surprising that carry cohen got away with it than the fact that he actually did it. things were okso chaotic, but t memo was created and it didn t show up and he didn t miss it because he didn t insist on it coming back to him so he could carry out his will. again, it s just a reflection of the chaos. now, when you look at what is in the woodward book and particularly the anonymous memo, you get the thoughts that some folks accused those folks of being anti-democratic. i don t think i would have taken the memo route myself, and i don t think it would be operationally or constitutional effective over the long term. we have put these people in an almost hopeless position. what are they to do when an
and it memo also lays out the fact that many of us know just as a fact, you can google it and see it on the internet, carter page had a long-standing relationship with russia. carter page s relationship did not start in july 2016 or august 2016. it goes back for a long time. so i think this memo really points to the fact that several members of the trump campaign had long-standing relationships with russia. flynn had a relationship with turkey, and that s very concerning. i can tell you, i have been in touch with house democrats and senate democrats. they re glad the memo is out to correct the record, but they all agree. its time to get back to work. we re going to go back to evan perez, who is our cnn justice correspondent. evan has new information he wants to share. evan. ryan, i just wanted to add a lilt bit to that conversation because, again, i think part of the whole purpose of this exercise, the reason why we re even here, is that the republicans have been making a number of
mueller to be smirch it because they couldn t fire mueller themself. that is what they are doing here. how it memo is related to the conduct of bob mueller in his investigation is obviously the question. and i think this memo isn t going to show much about that. but i think in the white house, that is why i said they are crafting a narrative. because they re going to have to make the argument that this somehow, even if it is subtle, make the argument that this undermines the legitimacy of bob mueller even if though don t say his name because they want to have russia and all of this sounds as if it is completely inconsequential when people understand there is something that russia did and the intelligence agencies said russia did something inappropriate in our elections and continue to do so in the midterms. here is what i m struggling with, george. i hear you on the over sight and you ve been fighting about article one for i feel like for quite sometime these days. please, will c
the president wrote james comey leaked classified information. that is illegal. according to the hill sources, some of the private memos of comey s conversations with president trump about the russian investigation contained classified material. however, there is nothing in the hill, we should point out, in their report thag suggests it memo that comey gave to a friend that eventually made it into the press contained classified information. jessica schneider is back with me on this. pulling double duty today, i appreciate it. lay this out for me. reporter: the president there in the tweet claiming james comey leaked classified information. like you said, kate, there s nothing to indicate the memo he gave his law professor friend to leak to the press, there s nothing saying it contained that information. the former fbi director wrote
stand. one of roosevelt s top aids wrote a memo calling a bombing and said even if we kill a few of them in a process, many will escape. he said they re all going to die in the gas chambers and miss placed if we don t do something. one other thing is quiet significant. henry, who is roosevelt s best friend and influential secretary of treasury wrote the hardest hit memo ever written in american history to roosevelt in which he talk ed about the government s act we essence. after he wrote it the two met in the white house and roosevelt set up the war refugee board which was designed to do nothing but help the jews. vivid and important. the book is 1944 fdr and the year that changed history. jay winik, thank you so much. thank you for writing it. thank you, jay. coming up, there s been a lot of