With the russian story and found zero proof, so now they go for Obstruction Of Justice on the phony story. Nice. Thats trump in tweet. Joining me now are three National Security reporters, charlie savage, adam entous and shane harris. Shane, youve got the story which follows up on what we had last night, that the Special Counsel is looking at the president for Obstruction Of Justice. My question is how do you have to add to that . What you have now is you have the president both trying to convince Director Rogers of the nsa to come out and shoot down these issues of collusion, but also privately still continuing to doubt the very intelligence that the nsa collected that led to the conclusion that russia interfered in the election. Weve seen trump publicly talk about the fact he thinks theyre nothing to russia, but to know that hes now saying this privately and continuing to argue with one of his intelligence chiefs about that, i think really reveals the degree to which this has
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hearing other democrats saying let s play ball with making some changes to the john lewis voting rights act and senate 1 bill that is much broader and deals with anti-corruption issues. i do think progressives are, you know, under the microscope here, and many are not okay with watering down on infrastructure and vettingoting rights. in the house, democrats have five votes to play with unless they get republicans onboard and it makes it a very tricky discussion. you are also hearing from democrats, yeah, joe manchin is for all these things, and you heard mitch mcconnell he s not particularly interested in allowing any of his members to go forward and vote for any voting rights bill, and it calls into question whether it is true that what manchin is for is also what will get you to 60 votes. many democrats are saying that s not the case.
political spectrum to do something on gun safety. remember last week, it was nancy pelosi and chuck schumer who said the president is willing to do something, we will stand next to him in the rose garden. i believe it was just manchin who said the bill we re working on, we ll name it after the president. so in that case, there are democrats that are saying president trump, let s play ball. that is possible. and he has said at various points during his presidency, especially after mass shootings have taken place, he s sent signals that would suggest that is b possible but when you lock at the actions rather than the words, there is little indication that he s going to decisively defy the national rifle association and move and gunman fakihturers and move in that direction. maybe background check. maybe red flag laws as you suggest. overwhelming numbers of the american people support them. solid majority support an assault weapons ban, but i think
whether you think, gee, maybe i can get away with this, you look at this indictment, you think, you know what? maybe i better place a call here to the special prosecutor s office in the southern district in new york or someone in the justice department and say, you know, maybe i will come clean. for michael cohen, for paul mana fort, though he s already indicted, be you still in play as someone that could flip. for many others, this is a signal that mueller knows an awful lot and assuming there is some collusion with americans, which i think is pretty hard to doubt at this point, i think this is his way of signaling those americans, you know, let s play ball here. and the first let me go to evelyn and then back to you, john. sure. well, what strikes me, ari, is that there s no 400-pound guy in new jersey, there are 12 faces with names. and mueller actually lays out the organization, he says, these are the two guys in charge, here are the people that did x, y and z. most of th
the justice department and say, maybe i will come clean. i think for michael cohen and paul manafort because he is already indicted and for many, many others and many others we don t know much about at this point. this is a signal that mueller knows an awful lot. assuming there is some collusion with americans, which i think is pretty hard to doubt at this point, i think this is his way of signaling those americans, you know, let s play ball here. in the first indictment let me go to evelyn and back to you, john. all right. what strikes me, ari, no 400-pound guy in new jersey, 12 faces with names and mueller actually lays out the organization. he says these are the two guys in charge. here are the people who did x, y and z. most of them were actually taking information out and a couple of them were then sending the information into that, you know, the twitter sphere and the other part of it or the other indictments that we have already seen from him. those are the social medi