Going on for the last two and a half years. Charles all this as former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is sentenced to just 47 months in prison on tax and bank fraud charges, far shorter than what was recommended by the special counsels office. Lets bring in the wall street journals deputy editor, Dan Henninger. Kim strassel and bill mcgurn with us as well. It just never stops, but going into the weekend, everyones still kind of reeling from the manafort sentencing. Yeah, the 47 months instead of the 21 years that they expected him to get. I think in many ways, charles, this is a preview of the mueller anticlimax to come. Because the manafort was being concentrated on here because he had been Donald Trumps campaign manager. His case was handed off from the Justice Department to muellers investigation in the expectation he would give them information about trump and collusion. Muellers lawyer said at the sentencing hearing he gave us nothing and maybe because he had nothing. And s
Information on a political opponent. I think i would listen. Theres nothing wrong with listening. If somebody called from a country, norway, we have information on your opponent, i think i would want to hear it. You want that kind of interference in our l elections. Not interference. They have information. I think id take it. Paul the president told fox he would report it to Law Enforcement if he thought the information was, quote, incorrect, or badly stated. Lets bring in wall street journal columnist, Dan Henninger and ki kim strassel and bill mcgern. What do you make of the president s statements . It was something he should not have said. We dont like foreign governments meddling in our elections. What the russians did with the bots and websites and all of that was not a good thing. So that was a mistake. But i wouldnt build it into a mownen the, i think it mountain, i think it was more or less a double dribble. The president has to understand hes in reelection mode. Every time he
Going on for the last two and a half years. Charles all this as former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is sentenced to just 47 months in prison on tax and bank fraud charges, far shorter than what was recommended by the special counsels office. Lets bring in the wall street journals deputy editor, Dan Henninger. Kim strassel and bill mcgurn with us as well. It just never stops, but going into the weekend, everyones still kind of reeling from the manafort sentencing. Yeah, the 47 months instead of the 21 years that they expected him to get. I think in many ways, charles, this is a preview of the mueller anticlimax to come. Because the manafort was being concentrated on here because he had been Donald Trumps campaign manager. His case was handed off from the Justice Department to muellers investigation in the expectation he would give them information about trump and collusion. Muellers lawyer said at the sentencing hearing he gave us nothing and maybe because he had nothing. And s
Paul the subpoena threat coming after attorney general william barr said last week hed release a redacted version of the 400page report no later than mid april. George terwilliger served in the george h. W. Bush administration. Welcome, good to see you. Thanks for coming in. As a matter of law, what is the attorney general required to turn over to Congress Regarding the Mueller Investigation . Well, its entirely in his discretion. What hes really required to do, hes already done; that is, tell them that he got the report, and he actually went beyond that, paul, as you know paul right. To summarize the, quote, principal conclusions in that report. But its also entirely evident from all the publiclyavailable information that the a. G. Is committed to transparency and is trying to get as much of the report to the congress and to the public, i might add, as the law allows. Paul so what about this, the argument that the a. G. Made that you have grand jury testimony, for example, that you ne
crossed the southern border. basically it is the main mechanism that the federal government has in place to remove it migrants enter the country seeking asylum. it supplanted an earlier policy called remain and mexico also implement on the trump in missed ration for the same purpose. basically be tween the two policies it s only way the united states has been able to not only remove some of the burden that border states are facing from the crowded coming from these migrants but also create a disincentive to people who are coming either from mexico or from s other central american countries to take a chance. they know what they re going to be temporarily removed by the united states that gives them less of an incentive to take the risky journey and an attempt to cross. it is a vital policy. gillian what kind of magnitudes are we talking about how many people will come over title 42 goes away? and could remain and mexico