Unfounded and outrageous allegations wild outbursts on the internet and television while a member of this administration. Cnn contributor walter shab who resigned from the department of ethics last year. President trump drew a direct connection between the russia investigation and his security clearance decision. I call it the rigged witch hunt, it is a sham, and shes people let it i think its something that had to be done. Doesnt that correct what we heard from Sarah Sanders today . If does. To say i consulted with my intelligence community, the cia who holds brennens clearance and they have serious concerns about him continuing to access this information. Instead, he gave an interview to the press and said, this is about my hurt feelings, in doing so, this neuters the Intelligence Committee a key function is to determine who needs clearance he took that away from them and is now judge, jury and xecutioner. This is what Sarah Sanders initially said, watch this . Mr. Brennen has recen
Official. Status to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations wild outbursts on the internet and television while a member of this administration. Cnn contributor walter shab who resigned from the department of ethics last year. Good evening. So much to talk about. President trump spoke to the wall street journal. President trump drew a direct connection between the russia investigation and his security clearance decision. I call it the rigged witch hunt, it is a sham, and shes people let it i think its something that had to be done. Doesnt that contradict what we heard from Sarah Sanders today . If does. To say i consulted with my intelligence community, the cia who holds brennens clearance and they have serious concerns about him continuing to access this information. Instead, he gave an interview to the press and said, this is about my hurt feelings, in doing so, this neuters the Intelligence Committee a key function is to determine who needs clearance he took that and a
Lets talk about all of these threats facing the president. Im going to start with Tony Schwartz who tweeted on friday, the other shoe has dropped. The smoking gun equivalent to nixons tapes. Allen weisselberg knows everything. Trump will resign as ive always assumed. Only a matter of time now. Your thoughts. This is catastrophic as Tony Schwartz. Trump is in big trouble. We could talk about tractortrailertorial strategy or mother whip. My mother said youre going to find out who your real friends are when youre in trouble. Turns out the president doesnt have real friends. Hes got staffers, employees, when push comes to shove, they stand up and flip. He doesnt even have a dog. He has eric. Elie would think, okay. I was going to go this way. Now im going to go this way. You wrote a piece going after family. You mentioned eric on your blog you said Allen Weisselberg immunity deal shows prosecutors going after the family, not the business. You dont need Allen Weisselberg to get cohn. Cohn i
We will the jury will have this case tomorrow night. It seems like the defense was pretty restful before they rested. You know what i mean . Like not only did they not put the defendant on the stand, which of course would have been amazing blockbuster drama, but they didnt put any other witnesses on the stand, nor did they introduce evidence, substantial evidence. So its i mean, this is a legitimate and mainstream legal theory about how you defend your client, you try to create the impression in the jury that the prosecution doesnt even bear responding to their case was so weak. But those closing arguments tomorrow are going to be a big deal. Its going to be fascinating. Theres one line of evidence in this case that stands completely unrefuted by the defense. There was no crossexamination on this. And that was a treasury official getting on the stand and saying Paul Manafort did not report the existence of the following foreign bank accounts. Thats the description of a crime, for the d
They didnt put any other witnesses on the stand, nor did they introduce evidence, substantial evidence. So its i mean, this is a legitimate and mainstream legal theory about how you defend your client, you try to create the impression in the jury that the prosecution doesnt even bear responding to their case was so weak. But those closing arguments tomorrow are going to be a big deal. Its going to be fascinating. Theres one line of evidence in this case that stands completely unrefuted by the defense. There was no crossexamination on this. And that was a treasury official getting on the stand and saying Paul Manafort did not report the existence of the following foreign bank accounts. Thats the description of a crime, for the defense not to put something on the stand to refute that, to say it wasnt Paul Manaforts responsibility, something, anything, theres no defense on that. No. There was discussion on crossexamination im going to get this exactly. There was . Discussion of was Paul M