donald trump not only knows him but knows he was involved in organized crime? on both counts, joy, it is undisputable. he knows exactly who he is and knew he had ties to organized crime. when i was at the new york times, i wrote a book about the president, trump nation. when he sued me for libel in that case we deposed him two days in late 2007 and specifically asked him about his relationship with felix sader and whether it concerned him that he had organized crime ties. and at the time president trump said that he would have to look into the matter further, he would consider it, la la la. that was 2007. the relationship apparently never ended. earlier this year in yet another strange turn in many strange turns we have become used to, sader emerged as a trio along with the president s personal
what the actions of this administration are because it is going to get worse. does say something about the state that they re in, that they re having to send out sebastian gork and subject in the guardian that his firm was steal millions, this firm raising money off the religious, having them give to his organizations and it was going to his family, that s what they have left to send out. that s what they do, trump deals with shady characters. we saw it when he was ceo of his organization and now as president. unfortunately it is going to hurt us. and the other thing i wanted to point out, let s not forget a week ago with a white house statement that was basically a lie. which one? the one of don junior. it was an outright lie and it was a cover up. you have the white house being involved in a cover up. republicans don t have the backbone yet to stand up to trump. i am talking about saying
there are gay republicans, there are republicans who lost their lives to gun violence, but they want to work and put food on the table. and until we understand that and we understand it and talk about it, they are going to be over there. okay. i want to go to fernando, get you to respond. there s polling out now that even in trump counties, counties where trump carried, and this is released this morning, this is our nbc poll. strongly approve 29%, strongly disapprove, 35. these were counties polled in the nbc poll. 439 trump counties. consists of gop democrats and independents, colorado, georgia, et cetera. you can see the map. look at flip versus surge counties. romney won them and trump won them or flip meaning obama won and then trump won. in flip counties, approval 44,
very bad judgement was exercised. i agree that point. i think that donald trump jr. should have conducted him snefl a different manner. i also believe that it s inappropriate for a foreign government to be involved in any american election. i do think that it challenges the integrity of our elections. there isn t any disagreement on that. just donald trump jr., what about the others? what about the meeting that jared kushner had secretly with a russian bank in which he attempted he wanted to and expressed a willingness to set up closed communications that would be out of the ear shot of the intelligence community? or donald trump himself who seems to have called on russia to continue to hack hillary clinton in the dnc s e-mails? just trump jr. or the entire team? one thing you have to understand, is again, are we talking about do we have sufficient evidence to call this a crime? that s what the investigation is for. that s what the investigation is for. that s what the inve
there are a lot of sparks here. where there is smoke, there is fire. maybe there was not collusion yet. but the fact that donald trump jr. was willing to accept information from a hostile government to help his father win the election is a very, very important matter. and if america s democracy fails, our economy fails. so, you know, what our what mr. london is telling us, i kment believe it. it doesn t smell pass the sniff test. yet, you know, rosa brooks that, is the talking point among trump supporters. this is, you know, gone from collusion didn t happen to okay, fine if, they did, it s no big deal. there is no crime here, it s fine. and as somebody who worked for the pentagon, as somebody who has been in the business of the defense of this country, how does that strike you when you hear, okay, we re making too big of a deal of russian meddling in an american campaign? i guess the idea is that we shouldn t be in high dungeon we