Youd actually expect all the candidates to be pretty aggressively hawkish on russia, particularly after russia had just invaded one of their neighbors. But it was interesting. In that senate primary, that Republican Senate primary in 2014, this one primary candidate, the local talk radio host, he really went the other way. He called himself a former Pentagon Expert on russia and he told radio iowa that, quote, pushing the russians out of crimea is not a realistic option. He said, quote, i think a lot of people, im not sure they understand the history of russia. You go back, you know, 1,500 years to the foundation of the russian empire. It actually started in ukraine and was evolved out of that. This whole issue is about as russian as it gets, meaning russia should be allowed to take parts of ukraine. Thats russias business, not anybody elses. And this candidate apparently felt pretty passionately about it. He went on in some detail,
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making their way back to washington this evening where they will be attending the gridiron dinner, which is a longstanding tradition where the president and washington-based mostly journalists kind of poke fun at one another, and we will see how that goes later on this evening. thank you so much. ryan nobles there outside of the white house with that frightening moment there outside of the white house. meanwhile, president trump and his family and closest advi advisers are facing questions amid a slew of turmoil and turnover, and now, there is some look into ivanka trump s dealings. hope hicks is on her way out after resigning, and jared cu kushner loses his top security clearance. and the list goes on. so let s bring in cnn political analyst who is the editor and publisher of inside politics. good to see you. good to see you. and a lot to chip a wway at,
shortly after that court hearing broke up today, cnn broke this news about senior white house adviser and presidential son-in-law jared kushner that he has turned over documents to special counsel robert mueller s office. we don t know if jared kushner has testified to mueller s inquiry but according to cnn, mueller s investigators have expressed interest in kushner as part of its probe into meddling including potential obstruction of justice in the firing fbi director james comey and also sources telling cnn that, quote, others have asked about jared cu kushner s role in firing james comey. and also, a statement was issued from donald trump jr. at trump tower with a meeting involving donald, jr., and paul manafort and a whole bunch of russian, and also, cnn asked about
aguilar rof business partners of donald trump going back to that 2013 miss universe pageant were seeking to assist trump s candidacy by providing damaging information about hillary clinton. so how extensive was the russian government effort. was this the sole efforts and information to tip the scale or was it it part of this campaign the intelligence community described back in january. april, a couple things. if donald trump jr. thought so little of this why bring in the campaign chairman and top adviser? why bring in manafort and jared cu kushner if if he thought so little of this meeting why would he bring in those people who has
as the special counsel, right? the problem is, and we saw this when kasowitz gave his performance at the press club, which i was fortunate enough to attend, the line between lawyer and flack in this case is really thin, sometimes, as to be nonexistent. it sounded fllike flack yesterday. saw something really interesting today that my paper reported. kushner, and kushner has essentially been the most canny in terms of getting out ahead of this. he is considering hiring the abbe lowell, who you know quite well, as a potential criminal defense lawyer. not saying there ll be a criminal case brought. but i think who wants to hire abbe lowell? jared kushner is considering i thought he had jamie grilligril gorelick? he s considering adding him to the team or firining gorelic. i think they should have