the ones that do tell, tell much later after it happens. so for the president to suggest that dr. ford is not credible because she did not report immediately, he either is completely unaware of the wealth of research on this issue or he doesn t care, he just doesn t care that he s wrong and that she s credible in the eyes of most people because she didn t report. that s what victims do. and i mean, in some ways if she had reported right away, people might say, well, that s not credible because that s not what most victims do. so i don t think the president got it right, not even close, not on that point. i want to put up some of these statistics compiled by an anti-sexual assault organization, looking at government statistics here, 310 out of every 1,000 cases reported, that means 2 out of every 3 cases are not reported.
it s three marie: he mentioned some congressional candidates. that is not the way that it would be done. so i think he s making a big mistake, continually attacking mueller because he sort of begging for his mueller to write a report that will be scathing. and just to defend himself. it doesn t look like that from the outside. if these people in his constellation, cohen and manafort, and lisa mentioned a wider scope. but collins and duncan hunter in that order were the first sitting members of congress to endorse the president. so they are in the constellation of conversation that we are talking about it, but if it really has nothing to do with the investigation, why even bring it up. the six i didn t mean to
melissa: at the very dirty president of ukraine legally and politically. that s right. the russia issue there is another guy i m talking about the first thing that paul manafort was lobbying for didn t report that and there are people who have said that when he was running the campaign, the platform of the campaign became much more progression and much less pro-ukrainian. so i think these issues are going to come up in the next trial. melissa: but we ve already learned from this past trial in terms of the 58 or so million dollars, that s where some of that money was coming from because he was doing work for that former president. i will be interested to see if the trial happens. now why do you think a second trial wouldn t happen? if we all are right, that
is being smart from a p.r. standpoint and a political standpoint, maybe not from you putting your lawyer hat on. i would push back in this sense. i agree with you that he has done a public relations strategy because he s thinking about impeachment which is not about what happens in court. but i think you have to play out the whole chess game. whatever the polls look like now, the last word on this is going to be manafort s report. we talked about this once before. i m not saying that you say anything in the report that s untrue, but you can write a report. or, you can write a report. that sounds like spin to me. is also worth remembering that the next trial that will be happening in d.c. is in a large part about manafort s work. so we don t know
the allegation here is it was cohen who paid it and made a campaign contribution which he didn t report, at the direction of the president. some stations are already playing the funeral music for president trump, but this is much more complicated and much more nuanced. first of all the crime itself is very, very vague. they try to put edwards, the former presidential candidate on trial and of course got an acquittal. but second, it really depends completely on the credibility of cohen. remember as judge ellis said it, when they squeeze people like manafort or cohen, they squeeze them not only to sing but sometimes to compose and they embellish the story. they did pay the money, and all he has to do then is say, and the president directed me to do it. that s a kind of embellishment the people put on a story when they want to avoid dying in