time. thank you, neil, again. appreciate it. tip my hat. absolutely. thanks, don. thank you, everyone, for watching. really appreciate it. i m don lemon. our coverage continues. good evening. all roads lead to putin. that is what house speaker nancy pelosi famously said about president trump. tonight there s breaking news on what could be yet another road. the washington post tonight reporting on conversations the president had with vladimir putin and the hungarian prime minister. the headline, putin and hungary orban helped sour trump on ukraine. according to the report, which cites current and former u.s. officials, the conversations reinforced president trump s perception of corruption in ukraine. the post reports neither orban nor putin specifically encouraged the president to see ukraine as a source of dirt on joe biden, nor did they describe kiev as complicit in that conspiracy theory about the 2016 election. however, the post reports that their disparaging descriptio
emoluments lawsuit, crew v. trump. richard, do you get the sense that while the president may have reversed himself, he doesn t seem to think he did anything wrong in the first place and said, in fact, he thinks the emoluments clause is phony? well, he says the emoluments clause is phony. he says judges are phony if he disagrees with them or they happen to the mexican-american judges. he says that democrats in the senate and the house are phony if they want to investigate him. he attacks the press, fake news media. he goes on and on. but the emoluments clause is real. it s in there for a reason. it s there to prevent any person holding a position of trust with the united states government from receiving profits and benefits from foreign governments. and he s been in violation of it since day one of his administration, and that s why we sued him. citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington, when i was the vice chair. that case has now proceeded.