the head or culture of corruption. one of the things that preceded watergate or preceded watergate bringing down nixon, was like oh by the way, vis presidece presi getting bags of cash. in the case of nixon, you have this corrupt president, and it says something about the kinds of people the president selects. as they say, birds of a feather flock together and the same thing that happened in the nixon administration where you had a lot of cash flowing overflowing saves in the white house. and the same thing is happening here, you have cohen, gates, and manafort all underreporting
examination. here you ve got paul manafort who s being accused of all these different crimes, even with his opening statement through his defense counsel said listen, you cannot believe this person rick gates. he s got a plea deal, he has every incentive to not tell you everything that is true because he wants to get a good prison sentence or none at all so we have this battle right now. while they have framed this in a battle of credibility, birds of a feather flock together and a jury will look at this and say we have somebody here who s admitted to lying, who has been in on this conspiracy to try to evade having pay his taxes to uncle sam unlike the rest of us and he s admitted to stealing from paul manafort. but wouldn t you expect somebody who is doing the criminal activity that manafort has been accused of to have associates who also do criminal activity?
grifting money, pruitt. everyone that comes into trump s orbit comes into scandal, whether it s because the spotlight is on him or that s the people he surrounds himself with. combination of both? birds of a feather. george, the numbness. i m concerned yeah it s been going on, going on. we re at new totals of it going on. it was it was shoplifting in the 70s and 80s. this is grand theft. i don t mean to it feels like we it s like they got away with it for so long. they said, boy, we ll go all in. there is a point at which a difference of degree becomes a difference of kind. however, let me say this to my progressive friends. big, intrusive, administrative state, the government we have, inevitably redistributes wealth upward. there is a reason why five of the richest counties in america are in the washington metropolitan area. big government is opaque, it s
still having successful going concern. with that table set, fred, we re going to get into the testimony of rick gates next week, and as laura said, it will be a question of was this just gates acting on behalf of the firm or was manafort dialed into this all along and aware of everything that was going on that s being alleged by prosecutors and some of the other witnesses. the inferences of birds of a feather is big here. matt, the president ran on the issue of draining the swamp. cnn steven colinson wrote this about the trial. for those outside the courtroom, it is a turning into an implicit indictment of the sleaze and greed swirling around washington itself and the culture of influen influence that cut contracts to counsel shady foreign autocrats. this case, this draining the swamp philosophy is widespread.
anybody on the stand or put them in his report if he doesn t think they re being truthful. michael cohen might have had a come to jesus moment, especially here on sunday, and decided to seek the truth and be an american hero, you don t know. but he s had lying problems in the past. as far as giuliani, they say you can t con a con man, and rudy giuliani should have known what michael cohen was because they re birds of a feather. what about the chances that donald trump jr. could be brought back to congress and the level of trouble that he might really be? ? can you weigh in on that? only in the senate. the house will not do it. the house judiciary committee has done nothing to look at election interference and nothing to look at the trumps. the one committee that should be working on this has done nothing. he had testified before, i think, senate and house intel both, and he may be called back.