mitch mcconnell who is very much supporting senator flake as he does all the republican incumbent. this is an interesting point, kimberly. the republican establishment is supporting jeff flake. certainly the trump allies don t have a friend in arizona s other senator who has a great deal of affection from arizona residents john mccain. the trump folks are supporting kelly ward at least for the moment. and now arpaio possibly sticks a toe into this. what does this play out and look like for you? does it even look like republicans might lose this senate seat given what s going on? that s a real possibility. that s one of the things that mitch mcconnell and other establishment republicans are worried about. they want to put their support behind jeff frak and he is one of the more vulnerable republicans up for re-election in 2018. a all the talk .primary challenges and getting the president behind one or maybe now two primary challengers if
insight into why he marred pardoned the sheriff joe as the hurricane charged toward texas. politicians from both parties criticized the pardon, including arizona senator jeff flake who tweeted he quote would have preferred the president honor the judicial process and let it take its course. now today arpaio added fuel to the feud, addressing the possibility that he would run for flake s senate seat in 2018. he told the washington examiner i m sure getting a lot of people around the state asking me to challenge state all i m saying the is door the is open. we ll see what happens. i know what sport i have. phillip rucker and kimberly are still with me. fill i want to correct something. finland and sweden have security alliance was nato but don t fall under the same article 5 obligation for nato countries. i apologize as well for.
the election. how many times do i have to answer this question. can you just say yes or no i know you have to get up and ask a question so important. russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. haven t made a phone call to russia in years. don t speak to people from russia. not that i wouldn t i just have nobody to speak to i spoke to putin twice he called me on the election. i told you this. he called me on the inauguration a few days ago. i have nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge no person that i deal with does. kimberly that was february, pretty strenuous, no person i deal with has anything to do with russia. he has been dmielg that only that neither he more anyone in the circle have any contact with russia. he denied any business dealings with russia taurl. we learned now there was at least an attempt to create a deal for a trump tower in moscow. so he is constantly contradicting himself on this. that s probably one reason why
kimberly one doesn t have to be a lawyer or journalist to remember that donald trump jr. had said in release to the june 9th meet he didn t really know it was. a friend asked him to take it. he wasn t sure the topic. and then suddenly days later we see all the emails in which he said he was excited about the school on hillary clinton. at some point the pattern of dishonesty was established when the emails were release zbld in between those two things we had several statements from donald trump jr. sort of amending the one before as you said right there in the email not only was he aware what the meeting was about but that he was recommending timing about the release of such damaging information on hillary clinton. and so, yes, i mean that weighs to the credibility of every person of interest in this investigation. and i think to what extent if at all the president played a role in trying to craft that message about around what this meeting
that s right. and ask that he had a attorney general sessions. it wasn t a clear directive necessary or and there was no formal review that the justice department did. but trump did actually ask sessions whether it would be possible to drop that case altogether before the trial even began. he was told that would be inappropriate. but it represents a real sort of crossing of this this divide between the executive branch or rather between the white house and the justice department. that is not the typical behavior of a president interfering with a criminal case like that. phil rucker can be, kimberly thanks for the reporting tonight. coming up what does the latest show of aggression mean for the white house dealing with a huge cries at home. more on that when the 11th hour continues. how do you chase what you love with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis? do what i did. ask your doctor about humira. it s proven to help relieve pain and protect joints