had published stolen documents and was observed to be releasing information that benefitted russian interests. quote, we can say with confidence we have no concerns about these documents. what do you make of this? again, congresswoman, we re back into this endless contact between the trump people and the russians. they seem to think it s fine and dandy to flirt back and forth, exchange offers back and forth without any sense that this might be a hostile power. you know, the more documents that i read, the more convinced i get that there was intentional coordination between donald trump s campaign and the russians. julian assange was an operative for russia. now this is the same person that the president when he was a candidate, i love julian assange. i love wikileaks. we have mike pompeo who has called him and wikileaks a nonstate organization that is an
it s all over. and i think we ll be able to make the definitive conclusion that there was coordination. it sounds like a gangster movie. somebody is going to sing. thank you so much. u.s. congresswoman jackie speier of california where i m at right now, and john sipher. thanks for your article and thanks for coming in. coming up, he see already running, but should democrats be looking to put a fresh face at the top of the ticket? anyway, the folks of saturday night live are mocking the party as old and out of touch. actor bradley whitford is here to talk than in his new spielberg film the post . this is hardball, where the action is. david. what s going on? oh hey! that s it? yeah. everybody two seconds! dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. through the tuition assistance program,
he does hope for some kind of rapprochement that helps to do business with them regard to north korea and with regard to the middle east, especially syria. and the third option, i don t know what he is doing here. he is not telling the truth himself. that he know there s was meddling, and he damn well isn t going to admit it. what do you think? congresswoman, where are you on that? the option or interpretation of why trump seems to have this resistance to change bromance with mr. putin? well, there is a couple of reasons, i believe. one is the bromance is something that has a lot to do with how he got elected. i think it doesn t fit his script if in fact we make the clear statement, which we already have, 17 agencies, 17 intelligence agencies have said that russia meddled in the election. but if they meddled in the election, then he is not necessarily the president of the united states, because it s
and never once did i doubt that the president, then candidate trump, was engaged on every detail. he ran he ran a family company. so he was he was trained to kind of be involved with everything. and i believe that donald trump jr. and his father were in constant communication. last question. yes or no, do you think the good guys are going to catch them? well, i will leave it to others to decide if crimes were committed here. but there is no doubt that this activity over time is unethical, immoral, and unpatriotic. and again, like i said, it shows at least a willings to collude and consistently do the wrong thing when given a choice. same choice to congressman speier. will the good guys catch them? the good guys typically win out. i think we ll have any number of indictments and i think some people are going to sing before
lobbying work and saying, for the purpose of this conversation, yes, there was influence peddling, we ll put some of it on nightly news tonight. it s fascinating, when you put it all together, looking backwards. it seems in many ways this day may well have been inevitable. cynthia mcfadden, ari mel better. thanks to both of you. california democratic congressman, jackie spears is a member of the house intelligence committee, which is conducting its own russia investigation. always good to see you congresswoman, how are you? i m great, chris, how are you? interesting today, what do you make of the indictments? well, the indictments were, i think, predictable. months ago, i thought it would be tax evasion before it was anything else. that s often times how people get tripped up, i think what s really important to point out, though, is that manafort was the chairman of his campaign during the critical months in march