inaugural committee chairman was planning to take advantage. he s reporting part of the trump ink project. good to have you here hoo. tom barrack and a company called colony. what was his role and colony s role? he s an extremely old friend of donald trump. he was an advisor in the campaign and when trump won the election, trump asked him to run the inaugural committee that there s still so many questions about. and he has another hat which is he was the founder of a huge investment firm called colony capital and the story is based on and what does that spell out? so this is a colony memo dated february 2017. so right after trump s sworn in and what it is is a plan essentially for colony to profit off its relationships with donald trump, the administration on the one hand and foreigners
story with trace. the last location was on february 2017 where he was stopped in a taxicab government check point in damascus. there was no sign of him. nearly two years since he went missing the family has quietly worked with the state department and the fbi to uncover any clues or proof that he is still alive. czech ambassador initially confirmed that he was being held in a jail and then the diplomat went silent and the syrian government denied the claim. now the family is asking president trump to help save his life, sending a letter to the president that reads in part, quote: mr. president, you are the only power that is able to bring him safely home to his wife, children, grand children, mother, siblings and friends. we have seen your tremendous effort and success in returning american citizens wrongfully detained abroad and write this letter to bring your attention to our father. the family believes the president can help because he is one of just a small
so november of 2016, spam hope hicks said, quote, there was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign. now we know that s not true, many times over. in february 2017, sarah sanders then repeated that lie, but added, to the best of our knowledge. so inserting some wiggle room there. then that march donald trump jr. told the new york times well, yes, i did meet with russians, but nothing was set up, and he wasn t representing the campaign. that was a lie, as was the meeting at trump tower was primarily about adoption. by december of 2017, the president s other tv lawyer, jay sekulow moved the goalpost again, telling the new yorker jeff toobin for something to be a crime there has to be a statute that you claim is being violated. there is a not a statute that refers to criminal collusion. there is no crime of collusion. by may last year, the line changed again and the goalpost moved with it. here is rudy giuliani saying there is nothing wrong w
really having to be consistent or exactly clear, and yeah, it does kind of make your head spin. and yeah, maybe that s the point. in any case, july 31st, 2018, no collusion whatsoever. yet as far back as may 2016, he seemed to be leaving open the possibility while saying it wouldn t be a crime. then it was back to a flat denial, then back again. so we re very indebted tonight to the washington post, which put together a timeline on how the story has changed. so november of 2016 spokeswoman hope hicks said, quote, there was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign. now we know that s not true, many times over. in february 2017, sarah sanders then repeated that lie, but added, to the best of our knowledge. so inserting some wiggle room there. then that march donald trump jr. told the new york times well, yes, i did meet with russians, but nothing was set up, and he wasn t representing the campaign. that was a lie, as was the
in an act in moving the goal post not seen since the search for jimmy hoffa under giants stadium, the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani made a stunning statement on cnn, saying he cannot say for certain that no one on the trump campaign conspired with the russians, only that the president did not. there is no single bit of evidence that the president committed the only crime that could be had here, to hack the dnc. a long and winding road of blanket denials. hope hicks in 2016, quote, there was no communication between the campaign and any foreign entity during the campaign. sarah sanders february 2017, quo quote, to the best of our knowledge, no contacts took place. president trump himself in his