beast reports is preparing for a million dollar or so legal tab. let s turn on our lead-off panel on a monday night. carolyn ryan is with us, assistant editor for the new york times. sam stien, long-time political journalist, politics he had for for the daily beast. and ron a dough measure ratty, a former federal prosecutor who wrote this piece for politico that got our attention today, titled how to read bob mueller s hand. he says currently a lawyer in private practice, we should add. good evening and welcome to you all. sam stien. yes. if manafort gets indicted, that will leave a mark. that will get our attention. that definitely will leave a mark. of course, he s not the big fish, right. he is a fish. he s a big fib, but he s not the big fish. and what this is all leading up to or so it seems is to build enough pressure points on paul manafort so that he will
settling by a congress that s ticked off congress spied on it and americans die, americans who are only trying to protect us, is that right? no. i think members of congress here are trying to rewrite history especially when they were caught in a big fib. nancy pelosi wasn t briefed on this. they use this as an opportunity to rewrite history for their own purposes. but there s nothing that will come and a lot of bad can come with this. we are engaged right now in military operations against the islamic state in iraq, in syria. we re trying to put together, at least the white house is supposedly putting together a coalition to deal with this problem. we do have some issues with some of those allies in the region. this is going to make all of this much more difficult. and it s going to tell islamists around the world, you know what, america is someone you should go after. i m not talking just hard core jihadists, people who already signed up for the islamic state, i mean those on the
settling by a congress that s ticked off congress spied on it and americans die, americans who are only trying to protect us, is that right? no. i think members of congress here are trying to rewrite history especially when they were caught in a big fib. nancy pelosi wasn t briefed on this. they use this as an opportunity to rewrite history for their own purposes. but there s nothing that will come and a lot of bad can come with this. we are engaged right now in military operations against the islamic state in iraq, in syria. we re trying to put together, at least the white house is supposedly putting together a coalition to deal with this problem. we do have some issues with some of those allies in the region. this is going to make all of this much more difficult. and it s going to tell islamists around the world, you know what, america is someone you should go after. i m not talking just hard core jihadists, people who already signed up for the islamic state, i mean those on the
top 1% increase of income take home pay is 247% and middle clashgs over the same 15 years, is 15%? you re saying that s equal? he s saying the numbers are rising up and that s good. it s better for everyone when this happens. when the rich people get richer? and the poor people get richer, yes. before you continue, let me get greg in here first. because you earlier were talking this argument about wealth or income inequality is bogus. because it s not about class. it s not about income. it s about age. the population is getting older. 65-year-old has 15 times the wealth as somebody under 35. how does that happen? because as you get older, you make more money. i am 49. i make a lot more money than i did when i was 19. that is how it works. that s why at 19 you work at mcdonald s and then you work at fox news. it s quite a leap, i give you that, but the fact is, he is president obama is telling a big
intervention mission with a dozen warships, cruise missiles and aircraft, and precision attack missiles, and surveillance drones and more. but that s not a war. that s got to be the definition of a not war. robert hunter is with us, former u.s. arch ambassador with nato. i don t care how we feel about whether this is bad or good, but it is a big fib. they say we are not at war. we are at war. are we not? guest: well, if people say this was covert, they must not have google on their interpret. the united states has been involved in this from the beginning. the very first move that was taken was the movement of nato ships, mostly american, in the area. and the united states has provided reconnaissance. it has provided ammunition. it has had tankers. even it had combat aircraft early on including the c130.