We have the manafort filing that you talked about a moment ago on your show. Were going to get into it a little more. Rachel, thank you, have a wonderful weekend. Tonight, donald trump is once again forcing us to ask what is behind the president s public affection for russia . Its a question weve been asking since at least the summer of 2016 when donald trump and i had this exchange right after he asked russia to hack the emails of the democratic president ial candidate. You said the russians he has no respect. You said i welcome them to find those 30,000 emails. They probably have them. Id like to have them released. Does that not give you pause . No. You know what gives me more pause, that a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton be quiet, i know you want to save her. If russia or china or any other country has those emails, to be honest with you id love to see them. Donald trumps strange affection for russia has now opened a new rift between america and its closest allies
That you talked about a moment ago on your show. Were going to get into it a little more. Rachel, thank you, have a wonderful weekend. Tonight, donald trump is once again forcing us to ask what is behind the president s public affection for russia . Its a question weve been asking since at least the summer of 2016 when donald trump and i had this exchange right after he asked russia to hack the emails of the democratic president ial candidate. You said the russians he has no respect. You said i welcome them to find those 30,000 emails. They probably have them. Id like to have them released. Does that not give you pause . No. You know what gives me more pause, that a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton be quiet, i know you want to save her. If russia or china or any other country has those emails, to be honest with you id love to see them. Donald trumps strange affection for russia has now opened a new rift between america and its closest allies. Before setting off for the
all three are msnbc contributors. also joining us is jennifer tanden, center for american progress, also hillary clinton s policy director during the 2008 campaign. ned, let s start with you, donald trump talking about letting russia back into the g7, making it a g8 again. after all the trade talk and the tensions between him and our allies, how was that comment likely going down in the inner circles of our allies? we saw how it went down. it was widely rejected by virtually all of our european partners and the canadians. only the italians, who have some business interests in putin s government, want to go along with it. there is a broader principal at principle at play here. donald trump has not only alienated the united states from our european allies, canadian allies, he s trying to do something much more dangerous.