A look at the days latest news and headlines. Thanks, 2 minutes. If that same day, he finished another installment of the dossier that went out to former Trump Campaign manager carter page for ties to russia. There were more installments zeroing in on the allegations against Paul Manafort. The bottom line is all these strands suggests, as the president has been tweeting, there may have been collusion or connections on the other side of all of this dealing with russia, that have not been investigated yet. Martha with more on this, brian lanza the former Communications Director for President Trumps transition team. He is now the Managing Director of Mercury Lobbying Firm which currently does work for an independent board member of oleg dariposkas Energy Company. Also former Democratic National Committee Spokesperson and he is a fox news contributor. I want to start with you. Does it distribute the story that ed laid out . Its a convoluted story. Martha whats convoluted . Theres a lot of
i have said, i want the investigation to play out. i want people to stop trying to shut down the investigation and any questions that come of it. regardless of what direction it goes. that s the difference between some of us and some on the other side that say we should shut it all down, let s let this thing play out and see where it takes us. martha: we need to clear up what you do, used to be trumps communications director. oleg dariposka is working within involved with but you aren t representing him personally, can you clear that up? what i do is i work for greg barker who is an independent board member, who is under sanctions and they re trying to
with his russian friends witches oleg dariposka oleg dariposka and the russian government. that gives me concern, that s conspiracy to interfere in an american election by foreign agents, this british national and these russian officials that he claimed to get this information from. to so dissent inside our political arena. that should cause a lot of people concerned. martha: but he also had a relationship with paul manafort. i have no context for what that relationship is. martha: he had his hand in a lot of different pots. we need to learn a lot more about that. let me swing forward to a couple of our topics here. rod rosenstein, apparently there has been a softening in that relationship. reports are that they talked several times a week, is that significant? if the president has a stop trying to get rod rosenstein fired or talking about that,
thanks, 2 minutes. if that same day, he finished another installment of the dossier that went out to former trump campaign manager carter page for ties to russia. there were more installments zeroing in on the allegations against paul manafort. the bottom line is all these strands suggests, as the president has been tweeting, there may have been collusion or connections on the other side of all of this dealing with russia, that have not been investigated yet. martha: with more on this, brian lanza the former communications director for president trump s transition team. he is now the managing director of mercury lobbying firm which currently does work for an independent board member of oleg dariposka s energy company. also former democratic national committee spokesperson and he is a fox news contributor. i want to start with you.
shed oleg dariposka from the company s leadership in the company s board. martha: if you can remove him from the company, you re hoping this company will get some sanctions relief, is that true? according to the sanctions that were listed, if those two things take place. martha: for people at home, this story is very complicated, oleg dariposka is not somebody who most people are familiar with. he had some kind of relationship with christopher steele who put together the dossier. he also had some kind of relationship with paul manafort who was the campaign manager of the trump campaign. what do people need to understand about this guy? i don t know a lot about him. i know his relationship with christopher steele is a lot of concern. the clinton campaign hired a foreign agent to make contacts