witch hunt has now become not just something that shows up in the president s tweets but repeated from the white house podium and a description of legal investigation endorsed by republicans and democrats. a shorthand. doesn t bother saying mueller probe, it is the witch hunt, which is taken from the president s tweet. they could dismiss the president s tweet as letting off steam but it s become official moniker endorsed by both republicans and democrats. so the president s words do matter. they are repeated from the white house podium. another sensitive issue, day two of the paul manafort trial, federal trial in alexandria, virginia, federal trump campaign chairman and the president weighing in on twitter making all sorts of references to the way al capone is treated, paul manafort is being treated. she said, sarah sanders, i think paul manafort is treated unfairly. it s unusual during a criminal trial for the president of the united states to weigh in.
that the president is making. tweeting about bob mueller and his attorneys, i guarantee you, jay sekulow being one of them, are probably pulling their hair out about this because it s the last thing they want to hear from the president, particularly when they re engaged or sort of engaged with the special counsel about trying to figure out whether the president testifies or not. this is a moment right now, a very critical moment, because on top of all of this, the president is now weighing in. there s a federal trial under way in alexandria, virginia, just outside washington, d.c. mueller and his team are going after paul manafort, the man who was the president s campaign chairman. all of a sudden, the president is weighing in on paul manafort as this trial is just beginning. it s day two. looking back on history, he tweets, who was heated worse. alfons capone, legendary mob boss, or paul manafort, political operative and
responsibly and report accurately and fairly. sarah, nobody was being violent last night. they were trying to prevent a broadcaster from getting a broadcast out and yelling his network sucks. is that right or wrong? i m sorry. what was the first part your question? no one was being violent in terms of hitting anybody and no broadcaster was broadcasting state secrets. they were trying to do standups at a rally and people yelling over them trying. cheri: them from their their jobs. do you support that or not. why we certainly support freedom of the appreciation we support freedom of speech. we think those things go hand in hand. he talked a little about the tweet earlier, also the tweet about paul manafort and comparing his treatment to that of al capone. he seems to say he thought he was being treated unfairly. i guess, first of all, why does does the president feel like paul manafort is being treated unfairly. when he talks about solitary
looking back on history, who was treated worse? alfons capone, legendary okay. hold that for a second. legendary mob boss, killer and public enemy number one or paul manafort, political operative and reagan/dole darling now serving solitary confinement, although convicted of nothing. where is the russian collusion? now putting aside that we ve all taken tours of alcatraz and it wasn t exactly nice digs. what do we make of this? i m putting this to you first,icatelyn. the last thing they wanted was for the from the compare him to al capone. alfons capone. his full name. but we re seeing this. the white house has been saying they don t know what the president s reaction to the paul manafort trial is. they haven t spoken with him about it. but we heard from the president for the first time this morning only on day two of this trial is expected to go on for two or three weeks. what exactly his feelings are as he s watching all of this play