brief, cordial and appropriate despite linda s allegations i made the romantic overtures towards her at that time or any other. nbc has no further comments but i covered most of brokaw s career at nbc. i never heard a whisper or rumor about this sort of thing, married to the same woman for 50 years but if this account is to be believed it shows how these things could have happened allegedly, intimidating younger women, isn t it striking it happens the day bill cosby, icon of a different sort, convicted in the retrial, accused by 60 women. after going through the matt lauer situation, who was accused of far worse, through forcible attempt kissing, nbc it seems has a problem with its culture. this happened in other news organizations including fox. the question is what is nbc
woodward and bernstein from the watergate period. that s what richard nixon was doing as the watergate hearings were up under way, he was fuming this was a witch hunt out to get him. you read that story and it s eerily similar to what we have playing out today. tamara, isn t it striking to know that the mueller and trump forces meet at some point late in the week last week. let s presume trump s lawyers go back to the white house and break it to the boss that this is not going to be over last thanksgiving or new years, and then we see the president go to social media. then we see the president hire the very familiar joe digenova from fox news. i think it had become increasingly clear that the timeline was slipping when it slipped from thanksgiving to new year s to, well, it s late march now at this point. and president trump is bringing on this new lawyer who based on
grand to get salacious information on trump. does that sound like a normal business as usual to you? it does not. as was just noted, it s one thing to go out and spend money, potentially getting information on a sworn enemy of the united states it s another to go out and to spend $100,000 trying to get information on the commander in chief. tucker: presumably according to the times piece, he was selling secrets to anybody, it was information of a sexual nature that s probably not even true. it s also irrelevant. let me ask you this. do youho find it striking that e very people a year ago said anyone who claims trump wasn t spied on by the obama administration is a t nutcase, r alex jones or whatever tinfoil hat type, those same people are now telling us it s totally normal for the administration to spy on a rival presidential campaign, no big deal.
isn t it striking that that s normally where we go? let s assume he is trying to give back to democrat who is tried to slap him with the russia solution and devin nunez is acting in a partisan manner. does this issue seem like something we should want to get to the bottom of and does it seem like a big deal or not and assume that everybody is acting in a political manner. i think it does seem like a big issue and the fact that it happened in 2010 makes it somewhat less relevant, but not irreleva irrelevant. it s something that we should want to know the facts about and are willing to concede that motivations are purely partisan. if there is information no matter how far back it goes, if there is information that sheds light on the deal, favorable or unfavorable or raises or resolves questions, great. let s get it. the question is can this cast of characters get us there? i think it s why the president decided he upons to
today, there s late-breaking news that apparently the information that comprise the now-famous dossier that busby printed, that information was paid for by the dnc and hillary clinton presidential campaign. i m not even sure how to respond to this. it striking, that dossier, even as it appeared at the time, was pretty widely recognized even among media unsympathetic to donald trump as curlers and a lot of it was demonstrably false. this is a pretty shabby piece of business here and if it turns out that, as we now believe, that it was paid for in considerable measure by the clinton campaign and the democratic party this contained within it, allegations about from collusion with the russians. that tends to soil that whole allegation even further. the tide may be no turning in all this in political terms, and