The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Ears is that trump was not at au walled off from the seedier aspects of being donald trump. In fact, he was very much hands on. If cohens account proves true, Donald Trumps Daily Collusion Denial may undergo an extreme make over and his supporters may soon be conditioned to accept that collusion isnt a crime instead of there was no collusion at all, and that is just the p. R. Battle front. The legal problems for the president may be twofold. One, the Trump Tower Meeting is under scrutiny in the Obstruction Of Justice track of the Mueller Probe, and on the Collusion Track Bob Mueller has charged russian officials for Election Meddling and he may be building a conspiracy case and working to Connect The Dots to any unwitting or witting accomplices inside the trump orbit. Cohens bombshell contradicts many months of denials from donald trump about his knowledge of the Trump Tower Meeting, like this
between the united states and china. and speaking about how he is open to talks with iran. let s now bring in ivan watson. he s been following this news conference, as well. ivan, it was very interesting as well to hear that the japanese prime minister says that he s open to, and would like to have talk talks with the north korean leader kim jong-un. yeah, that s not the first time that the japanese prime minister has said this, and he repeated it. he repeatedly gave tribute to president trump for, as abe put it, cracking the shell of distrust with this new approach of direct face-to-face diplomacy with the north korean dictator. but also thanked president trump for making the issue of japanese
in an effort that already looks a little bit like too little too late, donald trump met this afternoon with his national security council for the first-ever meeting to discuss election interference. coming on the very same day, putin extended an invitation for donald trump to visit him in moscow, which the white house has said, wait for it, he s open to. the panel and matt miller are still here. alicia? so often when we talk about election integrity, we focus on the apparatus. that s for something reason because we know in 2016 russian hackers were able to get into voting files to tinker with them and delete some voters. this is a very sobering reminder that it s not just about our aging equipment of voting, it s not just about auditing equipment, there are many ways to infuse chaos and noise into the system. this is just the beginning of what many experts anticipate to be a much bigger trend. rev, why can t democrats bring some republicans into the cause of protecting elections fr
the attempt against mccaskill s office was a variant to the password-stealing technique used by the hackers against clinton s campaign chairman, john podesta. this marks the first identified target of russia s interference in the 2018 elections. in an effort that already looks a little bit like too little too late, donald trump met this afternoon with his national security council for the first-ever meeting to discuss election interference. coming on the very same day, putin extended an invitation for donald trump to visit him in moscow, which the white house has said, wait for it, he s open to. the panel and matt miller are still here. alicia? so often when we talk about election integrity, we focus on the apparatus. that s for something reason because we know in 2016 russian hackers were able to get into voting files to tinker with them and delete some voters. this is a very sobering reminder that it s not just about our aging equipment of voting, it s not just about auditing equip