maria, paris, thank you. up next, more missed signals. we re learning more about a call to the fbi tip line just weeks before the massacre describing a man who was, quote, about to explode. details on that next.
when he says if you look at my financials, that is my line in the sand. he never released his taxes. he has never talked about what his russia business involvement is. and to me that is like putting forward a neon sign on the white house that says i m guilty, when it comes to how indebted he is to the russians in terms of money laundering and issues of his business transactions. i mean, there s a reason why he has not put the sanctions that both congress and, you know, everybody involved in the sanctions process has said we need to put on russia. he has yet to say one negative thing about putin. first of all, about putin hardly. sanctions on russia, more to come, and the last thing he hasn t seen them. maria, you re innocent until proven guilty. the president, the campaign, they re innocent. and there s been no showing of any collusion with russia. and that s yet. that s something you have to all right, we ll leave it there for now.
we re going to talk about that and more with my panel right now. cnn political commentators maria c cardona and paris denard joining me. good to see you, fred, welcome to d.c. thank you, always great to be here. manafort is maintaining his innocence. is this an issue of pressuring manafort to cooperate, that perhaps there is more? or is there simply about prosecuting manafort? i think it s pushing manafort to see what he knows. we clearly have seen that this is a very serious effort on behalf of mueller to find out how closely this gets to the trump campaign. let s remember that this is the third person in rick gates that has essentially agreed to do a plea and the second person in his inner circle, after michael flynn. so i do think that it is not just putting pressure on manafort but putting pressure on whoever is in trump s inner circle so they are looking over trump s circle to say this is
jones defeated roy moore. this is a win democrats are still cheering heading into the 2018 midterms. now, democrats have high hopes in success. they have a bigger challenge of winning back voters trust in states that was flipped from blue to red in 2016. is the party still provided? i will let you talk about this with our columnist with the dallas morning news. cnn political commentator maria c cardona. marie ma mar maria, doug jones winning in alabama, is a rejection of the gop or from one man? i think it was a little bit
it s not a popular vote election. something that really raises the ire of the president-elect because that is another thing that he tweeted about and it s an outright lie. when you have the president-elect tweeting outright lies, what kind of president of the united states are we going to have when he doesn t understand that his words can move markets, his words can start wars? maria, what s the outright lie? the outright lie is that millions of people illegally voted for hillary clinton. that is he s basing that commentary on pew research. there are many people it s a lie. anthony, anthony i know you re upset i know you re upset about the election but let s have a civil discourse it s dylan s turn. it s very far from a lie anthony, i m not upset about anything. there s just one thing we do and we call out facts and lies. there are two lies. one, there is absolutely no