administration or who are republicans and see it as their job to defend the president, to say, you know what, this collusion thing didn t happen. what russia did was terrible. we are against that. but don t try to drag donald trump into this, don t try you re saying that he was involved in this to try to undercut his election. he won his election fair and square. and what the russians did was something separate. what has started to happen now, is that the white house in particular is really trying to get away with saying the russians did nothing wrong. that s right. and they re doing that at the same time rex tillerson is dissolving the sanctions department, that the white house is dragging its feet bringing sanctions against russia. and if we re going to protect ourselves from russia, continuing to do this. the department of homeland security, dod and lots of other organizations ought to be well down the road in terms of protecting us, and they re not. that surrender to what rus
each and every one of them. and responding to them in various forms. first you have natalia and her crew going directly to the top management of the trump campaign, including his son, and trying to offer that information. on the other hand as we ve learned, flynn and smith and cambridge analytical all quite possibly independently, were trying to gather this data to use the hillary clinton e-mails against her. at the same time, we know donald trump became cognizant of all of these efforts on july 27th, when he said, russia if you re listening, please release hillary clinton s e-mails. all of these amount to a conspiracy. we don t know whether or not there was any active
responsibility for thoroughly investigating and making sure it doesn t happen again. i think the indictments make it harder for them to put pressure on robert mueller and we ll get to see some results of what he is doing, maybe get an idea of where he is heading if indeed the indictments come down but ultimately the president had a chance. he had a great chance to put it behind him when he took office to say, we re going to get to the bottom of this. if it benefited me, it was unintentional on my part, and we re going to move ahead and have an investigation and make sure it never happens again. but all he s done with his republican poodles is to make sure we don t find out the truth, and that everything gets covered up and lidden away. that s why this is not going to go away for them. you know what? malcolm, not only that, but you have donald trump do things that seem counter intuitive if the idea is to put to bed he has a special affinity for russia an and the sanctions to be implem
intervening far gag order lifted to further the uranium one conspiracy theory. there does seem to be almost counter intuitive action coming out of the white house, don t you think? i mean, we had counter intuitive actions come ow of donald trump from the day he announced to run for president. none of that s surprising. what is surprising and i think the republicans are most afraid of is that if indictments come down the pike and donald trump tries to put the kibosh on this investigation, goes after mueller, you know, unfortunately for him, he can get rid of mueller but all the documents that are left on the table, all of the investigation documents, they don t go away. i think mueller understands that.
trump fires bob mueller to prevent him from indicting people close enough to the president, and what we see here is that the house and lesser extent the senate and the senate somewhat are just completely giving up their constitutional responsibilities to have oversight on the president and now they re going the next step and trying to stop the person who is bob mueller and house republicans and donald trump i think are going to provoke a constitutional crisis trying to prevent special counsel from doing his job. a constitutional crisis david korn, but also a political crisis. one could envision a scenario where if there s indictments and donald trump to, let s say, pardon folks and takes us into a different political territory to drag us through the rest of the year. i don t think republicans necessarily have an easy out from this russia probe and all of its many tentacles. they don t have an easy out because they haven t come to terms with what happened, with the fact that as i sa