with the public is a different thing. we ve seen this script before. attacking a prosecutor is something politicians tend to do when they re in trouble. you saw not just what steve bannon is saying. you saw roger stone and other sometime adviser to the president saying that he should create an investigation that would get robert mueller conflicted out. you saw some conservative activists saying that the president should fooir robert mueller saying he s he can seeded his mandate. i think any of those tactics would simply inflame an already flammable situation and it would definitely cause a storm on capitol hill, not just among democrats but certainly among at least some republicans. peter, use a wider lens and tell me about washington. what happened to the trump administration accident the trump agendas of today and wider still, he leaves at the end of this week for the most consequential trip of his presidency and by the way, it may include a visit to the dmz.
translated into english. three people today mentioned. who has been charged with what? manafort and gates were charged, indicted by a federal grand jury with multiple counts, 12 counts of money laundering, tax revags, conspiracy to defraud the united states, all related to a covert russian influence operation in an effort to lobby washington and other clals secretly, hide the payments and exert influence over policy. manafort has been doing this for about a decade. now, let s go to the other legal case. that was a case against george papadopoulos in which he pleaded guilty. so he is now a convict. he s been convicted of a crime. sl usc is 001, lying to the feds. you can t do that. he did that in two interviews to the fbi in january and february of this yoerment he was picked up, as you noted in dull has airport on july 27thment and he has been turning states evidence, cooperating with the feds, possibly wearing a wire, telling all he knows and he
savings in it which were significant enough to make it much easier to do tax reform because the worry about tax reform as you are going to redo some taxes and try to come out in a way that you don t add to the deficit and that s hard to do. if you have budget savings as a result of another bill, makes the job easier. as a practical matter, this becomes much harder. not to mention the fact that it s not at all clear that the republican caucus with this group that seems determined to say no to almost anything, it s not a dependable ally. the job going forward for the next thing becomes harder, not to mention the fact that when you do tax reform, they are going be special interest groups who lose their tax breaks. they are going to lobby washington. on top of the fact is that you are not going to get much if any
this bill had some budget savings in it which were significant enough to make it much easier to do tax reform because the worry about tax reform as you are going to redo some taxes and try to come out in a way that you don t add to the deficit and that s hard to do. if you have budget savings as a result of another bill, makes the job easier. as a practical matter, this becomes much harder. not to mention the fact that it s not at all clear that the republican caucus with this group that seems determined to say no to almost anything, it s not a dependable ally. the job going forward for the next thing becomes harder, not to mention the fact that when you do tax reform, they are going be special interest groups who lose their tax breaks. they are going to lobby washington. on top of the fact is that you are not going to get much if any
beltway watching this, you re looking at that camera and seeing a town that s very impressed with itself, very enamored with itself. you see big business viewing this as the single best opportunity to lobby washington. if you are those people for whom the american dream is just out of reach, if you say those are the people who are supposed to be taking care of me, those are the people who are supposed to help me out and how out of sync are their priorities when here is the biggest night, just a huge orgy of self-celebration, and the people outside of the beltway, their viewpoint is there is nothing to celebrate here. before we go to break, d.l. this is like the oscars, full of movies nobody saw. or cared about. so i think it is really much like hollywood, much like music,