taylor. the news was first reported by the washington post which reports that sondland s language in the text was relayed to him directly by trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony. for the washington post, he also plans to testify that he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth. that at that moment, it s only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth. well, joining me now to discuss, david corn, msnbc political analyst and co-author of russian roulette. cynthia oxney and paul butler, both former federal prosecutors and legal analysts. david? well your thoughts? this is a classic case of someone jumping off the ship before he believes the ship goes down because he s out there saying the president told me something. i don t know if it was true, and it makes it look like there s a conspiracy and i m kind of didn t really know what was going on. there s a lot of what he says
as the lead agent, you are the lead body guy. you are in panama city in june of 1992. there are protests and it s gotten to the point where his safety is at risk. with the intelligence that we had, i was very concerned and so we did something a little different. we backed the armored car up to the stage. we had the mrs. with two people with her and i was close to the president and out of sight. when the gunshots went off in the crowd, i was concerned about obviously i couldn t tell where it was coming from. i knew it was hand guns. i knew it wasn t a high powered rifle, but i just decided in a split second i had to get him off of there. he is used to seeing me and if they tell me something, doi it.
issue they are trying to resolve is international technology. that is something that has been an issue for negotiators and american companies for literally decades. i think there is a lot of reason to be skeptical. they want to see specifics and they don t have those right now. the president useded to talk about the chinese behavior. this is not a minor difference. the broader point about the trade and post the g-20, a celebration for the president signing the newus-mexico-canada agreement. he said congress has to pass it as is or it doesn t go into effect when we go back to prenafta. from the midwest, saying no, mr. president, it won t work that way. you don t just sign it away. this doesn t live up to the promise the president said that it would be a renegotiated nafta helping workers and stopping outsourcing. it doesn t do that.
younger and don t remember, the george h. w. bush presidency. you hope maybe a lesson. possible? yeah. before twitter. if there is a lesson, what would george herbert walker bush want the country to think about? he has a sign over his desk as former president that s a quote from william butler yates who said think where man s glory most begins and ends and say mine was that i had such friends. he was tremendously successful at converting people into being his friends. it wasn t like young people would call networking and collecting people s business cards and things like that. this was sustained effort many times through notes like kristin has. written notes to people that they had something tangible to hold on to. george bush wrote me this note and he widened the net and
indication that something is coming, but there is a sense that something could be coming down on roger stone potentially sometime soon. maybe he is sending a signal that don t cooperate the way michael cohen cooperated. roger stone won t testify because that means he would be lying if he turned on the president. not only just the president has a casual relationship with the truth, but many of the central players and roger stone and jerome corsi are known conspiracy theorists and have a record going back 30 or 40 years have a record of saying things that aren t true. they clearly think more is coming. listen to the president s lead lawyer on the radio attacking the special counsel. i think the special prosecutor stepped over the line now with the way he is intimidating people in order to tell what he believes is his version of the truth. this is what s wrong with the