and, you know, i don t know who funded it or how it was funded, but it wasn t a surprise to me, because that was what i understood had happened. and as a governor christie said, unfortunately, in this day and age, opposition research is part of the political process and it s it goes on, you know, all the time, amongst both parties. and in fact, in this case, it was an opposition research product that was partially funded by the republicans at the beginning and then at the end was funded by the democrats. ohio senator sherrod brown is urging his fellow democrats to work with president trump on a plan to cut taxes for working families. you re on the senate budget committee. where do you come down on the issue? do you think a deal is possible with president trump on the tax issue? well, i think a deal is possible. one of the oddest things about the process that we re undertaking now is that it s just like health care. it s all being done entirely behind closed doors by republicans,
has already got something underway on that question. hopefully we can get it resolved and keep moving forward. we also learned this week that a lawyer for the clinton campaign and the dnc, at least partially funded, that opposition research dossier into then candidate trump. john podesta and congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz, who was the head of the dnc at the time, they both said they had no idea that they were funding the dossier, looking into president trump s connections to russia. do you believe them? well, what i ve been hearing for months, and not just in the last few days, is that this thing was originally opposition research begun by republicans during the primary period. and i think that s been confirmed in the last few days. and then after the primaries were over, in effect, the opposition research was turned over to the democrats. and, you know, i don t know who funded it or how it was funded, but it wasn t a surprise to me, because that was what i understood had h
week, the players kneeling. this seems like a deliberate effort to pour gasoline back on the fire. he considers these distractions and deflectors an asset. whatever the polling says. to go to his first colts game in three years, the press told to stay in the car, guys. this is going to be a quick hit at tax payer expense, that is tough to take. we send vice presidents to state funerals. that is to inflame a culture war. caroun, it wasn t a surprise. they have been doing this since colin kaepernick started.
the fact trying to find out what he said. was it a surprise? it wasn t a surprise. we made the point to him that it would be better if we could have a chance to some of us had not met him. mike schmidt who is covering the issues as you know, law enforcement reporter, national security reporter hadn t met him. he wrote the comey stories and my fabulous partner on the white house beat does know him really well and she came along with us. it was a mutual thing where we had talked about wanting to have a chance to talk to him, ask him some questions. he had expressed some interest and the staff had expressed the interest in meeting the reporters he hadn t met, but were writing articles about him. i heard one of your colleagues describe him as extremely upbeat. did you get a sense i don t for all of his flaws i don t think he fakes its very well. did you get a sense of why he was so upbeat when he was trashing his attorney general,
that s an important thing because it makes it so much harder for investigators. both in robert mueller s special counsel s office, and also in the senate and the house which are also doing their own investigations for us to get to know what exactly happened in those interactions. we have done, evan, several of freedom of information requests to various government agencies including the secret service asking if there are tapes, and tell our viewers, i think all came back in recent days and said they have no no recording devices there. they have no recording devices. that s what they came back. it wasn t a surprise, per se, because everybody seemed to be completely flummoxed when the president raised this issue in the first place with his tweets. it wasn t a shocker that they tweeted, the secret service had no record of it, none of the other agencies could say they had anything like this. if there was some kind of recording, it would have personally perhaps been made by the preside