everything that s been said about him. and i think it was impactful. i think it s something that s reflected in the aftermath of the you know, those hot polls they do after events like this. some of the op-eds that have been written really cast a different light on the michael cohen story. and i think that story is a dot. but it s a big dot in that will connect a lot of other pieces from mueller to sdny. and i believe we re going to look back on this week and go, it was the turning point in this whole affair. the saddest part, though, is how republicans stuck their neck out further for this president. did not take the opportunity to the point that was just made to actually make his case to some degree in this hearing in front of cohen. yes, you can discredit him by saying he s a liar. but then the back part of that is how you say, my guy is not.
her again? then that s fine. that s where the case lies. i think what she s alluding to, if this is a brick in the wall, then you have a situation where you re basically building a case that says look, this person is much closer to the russian government or is russian government essentially. and so you ve got to look at that meeting in a different light. or you may have to look at any sort of follow-ups in a different light. it may have nothing to go along with it at all. really have a problem where we lie and misrepresent yourself in federal courts. you know what, you re going to face the music for this. so it could just be as simple as that. we ll continue to follow the implications. thank you, tom and mimi. as they both when both tom winter and mimi tell you it s a complicated story. take them on face value.
i want you to look at this photo of jill stein with putin at an rt dinner. this is in december of 2015. michael flynn is also at the table. do you see this photo in a different light tonight? no. because i have always believed and known that there was something nefarious afoot here. i didn t vote for jill stein. i cast my ballot for hillary clinton in the general election. i did vote for bernie sanders in the primary. and i think that we live in a binary two-party system and that a vote for anybody other than donald trump or hillary clinton in the general election was a vote that in my opinion didn t necessarily count. it was not a true participation in democracy. i think third parties are something that could be viable one day. folks haven t done the work to make a third party viable. but the russians didn t just meddle in 2016, don. we know they have been they were around in 2017, that they tried their hand in 2018 and they will in fact be back in 2019 and 2020.
i don t think that would be accurate, nor true. did you have any idea, do you think the campaign had any idea about of these efforts? no. we did not have any idea about the russians. we didn t collude with the russians, don. perhaps somebody did, but it definitely wasn t on the left side of the aisle. i want you to look at this photo of jill stein with putin at an rt dinner. this is in december of 2015. michael flynn is also at the table. do you see this photo in a different light tonight? no. because i have always believed and known that there was something nefarious afoot here. i didn t vote for jill stein. i cast my ballot for hillary clinton in the general election. i did vote for bernie sanders in the primary. and i think that we live in a binary two-party system and that a vote for anybody other than donald trump or hillary clinton in the general election was a vote that in my opinion didn t necessarily count. it was not a true participation
staff who he expresses frustration with, in a different light. after this one year anniversary, he s telling the staff that he s staying. that s right. it is an effort to try to end what had been pretty rapid speculations and administration of kelly expected demise. their relationships have stabilized at the moment. kelly told senior staff on monday that the president asked him to stay throughout 2020. that could all change. personnel moves and there is constaco constant changes in the white house. there is quite a chatter of who in the white house could succeed him. phil rucker and thank you so