took them to mention things. there s no love lost. yeah. it s petty politics will help trump in 2020. you know, all of this acrimony from the clinton side. if it doesn t keep bernie from getting the nomination, it will hurt him in the general election. if he doesn t get the nomination, everyone that is supporting him is just going to say the democrats rigged this against him again. so what is the point of voting for the nominee in 2020 against trump? this pettiness is not going to help democrats next year. charles: you wonder who will be the biggest person. sander was asking advice of hillary. it disappointed a lot of people. nick mirell said i don t know
and as michael steele said, he started scratching at that last night. number four, which 20/20 democratic presidential democrats will go to georgia and florida and what will they say? either of those two democrats in georgia and florida, if they win, then they become king makers in 2020. and number five, can a combination of the hillary/obama/bernie sanders coalition be created and be brought together to help democrats win? that remains the big question. mike barnacle, that s a question that s going to determine the fate of so many of these democratic candidates. can you bring two sides of this democratic party that split apart, the bernie side and the clinton side, that split apart, can you bring them together and in 2018 can everybody work together to help democrats win
and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it s the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. martha: breaking tonight, evidence that both campaigns in 2016 wanted some dirt on each other and were willing to get it in some sources from russia. but now there is a judge that wants to know how it works on the clinton side of the equation. they used sources in russia who gave information to christopher steel, much of which was unverifiable. on the trump side you have the trump tower meeting in june of 2016. tonight, the trump lawyer michael cohen dropping more bombs. now he says that they knew all along about the meeting though cohen said the opposite in the past. this is what the president said today.
for being open and honest and transparent to the american people. the nonsense needs to stop. now he is telling a different story. our own catherine herridge interviewed the russian lawyer and he said we didn t talk about the hillary clinton. the whole e-mail setting up the meeting was nothing but a pretext. martha: way to get the meeting. exactly. the russians could actually publish the communist party newspaper a story about hillary clinton and the corruption replete with documents. and any american campaign would be allowed legally to use that. it would be a vital american interest. it s protected by the first amendment. it s not a crime. martha: i m seeing on both sides of this equation. you have two campaigns who were willing to accept some information. donald trump jr. thought he was going to get some dirt and said oh, well, if you have something, come on over and tell me what you have. and on the clinton side, they paid fusion gps to get russian
whatever findings mueller has. i think in crassly political terms this report ends up being helpful to president trump in his conflict with robert mueller. there are going to be arguments that are more in favor of the clinton side of thing that comey was unfair in criticizing her in july of 2016. that the letter to congress shouldn t have been released in october of 2016 and that hurt her. but those are just another institution making the arguments we are bakecally familiar with. the new information that jumps out here is the texts, where strzok is saying no, we are going to stop it. that s memorable, dramatic, and it is new, and it is vastly going to help this president. this is where the shiny metal object of our political culture now the way social media works, context gets lost. right. right. and those texts are going to end up in presidential tweets. i m sort of surprised they haven t yet. i know, everybody everybody is waiting for the press conference with chris w