she s been involved with his business setting up websites for him and doing other i.t. work. and so perhaps she s being valued as an informational witness on whatever the connections he had between guccifer and wikileaks and live connections that he has previously acknowledged but now tries to put in a different light. yeah, and it may be, as you said, that she doesn t know the significance of what she has to say. but she s a factness. i don t think robert mueller and his team would go on a fishing expedition asking her what she knows. they believe on what they ve heard from other witnesses or what they have seen in documents that she likely has information of value to them. it may not be the bombshell but it may be a listening between one thing and another so they see her testimony as valuable and it sounds like they ll put her in the grand jury to make sure they hear that information as well. certainly seems if they re going after roger stone, it s over alleged or suspected
right, that you believe was driving this? i just want to be clear, you think this came from the top and this is how he, donald trump, did business? i think it was business as usual for him. quite frankly, erin, part of it was from an administrative standpoint that somebody would listen in. at the time, his administrative assistant, i think she listened to a lot of conversations and i think that was just to keep donald in line. but further, i ve been in the room with him when he s had other people sitting in there and he puts you he doesn t identify that there are other people listening in on the conversation. yeah. so he he has a voyeur piece to him, you know, he does quite frequently. it s interesting when you see a voyeur piece. different types of calls, obviously, but in the room in his office as well. i have to agree with you, he never identifies who is on the call. one would think from a business perspective would never be normal protocol in a business setting. so i wa
business setting. closing a deal, being the salesman. for vladimir putin, it has always been about careful intelligence gathering. what an opportunity for vladimir putin to do a very up front, close up, personal, psychological assessment of president trump, which is something that a former kgb agent would be skilled and trained to do. in addition to the imbalance here, this is a day trip for president trump, flying in today sorry for president putin and leaving tonight. for president trump, it is the end of what has been a lengthy and, at times, bumpy series of meetings across the u.s. typical allies. then getting to this point, where he comes in with what he d say was the strength of the meetings, making nato stronger and so forth, in the voice of president trump. also, at the end of what has been a tumultuous week. does that play into their private time, having the meeting? the president not a detail person, as you were saying, believes that the larger issues, the force of pers
thinking she could do both. you could probably do that as a business setting as she was in the trump organization but now that she has the responsibility to act on behalf of the united states but also protect her father, that s pretty much impossible, especially since her own husband is entangled in all the things we just mentioned earlier. thank you very much, tina nguyen with the vanity fair. richard painter and geoff bennett, thank you as well. leaving the president unglued in one reporter s estimation. fallout may be far from over. the latest on speculation as to who could be the next to leave the white house as the inner circle scrambles for stability. the star of shark tank kevin o leay sinks his teeth into whether we could be headed for a trade war. i m a dream come true for you. you re obviously also humble. that s why they call me mr. wonderful. and if you have heart failure,
somewhere else maybe in madrid or portugal or some other region. you know to follow the political climate is poison for catalonia as business setting many companies have shelved plant investments executives doubt that the new elections alone can and the current crisis they urge both sides to seek dialogue in particular about a decentralization of spanish state power. you data out today by the german statistic office shows wages growing faster than the prices for goods and services leaving workers with more money in their pockets but the stats show the real benefit is actually lower than in previous years that could be set to change twenty eighteen unions are going to negotiate new contracts with many of germany s largest employers. and now to a big win for donald trump the u.s. congress has finally voted in favor of a big presidential campaign promise tax reform advertised as a christmas gift to the american people the new bill will likely not be signed