there s reason to believe there s a lot more for him to talk about and he clearly has decided he doesn t want to go down on the uss trump. john harwood, who are you looking forward to? gordon sondland. look, gordon sondland plainly either lied or had a massive memory failure when he was asked about his participation in this and whether he knew that there was a quid pro quo. now he says that there is. now he s going to have to account for this holmes conversation, maybe other conversations. who knows, maybe the republicans will say it s hearsay because you heard it from the president. no. right. the president is the commander in chief. he was the one who was in charge of the plan and sondland has the ability to say exactly what he did. well, if they want a transcript of it, malcolm, i guess they could ask the russians for one so they could have it not be hearsay. yeah. well, believe me, they ve get a copy. but i m on the sondland train, too. i really want to see if he
vice president. he was he had been out of office for more than a year when they visited him. that is a flat-out memory failure. i am the same age as he is. i have those memory failures. men that age do. i think that s happening to biden. he couldn t remember whether he was in new hampshire or vermont. he s forgetful, it s confusion. martha: very unlikely he would be in vermont at this stage. exactly. martha: new hampshire is where you want to be. it s also worth noting that his team has expressed some lowering of expectations in iowa, saying if he doesn t win guy a while, it s not going to be a big deal. we are looking at the super tuesday, it reminds me of the rudy giuliani strategy which didn t work out so well. the other parallel is giuliani had a lead that lasted for a long time that year. and then he never got anywhere. i think biden s situation quite
who paid for the dossier, was this a political hit job and so on but the question of collusion which i think is actually across the line on collusion, has yet to be kind of mueller hasn t ruled yet but i think he would. you think it s obvious there s collusion? i think completely obvious. look at number of meetings and learning more about jared kushner getting another approach and trump jr. in touch with julian assange of wikileaks and anyone meeting russians in the story, you saw jeff sessions, suffer from memory failure when they walk off the stage. sounds like a fascinating read. thank you so much for coming by to talk about it. up next, donald trump, does he have a leg to stand on when bashing senator al franken on twitter? and why he hasn t gone after roy moore with the same vi triole if
reporter: yeah, david. you heard him say it, but the bottom line is, there are bipartisan calls in congress to strengthen the background check system, including john cornyn, a prominent republican in the senate, saying that he wants a new law strengthening the current background check system. david? jonathan karl reporting on the president s trip in asia. jon, our thanks to you. and there are also major developments in the russia investigation tonight. a former trump campaign adviser now changing his story in testimony under oath. what he now acknowledges. here s abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross. reporter: tonight, the web of lies, half-truths and memory failure involving russia and the trump campaign is growing larger. the latest thread, carter page, and the disclosure of his congressional testimony about a trip to moscow to give a speech during the campaign. page told me he never talked about the campaign with anyone in the kremlin on the trip. did you meet
longer a mistake. it s a crime. and the president is not the only one with memory failure. we know jeff sessions says he didn t remember either. and i m wondering would he be asked to retestify given what carter page is now saying? i think that is very possible. what we know is that this investigation is ongoing and that it would not be uncommon for those affiliated with mueller to go back and ask followup questions to people they have previously interviewed as more information becomes known based on further interviews. i think what is going doing concerning to the american public although as we just heard this may not directly affect the investigation from the special sell is that voters would like to hear something closer to the lines of, no, this did not happen. or when this came up we shot it down or we said that this is a bad idea. saying things like, well, i cannot recall leaves questions