putin wants chaos. they re better. putin doesn t care about public opinion, about parliament approval, about anything. so he can move forces and money around just pushing a button. and the fact is that america is now leaving syria, the middle east, and looks very vulnerable, fragile, that helps putin with his strength at home. i would say you re from the more hawkish wing, the more anti-russia wing, does it still exist? i think it still exists. i think we have seen votes that suggest that it exists, but it is shrinking. it switched because of trump. the line up of partisanship has pulled them in a different
details, but i guess they were caught by surprise, but they tried to get benefits out of that and i think november and december it was michael flynn still being in the picture. especially lifting sanctions and recognizing crimea. but if trump goes down, does putin realize that is probably suddenly taking a massive step back when it comes to his attempt to manipulate the rests? i think it is pushing trump into the white house, a great kjb success, but also a miscalculati miscalculation. now they tried to be on the appeasement side and now it is hawkish. i think it will not take much time for republicans to go back
time now for the lid. panel is back. carol lee, peter baker. i want to put up a full screen of somebody s work today that peter baker is familiar with. it happens to be from the new yorker, and susan glasser s washington letter. it was her lead that sort of got me and it sort of gets us into the shutdown here, guys. almost every day since trump was elected someone somewhere has asked if this is the constitutional crisis we have been waiting for. was this firing of the fbi director james comey in what seemed to be an effort to stop the investigation to his chain the constitutional crisis? or is continual talk of firing the special counsel or is actual firing of the attorney general days before the midterm elections when trump deployed thousands of troops to the border to combat a nonexistent
changing stories, there may be a reason they have to change their story, their client is not telling them the truth and they re learning more. it is fairly typical for defense council. so the information is circulating in the defense team overall. we also know that manafort s lawyers were communicating with bob mueller, so yes, they are learning things they may not have heard directly from president trump. if mueller has this, and i think this is what you hear from members of congress and i even heard on the republican side, it is sort of like we have to get on with this. one way or the other. this is incredibly serious. will we wait another six weeks
not to, is there anything to correct in the story. i can t help you on that, chuck. i m just going to say read the story and they have written about their sources and other corroborating evidence, and i can t confirm anything. i have no independent knowledge by the way. mr. cohen s conversations with mr. mueller, i did not attend those meetings, so i can just tell you what we came up with last night which is simply a no comment. when it is the last time you spoke to him. an hour ago. what is his reaction to the public s story. he just had surgery on his shoulder. i just saw that, it was a bone spur. i was going to say it was a fistfight with president trump, but it wasn t even worth joking