new york city he said that this all portends the likelihood of impeachable charges being brought against the president of the united states. do you agree with that? you know, i just think that professor litman has gotten a little bit ahead on this. i think that what happened yesterday is significant for kind of three reasons. i think one, this is the national security adviser for the president of the united states. it s one of the most significant jobs in government. and, and so, the president relies on his advice for the national security of our country. and the fact that he committed a felony while national security adviser is significant. i also think it s important as we talked about. because he s cooperating. and then i also think it s significant because of the message that it sends. if you look at his day yesterday, compared to that of paul manafort, mr. manafort didn t cooperate. he got multiple felonies. every crime they could think of they dropped on his head. decades of ex
this, on your knowledge of mueller s portfolio, is this something he can investigate? i think that s a really important question. so we know that there s this pattern now of trump cronies failing to disclose their dealings with russia. paul manafort, michael flynn, trump jr. ryan, kushner, the list goes on. so when special counsel mueller has then interest in failure to disclose, it s been mainly as a means to an end. so when kushner or actually when manafort didn t disclose some of his dealings with the ukraine, at the end of the day, that s not what special counsel mueller is interested in. he s interested in using that as a way to get leverage over manafort to make him cooperate. so if this turns out to be only about the commerce secretary s failure to disclose some of his dealings with the russians but there s no other significance with regard to the collusion investigation, i don t think that mueller will see this as
cooperating and first person to plead guilty in russia-related parts of mueller s probe. if you hear didn t yet hit russia, talking to someone who didn t read today s guilty plea or didn t understand it. it s detailed from kremlin outreach before trump was even the nominee, cultivating relationships for dirt on clinton and getting trump and putin a meeting during the campaign. papadopoulos met with man promising credentials and putin s niece, possibly in london for a more neutral setting. what did the trump aide do to offer? brought to high ranking trump campaign official, reference to paul manafort according to sources today. manafort didn t just ford iward,
i think we have to make it clear the american people if you don t believe that there will be tax breaks for the top 1% while they cut medicare and medicaid and education and affordable housing and child care, if you think that doesn t make sense, if it doesn t make sense to expand military spending by $80 million while you have republicans in congress working to cut social security, if you think that doesn t make sense, you ve got to get involved in the political process. you ve got to stand up and fight back. i ve got to ask you about that. they said we re moving on because they got their butts kicked so badly. now the president is saying we re going to come back and do that. in your caucus, there s part of me, if i was a democratic senator, yes, please try to help
think that doesn t make sense, if it doesn t make sense to expand military spending by $80 million while you have republicans in congress working to cut social security, if you think that doesn t make sense, you ve got to get involved in the political process. you veot tand up and fight back. i ve got to ask you about that. they said we re moving on because they got their butts kicked so badly. now the president is saying we re going to come back and do that. in your caucus, there s part of me, if i was a democratic senator, yes, please try to help pass this terrible bill. that s right. the bill is going to be even worse. chris, here is my view. there is no state in this country, not kansas, not alabama, not mississippi, no