Updates of the days news. Directly intersects with the news of the day about there being potentially a second premeeting for the russia trump tower meeting. Rick gates is one of the names that Rudy Guilliani slipped and revealed in the series of interviews yesterday. What is the significance of Paul Manafort dropping his case against robert mueller. He was trying to have this case dismissed in court, saying that Robert Muellers jurisdiction did not extend to what he is actually charging Paul Manafort with . As i understand, he dropped those charges yesterday. It just seems he is increasingly finding himself to be more cornered and he doesnt have a lot of options to fight back at this point, and this is all getting back to that original goal of trying to squeeze manafort and get as. Information as possible out of him as they move closer hopefully to doing an interview of the president himself. That is still very much on the table. Also, heidi, why is it that Paul Manafort you think hasn
now. they cannot beat us face to face so they are resorting to these techniques they used in aleppo and grosni but nevertheless, i m sure ukraine will overcome. western intelligence official telling cnn that u.s. and nato officials now believe that russia is changing strategy, they are poised now to bombard cities into submission. they expect more attacks and casualties. how does this end? this will end, this will only make putin s crime bigger, but he cannot conquer this country. this country doesn t want him. this country wants her freedom and her way of life. this country wants, the russian reality where two men sit in one room and say you know what, i ll be president next four years and he will be prime minister then
senate. i think it s very, very unlikely, that the chief justice inserts himself where the senate doesn t want him. mitt romney says he has an open mind about voting to convict trump and he s expressed his displeasure and says it s inappropriate what the president said, however, he says he has an open mind now. you know him. you ve sat down with him many times and do you think he will vote to impeach or remove, i m sorry. he said this in the past and said this in october that he has an open mind. it s a convenient way to a lot of senators to not commit themselves and say i have to be on the jury so i will not give you a verdict before i go and sit on the jury and i think that is what mitt romney is doing. having said that, let me also say that the mitt romney that i ve cover side somebody who really cares about presidential character, and character in general, and i think that will weigh heavily in his in his decision making, and it will on a lot of other senators minds,
pressure from the nra, too much pressure from the gop wing that doesn t want him to act on this. so will the president make a move in the next few weeks that paves the way for congress to do it. that is a possibility. but it would have to go the other direction from what he s historically done. and polling wise, universal background checks are incredibly popular. even among republicans. even among republicans. even among members of the nra. and for a long time there is talk about is there a difference between gun owners and the leadership of the nra. in terms of their view point on certain issues. there are other things like handgun bans where there is wide opposition but on background checks you see significant majorities in favor but in order to get a republican president doing it, in a way it has to be someone like trump who has such strong hold on the base where you have 90-plus percent of republicans thinking we have a favorable view of him to take on what is a strong and infl
the capital next year. we see that every day. it s extraordinary. republicans don t want anything to do with him. they don t any association with his brand of politics. he s been incredibly alleged to have molested underaged girls. this should be a gimme seat for democrats. it s alabama, deep red. one republican operative put it to me about a month and a half ago ha their key threshold test is to not nominate a child mowester. and now you have roy moore jumping in this case again. they re going to do everything they can to defeat him. d.c. people don t want roy moore in the race, as we ve been talking about. where are alabama voters on this, right? you look at some of the numbers and polling, it doesn t seem like moore has a shot at this point, but it s early yet. it doesn t necessarily seem like he has a shot, but it seems like he s putting himself forward anyway. voters don t really want him. the republican party doesn t want him. by the way, president trump doesn t think he