That all happening all at once. Maybe its a coincidence, maybe thats what happens when the charges start to get filed. They all interrelate. They must be at least some level read into whats going on in muellers shop, we would hope. This all looks like its designed to protect donald trump. Not get at the meat and potatoes of what russia did to us. I feel like so much of what were seeing is it to protect donald trump i dont know maybe im a little paranoid thinking that is disturbing. None of us are naive. But the part of it that i have been a little bit dismayed by is that its one thing for people who are partisans of the trump
administration or who are republicans and see it as their job to defend the president , to say, you know what, this collusion thing didnt happen. What russia did was terrible. We are against that. But Dont Try To Drag Donald Trump into this, dont try youre saying that he was involved in this to try to undercut his election. He won his election fair and square. And
that what we re doing, what we re saying is the truth. but right now, people are scared to say it for whatever reason. i really don t want to speculate. i don t claim to understand it but what i do know is that the men people are in jeopardy as a result of the behavior and activity of this administration. this president has met the boundaries for impeachment and we need to tell the truth and asking americans if no one else will tell the truth, will the american people join us? which they have been and raise their voices to say we need to do this now. you know, there s a way to put yourself in the position to be a part of an impeachment proceeding or a trial if donald trump would be impeached. are you interested in running for senate in are you planning to run for senate? what i ve said, joy, and which is was true when i said it before and still true, i believe that we have gone down a very dark path. as a country. and i will do anything and i haven t ruled out running for office
joining us now. chief of staff to janet reno. david korn from mother jones. and natasha bertrand. she s been closely following russia s involvement in the 2016 u.s. presidential election. i m going to start with you, natasha. does it feel like this might be, rather than the beginning of the story, maybe the crest of a story that began 48 hours or so ago, when we started to hear this alternate collusion theory? absolutely. this puts into context all of the distractions, that we ve been getting out of the republicans over the last week. and aided by the president this morning, now we know there s no collusion between donald trump and russia, it s all hillary clinton. the uranium story that mysteriously disappeared after 11 years. this is foreshadowing something
the republicans are going to then try and protect donald trump when what he did is collude with a hostile foreign power to try to interfere with the election, given what russia wants to do to america and bringing it low, they have a hard time defending that and still maintaining that they re patriots. absolutely. david korn, i come back to you for a moment. the attempt to sort of go and do a third direction, and create a new russia-gate that is hillary clinton s scandal, it doesn t i don t know where that goes. i don t know how long you can roll with that. it works for the fox news audience. it gives trump something to tweet about. and remember, what they want to do is they don t want to win this argument. they want to muddy the waters. they want to make people think that the russian scandal is just partisan bickering, back and forth. who knows? uranium, dossiers. that s what they want to do. they don t want to focus on the key thing that the u.s. was attacked and donald trump an
that all happening all at once. maybe it s a coincidence, maybe that s what happens when the charges start to get filed. they all interrelate. they must be at least some level read into what s going on in mueller s shop, we would hope. this all looks like it s designed to protect donald trump. not get at the meat and potatoes of what russia did to us. i feel like so much of what we re seeing is it to protect donald trump i don t know maybe i m a little paranoid thinking that is disturbing. none of us are naive. but the part of it that i have been a little bit dismayed by is that it s one thing for people who are partisans of the trump