earnings. in defending the relentless racist take the on ilhan hoe omar. republicans like to deny bigotry by accusing omar of making anti-semitic compensates. but michelle goldberg says this is a ridiculous char aid. on tuesday an evangelical outfit ached the anti-defamation league of siding with anti-semites after the adl called out trump s racism. republicans are only a short step away from shamelessness trying to deflect from the president s racism accusing his foes of anti-submit zbliems joining me now is michelle goldberg. i m glad you wrote the column it s been driving me crazy. and driving many jewish people i know crazy to see
still with jared kushner a little long. i wanted to ask, i mean, john we have seen this president take a tone that is harsh. critical of these russia probes he has tweeted, publicly criticized them, calling them a witch hasn t, a taxpayer funded char aid. now that his son-in-law is under scrutiny, does that change? in terms of just the general picture, we re not argentina he is not perrin. i wish he wouldn t hire his family. i m generally against that have been from the beginning. i still it s not clear what he did that was wrong. if you re a senior adviser to the campaign you re talking to a lot of different people. he has not been accuse of committing a crime hasn t been accuse of breaking a law. when accused of breaking a law committing a crime then to me it s something relevant. but until then it s just more noise. okay i want to let everybody know we are expecting to hear from a victory speech any moment if we have to bail out on a conversation i want to let you know that s
taxpayer char aid. looking into me and the campaign, look i have nothing to do this was set up by the democrats. there is no collusion between me and my campaign and the russians. the other thing is the russians did not affect the vote. and everybody seems to think that. there was an investigation under way though an fbi investigation is that a char aid. i don t know if it s fbi orr if it s there is so many investigations i don t know if it s fbi investigation or if it s a congress, if it s the senate. well james comey testified there was an fbi investigation. but i think they re helping the house and senate. you probably have fbi. but you have house. you have senate. they have other investigations. joining me now senator angus king a member of the senate intelligence committee thanks for being with us when you hear the president talking to lester holt unable to say there is an
more breaking news to report noun the new york times is just reporting on a dinner the president had with james comey i want to read a portion of the times s reporting. as they ate the president and mr. comey smaed mall talk about the election and the crowd sizes at rally the president turned the conversation to whether mr. comey would plejt loyalty to him. mr. comey declined to make that claem. he told mr. trump that he would always be honest with him but that he was not quote reliable in the conventional political sense that is the new york times in the story by michael schmidt up on the site right now mp more now on the president s conversation with lester holt we pick it up on the question of business deals with russia that could present a conflict of interest. there is an investigation underway though an fbi investigation. that a char aid. i don t know if it s fbi or if it s there is so many
need for a special prosecutor is well illustrated by sally yates herself who was fired for disagree wg the president. she was acting attorney general, deputy attorney general under president obama and she was fired when she disagreed with the president. the president has now tweeted out that the investigation is a hoax, a char aid a waste of taxpayer money. what would a special prosecutor independent investigation how would that be different than what we re seeing in the senatance and house. that is the key question what we re seeing in thes house and senate are well bengsed a well organized determined investigations even if they re successful the most they can do is produce recommendations or a report and perhaps a referral for prosecution. they can t themselves take action to hold people accountable. what i hear as i go around connecticut i hear colleagues say from the townhalls is people want to uncover the truth and they want accountability.