comments. manafort offering daily briefings to russians isn t collusion? well, oki paid close attention that this morning, the owe la gark to whom he offered that briefing didn t accept there never was such a briefing but the coziness between the most senior level of the trump campaign and an individual with close ties to vladimir putin is definitely troublesome but is that collusion in and of itself? it s not. by the way, there s no such crime as collusion. what they ve got to show is a conspiracy to commit some underlying criminal act and we don t have that here. as an attorney i come here week after week and i try and explore the legal aspects of the russian investigation but that s all that i m doing, because we don t have in the public domain evidence of a conspiracy, no
we don t prosecute treason under the treason statute under the constitutional provision when we re not at a time of war, very rarely do, but when you have foreign government assistance of political campaign that violates campaign laws, there s computer hacking laws, with respect to a lot of the information that the russians obtained, of course the false statements, they lied about their contacts with the russians, several of these people now working for the united states government. and i think i ve been a republican for 30 years. they say this isn t collusion. our prior history with the communist party, we cannot accept this. this is collusion. we ve got to stop lying about it. the president needs to disclose any and all of the meetings with the russians so we can move on as a country. but the lies are not helping. so does this reach the level
who are we sending out the mule when he s caught with the drugs. in this case we are seeing something similar and that s papadopoulos. we have manafort saying dt is not going to do these meetings you are. it s going to stay at a low level. that s very reminiscent of listening to drug cartel. what sticks out to you in this guilty plea? i think it sthoes a couple of things. head line story obviously is the over and above what we already had on the trump tower meeting. this is getting closer and closer to out right kind of quid pro quo exchange discussions between the champagne and russia about information and access to donald trump. the word collusion at least as it s being used from the white house press briefing room podium now is completely lost all meaning. if this isn t collusion, i don t know what is. this is certainly evidence of a concerted effort to create that