Contact us by the disgust he felt watching Media Coverage of the russia story. Not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. The russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 president ial campaign. Intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. He just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. The story he told us is astonishing. We will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. At first, heres an overview of what he told us. Media reports describe Paul Manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as Donald Trumps campaign chairman. According to our source, thats only half true. He is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. In fact, Paul Manafort spent years working with the Podesta Group on behalf of russian governme
we do look at it when you try to break and overthrow an election. that s like rubio in florida. you re trying to embarrass and smear and harass as many republicans as you can get your hands on in the committee. what do you say to that? i don t know what s happening. i was a jeb supporter and marco was talking about a strong member. he was representing the next generation of republicans and he s gone all-in on the big lie. or sometimes he will walk the line a little bit. the january 6th committee, keep in mind how we got here. kevin mccarthy asked to negotiate a nonpartisan, fair commission. and mccarthy turned against it. it was rejected.
it was merely an awkward response to a question in a live interview. what strikes me and i m curious for your opinion on this, it is actually fairly rare for a cabinet official to disagree with the president in public. and i m curious if that plays into your own daunting feelings, the scales falling from your eyes about russia gate, the fact that the president s own top appointee on intelligence, the spy master of the united states, the intelligence chief, and his performance on that stage at the aspen festival. well, you know, he s normally a very quiet guy and maybe there s something about the air in aspen that led him to be a little more vocal than he normally would be. he s clearly not intending to resign if you re going to walk back something like that. not exactly a profile courage to pick up what walter was saying. there s something about this president that makes people continually bend the knee even when they get out of line a little bit.
this up faster. but i ve seen no evidence to the contrary of the initial assessment that chairman gowdy has made. in the middle there, he was trying to be careful and be differential to the conservatives who are on team trump. but at the beginning and the end, the speaker was saying, mr. president, you re wrong, stop it. yes, in a word, yes, is what he s doing. you also get a peak of what s been going on as ryan has tried to walk a careful line with devin nunes and the conservatives in their conference, and the reason why trey gowdy has been involved in a lot of this. the speaker trusts him, thinks highly of trey gowdy. his role throughout all of this, and gowdy s willingness to talk about this on fox news and his perspective gave ryan an opportunity to talk about something that s happened behind closed doors. gowdy laid this out there. now the speaker has backed it up, walked the line a little bit, but backed it up.
then mainstream media. so it is conservatives in this country are under attack and i think this is a great example of it. kennedy: without a doubt, conservatives are under attack but he didn t have to do the stephen colbert stuff. brian: they watched two people comment on him as he walked through capitol hill. what he s pointing out is if you look at every late-night show and almost every news show, they are all lined up against republicans in particular. he probably wouldn t beyond the air right now if he didn t decide to turn his bazooka on donald trump every single night for 20 minutes. jimmy fallon has straddled the line a little bit, will take his shots. trish: you don t have to watch it. i don t watch stephen colbert.