but we ve actually been working very hard on the 18 election and the 20 election coming up. thank you very much. president trump doesn t seem worried today about what the russians might do in future american elections. and he is certainly not at all worried what they did do in the 2016 election. today the daily beast reports trump lawyer michael cohen received inside info from a russia probe. according to the daily beast, someone leaked information about witness testimony before the house intelligence committee to michael cohen s attorney december 2017, and the leak suggests that some people working on the committee investigation may be trying to covertly assist one of the president s closest allies when the president s inner circle is a focus of the probe. joining us eric swalwell, a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. good evening, lawrence. i want to get your reaction to this idea that t
sophisticated processes and manage highly talented teams who actually are giving you advice you listen to and high-end feedback are not they ve never been part and parcel of his own resume. and they certainly haven t been hallmarks of this white house. tim o brien, thank you for your valuable perspective on the history of trump world and how things have worked and how they work today. and mckay coppins, thank you for your invaluable contribution to our understanding of the nunberg affair. really appreciate you joining us tonight. thank you. thanks, lawrence. coming up, donald trump s utter ignorance about tariffs and his belief the trade wars are easy to win is not just an economic issue, it s a national security issue. robert reich will tell us what the president needs to know about a trade war. and later, stormy daniels is back in donald trump s life. this time stormy daniels is suing the president of the united states. and the president still hasn t denied a single thing
this is not the time where we want to have economic warfare with our neighbors. and by the way, the number one source of our steel from foreign sources is canada. so unless canada has suddenly become an enemy of the united states, and it may be under this president. he is capable of this sort of thing there. is no national security threat. if canada is not going to go to war with the united states and withhold steel from us. so the whole thing is preposterous. listen, if you wanted to say china is doing x, y, and z, there is evidence that they are dumping in this, this, and this regard, you could actually have an intelligent conversation. but with trump, that s impossible. he takes everything to a level of lunacy and nonfact that it makes this kind of conversation impossible. and even the steelworkers union says this tariff should absolutely not be applied to canada. professional robert reich, thank you very much for joining us. really pretty it. thank you, lawrence. jennifer, pl
governments to fleece themselves and their businesses. and we also find in the the special prosecutor might find in his investigation a money trail of foreign money through mr. nader going into the trump campaign. well, yes. and i meant to enrich themselves and their businesses. but what we want to know, of course, and the only way to find fought money was going into the trump campaign is to be willing to subpoena these records. our investigation goes like this, lawrence. you sit in a chair. we ask you a question, and then we say well, that s interesting. we have no way of testing if you re telling us the truth or not because we re not going to subpoena your telephone logs. we re not going to subpoena your chat records. we re not going to subpoena your bank records. we don t know erik prince if what you did in the seychelles is what you say you did because we re not going to go after your travel records. all things we have access to, but we don t want to know. that s the republic
own party, republicans who have responsibility to the public are not willing to say this is wrong, stop it, change the rules. we are going to take authority back from you. if that s not going to be the reaction among republicans, it s as if we had a mad king. and all his court years and ministers around him refused to stand up to him because he was mad king. that just makes things worse. and jennifer we have defense secretary mattis who seems to be making the right argument here. but is he making to it the right people? he is making the argument to the trump administration trade officials. there is no reporting that he is making that argument about national security directly to the president. we don t know. and he may have. and trump may have ignored him in this case. but it s absolutely the case that trade inextricably bound up with international security. that s why you had seven or eight former secretary of defense who are in favor of tpp which was also shelved.