staff. steve: in russia. brian: a leaker but being charged with wasteful scawn derg of fuel. arrested evidently final of them. hills higher ups, military officers. four of his generals are dead. and now, according to his rhetoric on nightly news last night and the night before. he is not no longer talking about nazi regime has to be ousted, ukraine being a phony country. is he no longer saying is he going to capture kyiv. now he is talking about the relevance of the donbas region and the need to get new roads in crimea. could this be the ground could he be getting his public ready for truce talks? steve: well, let s hope so. rachel: earlier in the week we heard video from zelenskyy speaking directly to russian soldiers saying, listen, we hear your conversations, we are able to intervene those conversations between you and your family. we know you don t really want to be here. put your weapons down. we don t want to kill you and you don t want to be here. well, arnold schwarze
but that s what he ll be looking forward. it will be a limited and long inquiry. and not a substitution for a full congressional inquiry. katie, you don t need to remind you, trump has been falsely publicly calling adam schiff a leaker, constantly calling for an investigation. how could that be used as evidence now? well, it would just be evidence that there was the complete and total politicization of the department of justice during the trump administration. i mean, you know, there s actual supreme court precedent, alicia, concerning federal grand jury subpoenas because that s exactly what was used in this case as the vehicle by which the records were obtained for 73 phone numbers and at least 16 email addresses from apple. this prior supreme court precedent says that these grand jury subpoenas, although they can be readily issued as long as they re generally relevant to an investigation, they can never be used as a fishing expedition,
it will be a skplimtd long inquiry. katie, i don t need to remind you, trump had been falsely publicly calling adam schiff a leaker, constantly calling for an investigation. how could that be used as evidence now? well, it would just be evidence that there was the complete and total politicization of the department of justice during the trump administration. i mean, you know, there s actual supreme court precedent, alicia, concerning federal grand jury subpoenas because that s exactly what was used in this case as the vehicle by which the records were obtained for 73 phone numbers and at least 16 email addresses from apple. this prior supreme court precedent says that these grand jury subpoenas, although they can be readily issued as long as they can t be used if the targets of those subpoenas are done out of malice or for some
well, i m not sure how i would rate it in terms from an a-plus to an f-minus but in terms of some of the footage you were showing there, within the white house and without it, if not under the direct direction from the president of the united states himself is done with his sometimes explicit blessing. that first clip you showed of sarah huckabee sanders at the friday white house afternoon press briefing, according to people i ve been speaking to in the white house over the past couple of days, the president had a meeting with sarah sanders in the oval office shortly before she went on as he usually does, but what made this meeting in the oval office different from others is that president trump specifically told press secretary sarah huckabee sanders to basically tear james comb i apart when she got in front of the cameras, to mfa sympathize he is by their estimation, a
that was laughed at by anyone that heard steve talk about bannon. he s been saying he s a self-promoter a leaker. this was his coming out party. quite a party it was. i want to talk about some reporting you did earlier today. after days and days of waiting, steve bannon appears to finally understand just how much damage he has done to himself. he released a lengthy statement today to jonathan swan backtracking the comments attributed to him in michael wolff s book. he says he, quote, his support is unwavering for the president and his agenda. wolff, of course, quoted bannon as calling donald trump jr. s meeting with russians at trump tower in 2016 treasonous. bannon s statement reads in part, my comments were aimed at paul manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the russians operate. he should have known they are duplicitous, couning and not our friends. those comments were not aimed at don jr.