politics, it s not real the point. the incentive structure is about winning at the end of the day. ultimately that could supplant principle. whatever the benefits of more people having their voices heard, there could be incredibly negative consequences of that, as well in terms of the backlash being greater than ever. i wonder, it s been a year since all of there. i have literally 20 seconds left. harvey weinstein and on and on. how much progress has been made? it is a constant conversation. the culture has changed. this isn t really just about fixing the past. this is about changing the future. thank you, all. i wish we all had more time. this is a fascinating conversation. thanks. have a good weekend. thank you. you too. next i want to talk about the guilty verdict in the trial of a white police officer who shot and killed a black chicago teenager and how that verdict sends a message to people who wonder whether justice will be hard to come by in the future. i m alex treb
negative consequences of that, as well in terms of the backlash being greater than ever. i wonder, it s been a year since all of there. i have literally 20 seconds left. harvey weinstein and anon and on. how much progress has been made. it is a constant conversation. the culture has changed. this is about changing the futuring. > thank you all. i wish we had more time. this is a fascinating conversation. thanks. have a good weekend. you, too. next i want to talk about the guilty verdict in the trial of a white police officer who shot and killed a black chicago teenager and how that verdict sends a message to people who wonder whether justice will be hard to come by in the future. my mom washes the dishes.
news last night, and we ll someplaplay some of this over the course of the three hours we re with you this morning, the president s really going after michael cohen, trying to diminish the type of relationship he had with him over the years. and michael, i m sure you ve covered this president for a long time before this. in 2012, there was never a time when i was following donald trump, as he was considering whether to run for president, when michael cohen wasn t there. he is someone who has been around the president and very close to him for a long time, despite what the president now says. yeah, you know, i wonder whether, when we looked at sarah sanders briefing yesterday and she was quite subdued, she didn t, you know, she wasn t her normal, feisty, giving all sorts of different answers, she sort of in a mono-kind of way repeated the same phrases over and over again, and i do wonder whether, that is because it s impossible to distance the president and this white house from mich
they concluded, general clapper, who said that russia s overarching aim was to degrade our trust in the democratic process. so russia s interference in the election would have perhaps made us wonder whether, the extent to which they might of influence people s thinking. under no circumstances are anyone ever said that russia succeeded. that s an unknown. it s impossible to prove that. when general clapper wrote in his book recently that russia had actually tilted the election to president trump, he admitted that he wasn t privy to any intelligence since the publication of his own report that would have swayed him, one way or the other. it s just speculation. i would tell you, having spent the better part of 30 years in the u.s. government with the cia, you speculated your own peril. you got to stick to the facts. shannon: good advice for all of us. a piece in the washington post by max boot, he concludes, without the russian influence effort, i believe trump would not have been e
well we ll see first of all whether any of this appears in mueller s report. this is going to be a report but there are also indictments and some contested cases and in the contested cases lawyers have a gold mine to work with defense lawyers, challenging this fisa application, challenging strzok s objectivity. all of this will become a basis for legal proceedings and legal challenges. we ve already seen judge ellis in virginia question the special counsel, wonder whether or not are they only trying to make people sing but also make them compose. the process is a very flawed one and the more the american people know about it, the more distress ed they are at how special counsel operate particularly in the context of political elections. we need to know more not less. we need less redaction, more transparencies and we have the right to judge for ourselves whether or system of justice is operating fairly, within the constitution, and consistent