warrant to come into evidence for us to see it publicly? that may be. it may also be that mueller may produce a report to the department of justice making a recommendation about whether or not to prosecute and which crimes. and some of this information may come forward at that point. david kcay johnston and miek eoyang, thank you. coming up, president trump tells us everything he learned about nuclear weapons he learned from his uncle 35 years ago. and live tv. the channels you love. your favorite shows and movies. making your iphone into more of a. oh my tv is ringing. hey.i m in the middle of a.a second iphone from at&t? okay! right now when you buy a new iphone 7 from at&t you ll get a second iphone 7 on us. and power both with unlimited data and live tv. you re searching for something. whoooo.
david, it has been possibly the most troubling week in our last decades of tension with north korea. well, i don t think there s been anything quite like it since the cuban missile crisis in terms of sort of the palpable tension in the air. i think in terms of north korea, you d have to go back to 1994. the clinton administration, real standoff at a moment where we thought this might happen. the problem is we re really close to a critical red-line moment when they have the ability to deliver a nuclear weapon that could hit the united states, and we have in office the least competent, least experienced, most temperamentally unsuited person for this kind of a crisis who has ever held the job. and the message we ve been getting today from the white house and from unnamed aides in the white house is, you can ignore the president. don t worry about what president trump says in situations like this. it s like the scene in the
joining us now, david k. johnston, pulitzer prize winning journalist, and back with us, mieke eoyang. david, the national enquirer obviously for years now has been very, very friendly to donald trump. i ve already said in the show that this article today strikes me as the equivalent of a trump tweet. what do you make of it? well, there s two aspects to this relationship. this case is dirtying up paul manafort. trump knows about this raid, and he is now taking steps to solidify with his base. he can t believe anything about paul manafort. he s a terrible person. he s having an affair with a woman younger than his daughter. the other side of this is the national enquirer has hushed up stories for trump, including making a settlement with a former playmate of the year to make sure she said nothing about her alleged affair with donald trump a year after his marriage to now first lady melania.
and she agreed not to write columns for them, which we never saw, and she also agrees forever to never speak of any relationship she had with any married men. the wall street journal dug this stuff up and saw the documents a few months ago. you have this two-sided relationship. the national enquirer is his attack dog, and the national enquirer is also his silencer of those who might get in the way of donald s ambitions. and just for the record, the woman you re referring to in that story is younger than donald trump s daughter, fitting the story that they did today on paul manafort completely. and, mieke, it seems if there s any logic, trump logic to this, it could be to extend what david s saying, is that donald trump wants to do whatever he can to hurt paul manafort s credibility so that when and if paul manafort were to reveal negative information about
scandals, which as you ve noted, lawrence, are not crimes. they re not pretty, but they re not crimes in comparison to potential treason and cooperating with a foreign adversary to win an election. david, talk about the various avenues that the prosecutors have on paul manafort. it is an amazing map of possibilities. well, as your earlier guest went into, it is very significant the way they did this raid. it wasn t done without thinking about it. but manafort is vulnerable in a number of areas. first of all he didn t register as a foreign agency. there s a criminal penalty, but he also can be skrtripped of evy single dollar the u.s. government showed came to him from an unregistered foreign client, including money he may have given to his family or friends or even a mistress. secondly, manafort likely is being looked at for tax evasion, for money laundering, and perhaps other crimes that deal with national security matters.