back to the case that mueller is presenting, when you look at everything that was going on in the summer of 016, it wasn t just that the president was secretly negotiating a real estate deal. it s that he was doing it at a time his son and his campaign manager and his son-in-law were meeting with a russian intelligent intermediary. it was at the same time as he was changing the republican party platform to make it more friendly towards russia. it was at the same time as we found out this week his outside adviser, roger stone, was getting the heads up about the exact timing and content of the week wikileaks stump. so when you add all this up, there s always been this question, why was the president so friendly towards vladimir putin during the campaign? why was it he was praising vladimir putin and talking about re-orienting u.s. policy towards russia? now what you see is the beginning of a quid pro quo where the president might have