terms of who actually is the source that comes in there. i think the important point is there was a person put in there because they were trying to figure out in terms of this counterintelligence investigation, it s a defensive counterintelligence investigation, they re trying to find out did the russian government actually penetrate into a presidential campaign. they need to make sure that is not happening. so you re going to take this maneuver for sure. michael, people want to know what the trump campaign was like. we read from the mueller report. papadopoulos contacted trump campaign manager corey lewandowski via linkedin, as one does, and emailed campaign official michael glassner about his interest in joining the trump campaign. on march 2 of 2016, papadopoulos sent glassner another message reiterating his interest. glassner passed on word of papadopoulos s interest to another campaign official who notified papadopoulos by email that she had been told by glassner to introduce pa
when they get back from this week s recess, democrats in congress planning legislation to block the declaration. listen to what adam schiff said yesterday. this is the first time the president is trying to declare an emergency when congress explicitly rejected funding for the particular project that the president is advocating. reporter: now, if democrats in congress do pass legislation trying to block the president s emergency declaration, white house officials said yesterday that the president may veto that. here s the president s chief policy adviser with chris wallace on fox news sunday. obviously, the president is going to protect his national emergency declaration, chris. there s no threat yes, he will veto? he s going to protect his national emergency declaration. this is not a crisis in syria or iraq, but right here. if the president can t defend this country, he cannot fulfill his constitutional oath of
i think we have to go back and look at what his role and how the campaign was structured at that time. i think it goes to show, and we knew this at the time, that the folks who were in position of power were wholly unqualified for the positions of power they were in. whether that s papadopoulos being overseas trying to broker deals with russia, you know, in order to set up a meeting between donald trump and putin. whether you have sam clovis, who was his immediate supervisor who was the chief policy adviser for the campaign where he is in absolutely no position to be that person. i do think there is truth in the middle of it. i do think he was in touch with top campaign advisers. i don t know if they necessarily listened to him all the time, but that doesn t matter. the fact that clovis green-lighted him to do certain things that we look at and say, wow, that is terrible. that is a problem. also what was new in the interview with her, she said the campaign approved him doing an int
low level volunteer who few people knew. that distancing strategy is something we ve seen repeatedly from the president. it s about to be tested in this case. whether or not george papadopoulos was himself an important figure on the campaign, the documents unsealed by the court appear to show him reporting to senior campaign officials frequently about his ongoing interactions with russians during the campaign. the documents that mueller s team have appear to show trump campaign officials encouraging george papadopoulos to keep up those contacts with russians. well, tonight nbc news reports that the person who is described as george papadopoulos campaign supervisor, a man named sam clovis, who was national co-chair of the trump campaign, chief policy adviser to the trump campaign, sam clovis last week met with robert mueller s investigators. and nbc news reports tonight that sam clovis has also testified to the grand jury in this investigation. so if the trump white house decides they
as george papadopoulos campaign supervisor, a man named sam clovis, who was national co-chair of the trump campaign, chief policy adviser to the trump campaign, sam clovis last week met with robert mueller s investigators. and nbc news reports tonight that sam clovis has also testified to the grand jury in this investigation. so if the trump white house decides they want to keep distancing themselves from people who have turned up in the russia investigation, distancing themselves from sam clovis is going to be particularly difficult, given not only that he was a national co-chair of the campaign but also that they have nominated him to a senior position at the u.s. department of agriculture for which sam clovis is supposed to face senate confirmation next week, which is probably going to be very, very awkward now. joining us is joyce vance, former state attorney for the state of alabama, thanks for being here. thanks for having me, rachel. so reading this document tonight that wa