joining me is elena treen, white house reporter from oxous, and the former deputy district attorney and former msnbc legal analyst. thank you for being here today. i remember very early in president trump s tenure standing outside the windows actually of the oval office while the president made a phone call i believe to counterparts across the globe. mike flynn, of course, sitting in the oval office right across from the president, stunning we sometimes lose sight of the fact he s been charged been to be sentenced at all as the former national security adviser. but what do you think is the most damaging information for the president to come out of this sentencing now? kasie, it seems like when everything is a significant scandal, nothing seems to be a significant scandal. but if we pause for a moment and we think about flynn, who became the national security adviser, having secret conversations with the russians about doing favor
the star wars bar we had been talking about off camera. all of this talk about crazy alien characters so to speak and we have forgotten this started with lying to the vice president of the united states and having the acting attorney general of the united states have to come in and tell the white house about this individual that was lying. so there s a lot of wrongdoing happening directly in the oval office, in the white house like you said, the meeting with flynn. so some of this will come out in this document. the other big thing is mueller can use this document to lay out a case in the public if the event the report ends up getting hidden by the justice department or not fully released. he can use the memo today to continue laying out the facts as he has done already. elena, we heard almost nothing from bob mueller. he doesn t leak. the only way in which we re actual i learning what he s doing and knows is through these documents that are somewhat unceremoniously put into th
ones, big bridges. i don t blame china. i blame our leadership. they should have never let that happen. i told that to president xi. we don t have a deal with china. there s no deal. politico reporting that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort met with mueller s investigators yesterday as part of his agreement. manafort could shed some light on several key issues from the trump tower meeting to the pro putin change in the republican party platform. manafort avoided a second trial after pleading guilty last month to two counts of conspiracy, one against the u.s., the other to obstruct justice. in fact, he faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison. sentencing has been delayed until his cooperation is completed. joining us now from washington, d.c., elena treen. great to have you with us. let s talk about robert mueller s investigators and the meeting they had with paul
court justice, elena treen is a reporter for axeas. the interviews are all done, appears that president trump is likely going to pick the person that he feels the most comfortable with, personally, which has been the modus operandi for the in the a lot of the things he has chosen. exactly. something that you hear president trump say quite often is that we had great personal chemistry. i think we got along, hit it off well. that s something that the president kind of relies on. and stems from his business background. he gets inside the room with some one, the way that he feels, he likes to go off of that. ultimately, sources tell us that that will be what it comes to now that he narrowed it down to the top three contenders, kethledge, kavanaugh, and coney barrett. trace: the last several days brett kavanaugh has been in position one, you listen to the analysts.
raymond kethledge they re in their late 40s, early 50s, they could be on the court for years and years to come. this is a battle in the senate. good of you, elena treen, thank you. trace: fox urgent, immigration rights activist pleading not guilty in new york city this morning after police say she climbed the statue of liberty and refused to come down for hours. it happened yesterday on the fourth of july. police say the woman was protesting the trump administration zero tolerance policy on immigration, specifically parents and children getting separated at the southern u.s. border. emergency officials evacuated all liberty island where the statue is located. many tourists were there for the holidays and officers say it took nearly three hours to reach the climber and bring her down. she is reportedly part of a group called rise and resist. members had been holding an immigration protest on liberty island but they say this woman decided to scale lady liberty on her own.