that access helped trump inch closer to his white whale, a trump to ywer in moscow. and now that s on the radar of bob mueller. joining us right now is tar tara dowdell and tim o brien. donald trump has had an obsession with russia since the 1980s when there were all these op sed -eds in the newspapers s he should be the negotiator for the nukes. then he goes on the apprentice, becomes famous and is attractive to russian oligarchs. he goes to the miss universe pageant and this happens. according to the washington post, trump writes a letter to vladimir putin who was a kgb agent when he was so thirsty for
trump brought marketing mojo. let s listen to him talking to thomas roberts in 2013 when thomas roberts was a part of the miss universe pageant. the book talks about this. do you have a relationship with vladimir putin, conversational relationship or anything that you feel you have sway or influence over his government? i do have a relationship. he s interested in what we re doing here today. he s probably interested in what you and i are saying today. he s done a brilliant job in terms of what he represents and who he s representing. if you look at what he s done with syria, if you look at so many different things, he has really eaten our president s lunch. let s not kid ourselves. he s done an amazing job. he put himself really as a lot of people would say at the forefront of the world as a leader in a short period of
of finding solutions. having said that, there are going to be a lot of factories that are going to be worse off because of these steel tariffs because those factories that need competitive steel prices to build cars, build other products, they re going to be less competitive because their costs are going to be higher because of tariffs. it s interesting, john, i think for a lot of trump s base and there are some democrats who very much opposed tpp who were actually opposed to the idea of free trade, their perception is one thing but the reality is another. i think many would be surprised to find out that the number one supplier of steel to the u.s. is canada and then brazil, not countries that you would normally think, and then south korea and mexico. in terms of aluminum, the number one suppliers are again canada and then russia, united arab emirates and china. is this a misperception by a lot of american workers as to what is really causing factory closures? that s part of it, jo
rick scott hard. they hit the bill hard but they didn t lay a hard glove on rick scott because they know they need him long run. the very encouraging thing, the lessons out of florida right now is first states can lead where washington fails to. second, citizens can lead. i think we ll see an assault weapons ban on the ballot in florida in 2020. if you are a republican today not speaking about more reasonable gun control, you re out of step with the heart of the country. absolutely. marks, nadine, david, brandon, thank you all. just a quick note, one of the leaders of the student movement, emma gonzalez, will be speaking tonight at the equality florida gala. the organization is honoring student leaders of the stoneman douglas high school gay/straight alliance of which emma is the president. for more information head to equality florida.org/miami gala. coming up, after being okay with donald trump calling nazis good people, calling mexicans
evidence comes out as the investigation continues. most significantly you have manafort under indictment in two cases where they re hoping to get him a good 15, 20-year sentence and then force him to testify. nothing will happen any too soon. you ve been a prosecutor and a defense lawyer. i can see them making the request, but it s not going to happen. it s not going to happen but everyone has to understand what are they supposed to do. trump s team has to delay the interview of trump and put as many obstacles in the path that are legally justifiable. sure. this being one of them. at least make the motion. the reason they got to be afraid is donald trump is in a sticky situation. he s known to lie. he also apparently has said some things that they could ask other people about that could put him in jeopardy of potential obstruction. the new york times reporting that mr. porter, rob porter, eventually let go because he was abusing his former wives told