them in a voting majority. i think a lot of people watching the show would say it s been clear for quite some time that there was something going on there, in terms of donald trump and these affinities to russia. and republicans in the house have not only done nothing about it. they slow-walk the investigation. but you had the chairman of the intelligence committee, essentially working for the white house, doing bagman site meetings at the white house to give them an excuse for claiming a lie about the former president that he was wiretapped. why would any of these men, quite frankly, suddenly turn patriot and decide donald trump was who dangerous to be president? well, you know that whole effort by the chairman back fired. it was so ham handed that he had to step down and got new people running that investigation. and the investigation seems to be going reasonably smoothly on a nonpartisan basis. and who knows what director comey might come up with.
intelligence and the kremlin itself, which lends itself to espionage. or even worse, it s a hybrid of the two. you know, denver doesn t say anything negative about vladimir putin because if he owes money to vladimir putin, you know, someone who has a gambling debt never insults their booky, right? donald trump in that respect, this is why we ve wanted to have a look at tax returns. what is the source of the wealth? where it did it come from? was it financed by someone else? do they hold him over a bag, so to speak. that will get you the wonderful question that will answer the wonderful question, why, why does this white house do all of the kremlin s bidding. clinton, i guess that is the question everyone has. it can t be coincidental that this many people surrounding donald trump have connections to russia, affinities to russia. how would the fbi go out answering that question of why? i think they are looking at
who called these protests, he was detained as soon as he reached central mooscow and has been kept in custody overnight. he s a controversial figure, in the sense that he s been accused of affinities with ultranationalists so he s somebody that doesn t necessarily unite the anti-putin opposition in this country, but he s got a brilliant way of cutting through social media of getting people out into the streets and again, here, really tapping into this sense of injustice in this country about the level of corruption in russia. so does this at all reflect the popularity of president vladimir putin? reporter: well, i think from putin s point of view, it s pretty worrying to see thousands of people out on the streets, although at the same time, this is a country of 140 million people. putin s popularity ratings are
surfaced yesterday in connection to this proposal that manafort wrote was known as putin s oligarch, the kremlin s oligarch. he was in the inner circle of the kremlin. he was one of the few people putin trusts. so of course they re trying to distance themselves from this guy. do you get the sense there s so many people around donald trump that had weird affinities and maybe coincide coincidental affinities to russia, do you get the sense paul manafort is the man that brought the russianization of trumpism to the campaign? he started i think in the spring of last year as campaign manager. right. right. the truth is we don t know. he is just the when manafort was fired by trump in august, it was done quietly after news broke about payments that were found ledgers found in kiev that were payments made to manafort under the table and trump dropped him stone cold and quietly in an uncharacteristic fax for trump without a whole lot of fanfare or pushback.
surfaced yesterday in connection to this proposal that manafort wrote was known as putin s oligarch, the kremlin s oligarch. he was in the inner circle of the kremlin. he was one of the few people putin trusts. so of course they re trying to distance themselves from this guy. do you get the sense there s so many people around donald trump that had weird affinities and maybe coincidental affinities to russia, do you get the sense paul manafort is the man that brought the russianization of trumpism to the campaign? he started i think in the spring of last year as campaign manager. right. right. the truth is we don t know. he is just the when manafort was fired by trump in august, it was done quietly after news broke about payments that were found ledgers found in kiev that were payments made to manafort under the table and trump dropped him stone cold and quietly in an uncharacteristic fax for trump without a whole lot of fanfare or pushback.