so stay here this afternoon to watch that. he said i was so happy to see the confirmation is being revealed. that shows how low the clinton/obama regime went to destroy our democracy and suppress disdents who did not fully support their failed foreign policy. it is quote/unquote smart to say this about your base. an american citizen, if they went to, if someone can prove to me that the justice department, the cia, were all in co hoots with president obama to corrupt the fisa court, i m waiting. you can t walk in to get a warrant, you have to show them something to get it. and the trump administration wants this guy to go away. they don t want anyone to talk they don t need this out there. so, who his constituency is at this point is kind of to that point, they have tried to say he was some hanger-on. i want to go back in time. early in the campaign there were
sometimes it s just incredibly uncomfortable. and uncomfortable? incredible! he got the date wrong, he called the campaign chairman that they brought in to save them, heading into the they called carter page a hanger-on. he is a little bit of a mystery man, fine. but to call flynn a volunteer, as you know from your reporting, i m sure, they begged him to take a job in this administration. flynn wasn t looking for a job. what a credibility fumble. let s get to jeffrey. jeffrey, where does this leave what jumps out at you from all of this? the president is under investigation by the fbi. i mean, that s a big deal. i mean, ask bill clinton what it was like to be under investigation from kenneth star. ask george w. bush h.w. bush, what it was like to be investigated in the iran contra case. it can take over an administration. now, will it lead to any criminal charges against anyone? will anyone have to testify
times, alleging ties between the trump campaign eight russians. schiff referencing specific campaign officials, including former policy adviser carter page and former campaign manager paul manafort. according to steele, it was manafort who chose page to serve as a go-between for the trump campaign and russian interests. manafort, who served as the campaign chairman and who unlike the other campaign officials categorically denies wrongdoing was at one point trump s campaign manager. at the white house briefing today, sean spicer sought to play down manafort s role in connection with the russian probe, dismissing carter page as, quote, hanger-on and describing michael flynn as a mere campaign volunteer. even general flynn was a volunteer of the campaign and then obviously there s been a
i didn t have any contact with russian business people. he was just talking about the hacking. there is a pre-existing investigation into the contacts you re talking about right now. but that s a separate that s a separate matter, though, in terms of the investigations. i don t know how separate it is. i think the thing to remember with trump is that he s always talking to a particular audience, and it s the people in the arena in louisville last night. so when we look at sean spicer, i think this is important to understand, saying that paul manafort was a hanger-on who volunteered for a day and a half and then took off, what they re trying to do, and they ve been very successful at it, the president has, is maintain his connection to his base, as long as they doubt what we re reporting, then none of this bad stuff can be true and they stick with him. that is a staple of trump s political strategy, and so far, it s worked very well. panel, thank you. stick around. we have man
this guy knew that guy in this country and once made a phone call to the other guy, that it was a lot less effective than saying that fisa was abused as a national security tool and we need to get to the bottom of it. selena, what was probably more to the advantage to the democrats is what happened after the hearing in sean spicer s spin, saying that paul manafort wasn t a significant member of the campaign, saying that mike flynn was just a is volunteer, and making the admission that it was good to hear that there was no proof of collusion from these major factors of our government yesterday. just take a listen to this. general flynn was a volunteer of the campaign. and then, obviously, there s been discussion of paul manafort, who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. just so we re clear, i m not dismissing paul manafort as a hanger-on. i was noting some other folks, as jonathan pointed out. with respect to paul, though, and look, i m not looking to