another day, another investigation involving the president and his orbit, and we are stuck here again talking about this noise. the wall street journal reporting yesterday that according to people familiar with the matter, federal investigators are investigating whether trump s 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of the record $107 million it raised. there s also questions now about whether top donors gave money in exchange for access and influence to top administration officials. this distresses me. the new york times taking it a step further, revealing that quote federal prosecutors are examining whether foreigners illegally funneled donations to president trump s inaugural committee and pro-trump super pac in hopes of buying influence over american policy and this is according to people familiar with the inquiry. here to weigh in, this is going to be a good one. former new jersey senator bob torselli, and chris wilson, and ted cruz campaign aide and
in a place where they owe something. russians have money they want laundered. and they are buying influence. they want to know they are doing their bidding because they have something over them. whether that is blackmail on something sordid. manafort is the only member of the trump campaign facing prison time. all of those indicted are cooperating. numerous other people under scrutiny. don jr., jared kushner, roger stone. mimi, i think this is the first round. it is going to be a ten or 15 round fight. my guess it ends with donald trump.
in a place where they owe something. russians have money they want laundered. and they are buying influence. they want to know they are doing their bidding because they have something over them. whether that is blackmail on something sordid. manafort is the only member of the trump campaign facing prison time. all of those indicted are cooperating. numerous other people under scrutiny. don jr., jared kushner, roger stone. mimi, i think this somebois the round. it is going to be a ten or 15 round fight. my guess it ends with donald
that and i ll take that point, but i think largely this is just about politics. does the president have the right to do this? yes, he does. he almost has more authority in this area than in any other. should he do it? is it the right move? that s going to come down to politics, wolf. if you support the president, you re okay with it. you see these people buying influence in some cases, politicizing in others. is there hypocrisy in that? yes. why? michael flynn despite all his problems kept security clearance along the way. what s the difference? the difference is that the president was okay with michael flynn and he s not okay with these people. so i think it s largely about politics. some of these intelligence officials, as you know, they re potential witnesses in the overall russia investigation, right? right. yes. and i don t think this move would influence that in any way because it will be testimony based on what they knew at the time, not now, so having an
just say if the supposition is true, that the russians are trying to buy influence via an american cousin, and that s a big if. but if that s true, guess what? they didn t buy what they thought they were buying. it did not work. because donald trump has been incredibly hard on russia, incredibly hard on putin. so the idea he that he is putin s puppet is just an absolute charade. steve, the companies have issued statements at least confirming or at least denying some of the things, explaining it i should say, explaining it. so there is no if any of this is true. the companies issued statements explaining this. okay. so just for the sake of accuracy. again, what questions would you have for michael cohen? you know, i would say this. what did at&t pay for? look, the swamp the swamp is deep. all right. that s one question. what are the other questions? no, that would be one of them. the idea of buying influence unfortunately is a washington