but here s what s crucial. he is hardly the only one in the white house who apparently supports ripping children from their mothers. john kelly told npr last week that separating families would be a tough deterrent adding the children will be taken care of, put into foster care or whatever. but the into foster care or whatever. that s how john kelly thinks of tearing children away from families. now thanks to the west we have some idea of what whatever means. potentially warehousing children on military bases, children the most vulnerable coming here fleeing danger in their hope countries seeking refuge in this beacon of liberty the united states and there is a reason why people in this administration can think this way of putting children on military bases because crucially they do not see undocumented immigrants as people. from the announcements it of donald trump s presidential campaign he has consistently repeatedly talked about
billion infrastructure fund. it was time to make america great again and thought there could be a marriage between what they were looking for and what trump wanted. so he s here thinking trump ran on infrastructure making america great again. woo we ve got money to invest in the u.s. maybe we can find ways to invest in infrastructure that help everybody out. yeah, trump name checked their airports during the campaign. he trashed new york airports and said if you go to doe harkes you should see the airports over there. back in doha, they re like hey, we can build these airports over here for you. let s do this. they were as stunned as every other country and every other american at that time. this is december, 2016. people are trying to figure out you know, who this administration is and how do you business with them. and so michael cohen and him are talking about this kind of idea, some idea of that fund investing in the u.s. and then what happens? it started to get weird when
billionaire and has a lot of money. cohen takes a home equity loan out to pay the $130,000. right before election. . the whole thing smells. indeed, there that this campaign contribution of $130,000 it s not just a campaign contribution. it may be the most stith campaign contribution income united states history. it turned an election. you know, the idea that the trump lawyers are standing around saying it s for his personal life or something like that is to use the technical legal term poppy cock. neal katyal, thanks for being with me. more breaking news to tell you about. it has been a wild day. the new yorker speaking to a law enforcement official who claims to be the individual who leaked michael cohen s bank records. a whistle-blower. the official had grown alarmed after being unable to find two important reports on cohen s financial activity in a government database. the official worried that that information was being with head
michael cohen floats there an unorthodox approach. he says look, how about and this is kind of a fictional version of america but he says something like, how about we find a midwestern town where a steel plant is about to close down and you guys buy the steel plant and you know, millions of partners come in or partners come in who have the know how and they run it. you save the town. you save the steel plant. and then you split the profits 50/50 with the partners and you guys. everybody wins. he says he s thinking well, certainly there are a lot of winners in this scenario but the people who just kind of get to own half of a factory are among those. at that point, he says, well, what kind of projects do you have in mind. he says before we go any further, i ll need $1 million. michael cohen first floats some crazy let s go into business idea 50/50, your money,
meeting but you may be trying to figure out. trump junior seems the one person will go for just about any opportunity that comes up. rosalynn, goldstone and others seemed freaked out. they seem that s one thing that comes across is, maybe they didn t know what they were doing or what they were enmeshed in but there s panic in some of those e-mails. we hear from goldstone he warned the russians, warned the aglavrovs he thought this was a bad idea. when it goes south, he reminds them repeatedly he had told them this was a bad idea. this seemed to be some understanding. the aglab rove s own employee said when he got wind there might be dirt about hillary clinton involved he thought about backing out even though he was sort of required to be there because he was actually a clinton supporter. everyone s alarm bells except the people working for the campaign. rosalynn and clint watts, thank you both. we ve got more ahead. congressman adam schiff will be