get back. he was stumbling around like crazy! we will show it to you, richard. you look quizzical. we will show it to you, man. come on on back on the track. sessions had this exchange with democratic senator al franken. stop it. about reports on russian ties to the trump campaign. these documents also allegedly say, quote, there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government. if it s true, it s, obviously, extremely serious. and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? senator franken, i m not aware of any of those activities.
year, or two years, has this president and people around him continue to single out russia for what i would call benign treatment? what is motivating that? either you think it s motivated by strategic foreign policy grounds or you think it s motivated by something else and this will reinforce that question. like flynn, sessions was always with trump. one of those guys. he was there from the very beginning. just saying. he was flying around with donald trump the entire campaign. he was he was involved in the campaign in a big way because he knew this job was coming. he was deeply involved in the campaign from the start. he was the first guy on there. willie, we also have to talk about as far as recusal, what does it rise to the level of? here, he had two meetings with the russians which he did not tell the truth about in front of congress when they were specifically concerned about these type of meetings. let s forget about him resigning. let s talk instead about k
so far but still a long way to go. but look. the other thing that you have to remember is a key factor here. trump has basically promised business, the sun, the moon, and the stars. he said you re going to have tax cuts, you re going to have deregulation. anything government is not doing you like come tell us and we will stop doing it. the third thing you re going to repeal obamacare which a lot of most small businesses will like. obamacare is another complexity. the point this is the most pro-business administration, more even than reagan, probably. since coolidge? probably since coolidge. and so, of course, if your profits i have friends who are essentially democrats and run big companies and don t like trump, but they kind of say, steve, look what this guy has done for my stock and what will he do for my business? kind of hard to hate the guy. people on hear that and say rich guys are getting rich. can you talk about the effect
position is. joining us now university professor and director for the center for sustainable development at columbia university, development jeffrey sachs. in washington, michael. good to have you both. jeffrey, your take on the latest developments coming out of mother russia. there are so many links of russia and trump, they are going to continue to come out day by day. like what? one, remarkably wasn t asked by our u.s. congress as they were looking into nominations is the commerce secretary. the commerce secretary is a co-owner of the bank of cypress, a major conduit for russian money, co-chair, reportedly, is a major russian olagark.
a left wing publication that only attacks republicans and this is what upsets me. oh, wait. the two year anniversary of him breaking the clinton e-mail story. can you believe that? you will continue to fail, okay? you would be doing what tim russert always said. make people on both sides think you re the enemy. without fear or favor, we follow the facts. well, we are fearful and willie and i will basically sell our souls for a job at goldman sachs but that offer hasn t come yet. we thank you for holding it up for us. m thank you, michael. great reporting, as always. isn t that incredible? he breaks the clinton server story and he has been all over this too. i mean, on both sides. it s pretty incredible. mark s question is the critical one. in fact, who irm the associates? were they members of the actual trump campaign or were they golfing buddies, business partners? because there was people from