coptic krinchristians but when comes to rail issues, that have been conducted to people who have ties to white supremacist organizations, he really has not condemned those attacks in the same way. certainly not forcefully, and certainly without, not without a wave of criticism first. why is he or even the white house not concerned more about that? i mean that avoidance so to speak? well, look, part of the, the president has played foot sy in a way with the groups, and you know, not necessarily white supremacist groups but people who may share some of those concerns, who may worry about the influx of immigrants coming into the country, or the chaining racial composition of the country. so you know, that is part of his base. now, it may be a small part of his base, but it is part of his base. so it is hard not to see politics at play here. we are in an election year, or we re in a re-election cycle. so dean, in your latest piece for the daily beast, you write,
fact president trump continues to play footsy with vladimir putin, the more concerned we shouldby. obviously michael cohen was going to come 37th before the house government oversight committee. shouldn t there be open public hearings, starting now. first, we as house democrats should continue to focus on our people the agenda. and cleaning up corruption and the mess here in washington d.c. but second we do take our article one constitutional responsibility seriously as a separate and co equal branch of government. we don t do work for donald trump. we work for the american people
house. we ll have have to threat mueller investigation run its course before we can determine who is culpable. but the more we learn about the fact president trump continues to play footsy with vladimir putin, the more concerned we shouldby. obviously michael cohen was going to come 37th before the house government oversight committee. shouldn t there be open public hearings, starting now. first, we as house democrats should continue to focus on our people the ajengenda. and cleaning up corruption and the mess here in washington d.c. but second we do take our article one constitutional responsibility seriously as a separate and co equal branch of government.
business relations with russians. and this will be the trump defense. that is cohen can talk to anybody. his family can talk to anybody. the question only goes to whether or not vladimir putin and the russian government and russian intelligence had some sway over him, had some compromat on him that that relationship turned into something that was potentially a conspiracy or something like that. there was no evidence of that in what happened on friday. there s other really bad stuff, but that collusion/conspiracy thing is not indicated in what we saw. all we saw was the extent to which they were trying the trump organization was trying to play footsy with russia which meant deal with the russian government, and that s it. like, you know, until they can
this morning on meet the press. as far as i know, he said it s not illegal to try to have business relations with russians. and this will be the trump defense. that is cohen can talk to anybody. his family can talk to anybody. the question only goes to whether or not vladimir putin and the russian government and russian intelligence had some sway over him, had some compromat on him that that relationship turned into something that was potentially a conspiracy or something like that. there was no evidence of that in what happened on friday. there s other really bad stuff, but that collusion/conspiracy thing is not indicated in what we saw. all we saw was the extent to which they were trying the trump organization was trying to play footsy with russia which meant deal with the russian government, and that s it.