the president will be helpful. so i agree with neil, ironically, trump has been doing things to make the report shorter. fighting the investigation that s going to give congress a lot more space in any kind of impeachment investigation. last thing, do you think this manafort pleading, assuming it comes tonight, he has a midnight deadline. do you think this is going to be the definitive tale of why this guy matters in the probe as opposed to his previous life and what he was doing to cover any debts he had? give me a quick answer? i don t think it will be definitive but it will tell us a lot. this manafort worked for 143 days for the campaign and he lied to mueller but he s been caught red handed. nobody wants 14 scaramuccis. one is enough. he gave sensitive polling data to the russians and that, you know, that s the crowned
president and didn t find conspiracy to commit federal crimes. everything he said that clears the president will be helpful. so i agree with neil, ironically, trump has been doing things to make the report shorter. that s going to give congress a lot more space in any kind of impeachment investigation. last thing, do you think this manafort pleading, assuming it comes tonight, he has a midnight deadline. do you think this is going to be the definitive tale of why this guy matters in the probe as opposed to his previous life and what he was doing to cover any debts he had? give me a quick answer? i don t think it will be definitive but it will tell us a lot. this manafort worked for 143 days for the campaign and he lied to mueller but he s been caught red handed. nobody wants 14 scaramuccis. one is enough. he gave sensitive polling
now here s why it matters what foster friesz is doing. he donated $2.6 million in the 2012 election. and he wants very, very much to be involved in the 2014 elections, goldie. so this guy matters, especially with the new law. i think you re right about that reverend sharpton. but this is not new. caricatures of political figures including u.s. presidents has happened since the beginning of this democracy. but on the other hand, we are now at a different place. we re at a place where there are many more touch points, where many more people have a voice or a stake in this discourse. and sometimes to its good, to its betterment, and sometimes to its december rimt as in this case. you re finding people like foster friesz who are pouring money into campaigns like rick santorum. pouring money to expand their own platform, to expand their
and if you have a cell phone on you, you want to know if something important just happened. you re not going to want to read 40 inches on it but you want to know that it happened and we have to deliver you those things on each platform. we have to be on good on each. it used to be there were a couple of reporters, johnny apple at the new york times, where they would say, this guy matters, take a look at this guy. are there any more gatekeepers? people want that. in today s journalism, people like that. you know why people watch this show? they want to know what i think. that s right. our reporters have to give them more running room. we re bringing on more pronounced voices. michael wolff has an opinion or two and we re bringing on others and giving some of our existing reporters, like susan page who is terrific fek more running room to be out there to tell the