at the very least, it s of course there s a lot of court intrigue going on in american politics and a small percentage is public. one day you wake up and kamala harris is the vice president. how did that happen, you wonder? nobody will say. you can be sure there s a story there. here s the latest example of unexplained weirdness in the news. mike pence of all people has swooped in to save joe biden. yes, mike pence. a man so pure he won t have dinner with ladies not his wife. mike pence had secret documents in his house just like joe biden. bet you didn t see that coming. it wasn t so long ago that pence was on television who said he was sure he had no classified documents in his possession. then he sent his personal attorney to search his home in carmel, indiana for classified documents. if he didn t think he had classified documents, why would he send his lawyer to look for them? it s entirely possible and likely that mike pence was asked to to this by federal prosecutors w
having access to classified information would make his price much higher. so that sort of the motive for it. the other thing about it is that it s very easy, i think, for the special counsel, robert hur, to immediately just clear up whether or not hunter had access to classified information by just cross-matching that e-mail and other information on the laptop with the information in those classified documents that have been discovered at five different locations in joe biden s home and his office at the university of pennsylvania. it should be pretty clear. we know a bare minimum about those classified documents. what we do know is that they pertained to at least the first tranche to ukraine, to the united kingdom and to iran. now, this particular e-mail talks about ukraine and the
could be relevant to hunter biden. his e-mail talks about gifts and benefits that were not declared as taxable income but there s questions of influence pedalling and the foreign transactions that originally flagged this issue for the federal government. martha: yeah. there s a lot on those e-mails. i remember at the time getting indications from some people that are close to the situation that they had been looking for one thing and sort of stumbled on another as they go into this laptop and all of that started to pour out. quickly, jonathan, what do you think about the art sale issue? you know, there s a dealer that recently said that this art would go for a few hundred dollars or a few thousand. he s asking for $500,000 more than a picasso went for. that raises questions whether this is yet another indirect way of assisting or influencing the
that i think at least need some clarification when was the last time you were subject to a polygra polygraph? i was out of scope prior to my last. that would have been at what time? could you be more specific? i think we can cut to the chase i think an e-mail talks about people being out of scope which generated my last polygraph. so you want to say january 2016 when you received a text or e-mail? if that is the date we will take that as a stipulation. has an examiner accused you of using counter measures during a polygraph examination? not to my recollection. you have stipulated that your polygraph was out of scope in
that anyone approached by a foreign national with that type of information should call the fbi first. but trump did not stop there in his defense of his son. he took a meeting with a russian lawyer, not a government lawyer, but a russian lawyer. now, the crucial thing here about what he just said is it actually contradicts the e-mails that trump jr. himself released after this meeting was exposed because in one of the e-mails the e-mail talks about scheduling a meeting between trump junior and let me quote, the russian government attorney who was flying over from moscow. so that s what was in the e-mail. that s what they thought wthey were doing. it doesn t appear there was any question who trump junior thought he was meeting with. a lot of developments to get to tonight. i want to begin with manu raju.