that s gulen, the muslim cleric, opponent of turkish president erdogan. that, of course, would be a huge breach and completely illegal to allow another country to bribe, we understand that he may have been offered millions of dollars, to allow another country to bribe someone in a position to influence that policy. those decisions, extradition or other means, are not supposed to come from someone at the white house and supposed to come through diplomatic, non-political channels. julia, i want you to keep reading the carter page transcript which i know you have in front of you. we ll come back to you on that in just a moment. i want to go to gene robinson to talk about where the jury that really matters is on this and that is, of course, american voters. we have a very important new poll out tonight, a cnn poll showing that 64% view the russia investigation as a serious matter.
position to influence that policy. those decisions, extradition or other means, are not supposed to come from someone at the white house and supposed to come through diplomatic, non-political channels. julia, i want you to keep reading the carter page transcript which i know you have in front of you. we ll come back to you on that in just a moment. i want to go to gene robinson to talk about where the jury that really matters is on this and that is, of course, american voters. we have a very important new poll out tonight, a cnn poll showing that 64% view the russia investigation as a serious matter. 32% see it as an attempt to discredit donald trump. i think we know who the 32% are. yes. they might have voted for for president. another piece of the poll to consider, gene, which is 59% say they believe that trump knew that his associates were in contact with russians during the
second, trump cut off the other people he says but communicating with and praising on twitter mike flynn after he fired him. and third, most importantly, if you re going to make an obstruction case against donald trump for firing james comey, what was the crime that investigation that trump was trying to obstruct? once you indict michael flynn, that s the crime that donald trump, the investigation of which donald trump was trying to obstruct, when he refuse directed comey to stop and then fired him for not stopping the investigation. so, ron, from the president trump perspective, michael flynn really is possibly the most important player in this whole thing because that is where an obstruction of justice case would reside? exactly. i mean, the other thing scarier is mueller coming after kushner. that s right. other than family, this is the most perilous indictment for donald trump. julia, we need your speed reading assessments of the
administration was responding to the assassination of president ken by. parts of this have been known before but this really brought it home was that then fbi director james that this wasn t a conspiracy that there weren t other people and they realized that from the very beginning because they want to heal this nation and put them back on track. a lot of theme will find that and say wow, they were riding too large. it seems that they realized the more of this difficulties trust and kind of conspiracy thread throughout america at the height of the cold war that that was going to be really difficult for a grieving nation and for a new administration to pull that country together. julia, thank you for that run through. we also want to let people know there will be kind of curated versions of this on our website.
this comes as nbc news reports mueller has expanded his investigation to include this man, veteran washington lobbyist tony podesta and his firm the podesta group for business conducted in ukraine. podesta is the brother of the clinton campaign manager john podesta, who is not a part of this. according to the report the investigation into him and his company began as a fact finding mission into a ukrainian non-profit and paul manafort s role into the campaign. this has now morphed into a criminal inquiry into whether the firm violated the foreign agent s registration act. here to talk about all of it tonight one of the coauthors of that report. so, julia, let s talk about this