the sta witness, and he s being put in at the end for maximum impact. also to make sure consistenc with the other witnesses
016 elect after after th 2016 and hillary clinton. arthel: jared kushner is under scrutiny for his business deals. this comes as the president gets ready to impose new tariffs and steel and aluminum. but he s facing backlash from both sides of the aisle. i think it should be done much more carefully. there is a difference between steel and aluminum. we do have a significant problem with aluminum and steel. china supplies 4% of the steel in the u.s. no trade war has ever worked. we don t want to make america
china or lots of other people. imagine if he had dismissed claims of al qaeda s responsibility as a hoax and said that he really believed osama bin laden s denials. imagine if he saw the attacks primarily as a political embarrassment to be minimized rather than as a national security threat to be combatted. imagine if he threatened to fire the investigator trying to find out what happened. that s roughly where we stand after the second-worse foreign attack on america in the past two decades. the russian subrerversion of th 2016 election did not, to be sure, kill nearly 3,000 people, but its longer-term impact may be even more corrosive by undermining our faith in our democracy. and that s one of the clearest most concise assessments of what s happening now with this presidency that i ve ever read. i personally think it was except your columns, of