and no matter where you got your news from because remember, there s also this bifurcated selection news problem that we have in this country. and so, so it didn t matter where you got your news from, you couldn t miss all of that. it was just everywhere. and so that s why i think he took a real it h hit on this, deservedly. and there was no pretense. i looked through the information. the information leading to the unite the right rally, all the iconography and their posters was fascist looking. the people on record were on record saying a lot of racist things. the monument protection society wouldn t join the protest, because they were like, these people are creeping me out. thank you all so much for your time. still to come, the is intensifying russian investigation. what we ve learned. what we still don t know. where the investigation is headed this fall. plus, how many people in this picture still work at the white house? the numerous administration officials who are gone
e-mail would have existed. that seemed implausible and cartoonish and conspiratorial against all imaginings. and it came out and that altered my priors about what i m expecting to come out. but you add to that e-mail exactly the explanation that donald trump wrote for his son, which is so antiseptic they lied. they lied and they put in a statement by kushner, which also dovetails with junior s statement. it s like classic investigation. you get two guys who come in, they give you a totally nonsense story. and then you ve got the opportunity to chip away at it. right. i think there is this psychological issue, though, for a lot of regular americans, and those of us political junkies who are watching this and watching these headlines and being surprised, oh, my god, did we get him? is that it? that s it? right? we now know this happened? which is, is there going to be a point where anybody can say, okay, now a mechanism is going to kick into place. and that s a question, with
and it came out and that altered my priors about what i m expecting to come out. but you add to that e-mail exactly the explanation that donald trump wrote for his son, which is so antiseptic they lied. they lied and they put in a statement by kushner, which also dovetails with junior s statement. it s like classic investigation. you get two guys who come in, they give you a totally nonsense story. and then you ve got the opportunity to chip away at it. right. i think there is this psychological issue, though, for a lot of regular americans, and those of us political junkies who are watching this and watching these headlines and being surprised, oh, my god, did we get him? is that it? that s it? right? we now know this happened? which is, is there going to be a point where anybody can say, okay, now a mechanism is going to kick into place. and that s a question, with i don t know, did people ask that throughout watergate and suddenly there was a mechanism whereby this kicks
revelations about efforts to build a trump tower moscow during the campaign. as the bigger picture starts to come into focus, the question becomes, where does the investigation go from here? we have just the people to talk about that, former watergate prosecutor, nick ackerman, who s been following the russia developments with all summer. rebecca trayster. maria hiddnojosa, and josh barr, senior editor at business insider. nick, let me start with you. you ve been very clued into this and you also have been around, done this rodeo before. how big are the developments of this summer? huge pip mean, the biggest development, i think the key one is the meeting that took place at trump tower, on june 9th. i mean, that is going to be the focal point of every investigation. when we learned that, i had a great moment in the snl skit of lester holt interviewing donald trump, where he like admits he was thinking about russia, with james comey. and michael shea playing lester
personality does matter and it s only going to get worse. and it fuels for him the tremendous victim concept. i find this moment terrifying. the russian investigation circling in, whatever relationships he had with his own party is disintegrating fast. and he gets scary and unpredictable when he s in a corner. and right now what the setup is everybody is after me. the media is after me, fake news. my own party gets in the way of doing this thing we who is we? any and my 30% of people who like me. that s a core base and they want some really scary things. democrats are obstructionists. i m being persecuted. this is setting up a narrative in which he s the ultimate victim of the witch hunt. he s been using that phrase for months. and i think that is setting us up for whatever his view of the next chapter is going to be when it s the whole world against