tax cuts when you should be talking about treason. he might have been briefly thought that was a celebration as the flags did say trump on them, but those were russian flags being thrown at the american president in the capitol this morning. as that protester shouted, quote, the president has conspired with the russian government. the washington post reports, quote, the hillary clinton campaign and the democratic national comittee helped fund research that resulted in a now famous dossier containing allegations about donald trump s kecks to russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the kremlin people familiar with the matter said. nbc news tonight has confirmed this report. let s talk about it tonight with jeremy bash, also a national security analyst for us. jeremy, you spent just enough time in politics to live to tell about it. you were on the gore legal team for the recount.
on twitter, quote, i asked vp pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled disrespecting our country. i am proud of him and second lady karen. all of it led philip bump of the washington post that it refen forced the obvious conclusion that pence s appearance at the game and his well coordinated exit from it was stapled. the president added this on twitter just today, quote, the trip by vp pence was long planned. he s receiving great praise for leaving game after the players showed such disrespect for country. and members of the president s staff played offense today. it takes a lot to get that man s blood boiling and to refer to someone who is standing up for the flag and all it represents to hundreds of millions of americans and all it signals to the world, our vet answer, our unity, the founding of our great nation, to call that a political stunt is stuly outrageous, egregious and offensive. let s talk about it tonight.
the white house seems to have a new strategy as you may have noted when it comes to dealing with this ongoing russia investigation. new york times reports that it basically goes like this. respond to all of robert mueller s requests and ask him to publicly clear the president. when it s all over. the times writes, quote, once mr. mueller has combed into the evidence, mr. trump s lawyers plan to ask him to affirm that plut is not under investigation either for colluding with russian operatives or for trying to obstruct justice. let s talk about it tonight. and with us to do that jill wine-banks is back with us. former assistant watergate counsel. jill, you are fond of finding all the statements that are aimed at an audience of one. is this the president with an idea, goes to his legal team and
the white house seems to have a new strategy as you may have noted when it comes to dealing with this ongoing russia investigation. the new york times reports that it basically goes like this. respond to all of robert mueller s requests, then ask him to publicly clear the president when it s all over. the times writes, quote, once mr. mueller has combed through the evidence, mr. trump s lawyers plan to ask him to affirm that mr. trump is not under investigation either for colluding with russian operatives or for trying to obstruct justice. let s talk about it tonight. and with us to do that, jill wine-banks is back with us, former assistant watergate special counsel and an msnbc legal analyst. jill, you are fond of finding all the statements that are aimed at an audience of one. is this the president with an idea, goes to his legal team and says, let s offer this? it s a very good legal
represents to hundreds of millions of americans and all it signals to the world, our veterans, our unity, the founding of our great nation, to call that a political stunt is truly outrageous, egregious and offensive. well, let s talk about it tonight. we are joined by philip bump, national correspondent for the washington post and andy martino, a veteran reporter and columnist in both news and society and sports currently a contributor with huffington post. gentlemen, welcome. so, philip, you instantly had no doubt and how, if your conclusion and the evidence we ve seen is correct, how angry should taxpayers be? because wild spending on aircraft flights has been in the news of late. it has. we don t know exactly how much this cost and there s been a lot of attention paid to the cost of the flights in part because we can calculate that. we know how much it costs to fly air force 2. the ancillary costs, added security, the cost of getting mike pence from the airport to the stadium, a