money, a few hundred thousand. seems like this is another thing from the gang who couldn t shoot straight. we ve all made inadvertent phone calls, but to the president s lawyer it a nbc news reporter? alex, the level of incompetence and ridiculousny is overwhelming. the idea that the president s lawyer would be talking this way and would be consorting with these two accused criminals, lev parnas and egor thurman, to try to dig up dirt on biden those people are also working for the legal team of this ukrainian oligarch tied to the russian mob this is it s like a bad movie. and rudy giuliani, i don t know what happened to rudy giuliani since he was the mayor of new york city, but he has so embarrassed himself in the way he has acted, the things that he
got obama. you can see the cannibalization has already begun. it s fair to say these people are at each other s throats because it s increasingly apparent that the power of the government was used to tilt the election. we saw the 6th of january meeting, before the president had even been sworn in, we saw that meeting with james comey. the president said he had all of this stuff about the president consorting with russian prostitutes and everything else. i think it s pretty clear from day one, neil, that these people were against this president taking office, against his goals for america, and i m i think what we re going to see is i ve been very impressed with bill barr. i think in his own quiet, dignified way, he s going to make sure these guys pay. neil: one of the things i got out of the interview is the attorney general saying that he did talk to mueller after the report and ask him about why no
even more than that, donald trump, a very different president from richard nixon. in nixon s case he was never accused of consorting with a foreign power. that s something very different. what do you think is different about our politics today. you mentioned the watergate hearings. really, it was the senate republicans and richard nixon s own party who ultimately were the reason why he lost the support he needed to stay in office. what s different from those republicans then and their politicking and willing to go along with it than now. in nixon s case he was dealing with a hostile congress and dems had both houses and he felt he could not miss a trick. as we ve seen in the past couple of months, you can t throw a president out of office if you have the senate, place where a trial would be held dominated by members of his own party who
pro-russian ukrainians at trump s inauguration party. joining me is jeremy bash and matt miller is back. i have to start with you because we, i think, share in the responsibility that if we ever normalize a seasons like robert mueller became suspicious at the alarming number of pro putin u you ukrainians at his inauguration party. throughout the campaigns, throughout the business life, and as he became president of the united states. so consorting, colluding, or
throughout his business life and also as he became president of the united states. on the day he was becoming so consorting, colluding or interacting, and some with questionable integrity, ethics and principle all three of those men convicted felons. yes. i think it s come to the attention of a lot of the authorities here about what actually was going on and whether or not there was any elicit, illegal, criminal activity that might have been taking place by anybody involved. jeremy, can you just pull this thread on what the president s national security adviser, mike flynn, what appropriate role could he have had in meeting with pro-putin ukrainians in and around the inauguration? we know michael cohen pleaded guilty to having pushed lying about his interactions on the business front with russians. and paul manafort now in a world of trouble. they re at the center of the new york times reporting and we know they re of interest to robert mueller this is a massive eff