was the decision to launch this missile, to take out the drone, was that made at a very low level and not made in tehran? one of the things that comes to mind is that the we have a tendency to look at iran in particular but all enemies, decisions made at the higher level and trickle down and get executed flawlessly. not so anymore. there s something of a gap between the mullahs on one hand, in particular rouhani, and the republican guard, who constantly push the envelope. we ve seen them do it before in the gulf many, many times. in many cases it was because some lower-level commander decided to do something. let me say this, it might get me in trouble but somebody made the parallel today and i think i have a statement from the iran revolutionary guard on the drone. this is a more hawkish if we want to apply american terms to their foreign policy
much money back. that s certainly not evidence of tax fraud. just the loopholes that could exist in the u.s. tax code. it is more detailed how close michael cohen was to this president. there will certainly be questions about insurance fraud. we ve heard something about insurance claims related to damage to mar-a-lago down in florida. just so many question that the house oversight committee will have today. and when you talk about just the drama that s set up today, on one hand, you ll have alexandria ocasio-cortez who never shies away from the spotlight. but on the other hand you ll have jim jordan, a republican, who is a staunch defender of this president, will certainly attack every ounce of credibility of michael cohen he can. now let s talk to zach right now, zach wolf is here joining us from washington. he s the cnn digital politics director. zach, you ve been listening to us chewing over the 20 pages of
imagine national security adviser bolton is considering is not just how maduro will respond to enhanced aggression by the united states but how vladimir putin is going to respond to aggression. there are russian assets in venezuela right now, along with cuban ones, that are propping up nicolas maduro and so as we think about what other options may be on the table, the military option, that the president and john bolton have thrown around which frankly has no legal standing. more aggressive covert options which could really escalate tensions in the country. all of those are going to be met by, with some kind of response by moscow. and that is something we really need to consider. how much do we want to turn this into a proxy battle or proxy war, between dc, washington on one hand, the 40 or so countries that are backing guaido, and then on the other, vladimir putin, castro, and nicolas maduro that raises the stakes when he think about in that context. what is the best and worst case s
and then actually never really does do it. like release his taxes, right. then there s other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. the big question is, is he going to do it in this case? we don t know what donald trump we re fog to get on that particular day. although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and that s something muler is doing, to see if there s any condemning statements he s made in those tweets. he s been warned about that for a very long time. the president continues, you know, to tweet. whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. how will mueller use these tweets to his advantage? even if they never get direct q & a from the president? yes, well, the tweets, on one
it would be my political and psychological analysis here is that president trump is and almss is a reality show star and this would be a great special. i say that in seriousness, because we know there are so many inconsistencies, on one hand, president trump is proud of the money he is saving by not having joint military exercises with south korea that he s willing to spend millions on a parade in washington, d.c. that is really for one man, himself. there is no public demand for this parade. if you have putin there, i think it s very risky before the mid-term elections because it will force every republican to take a stand, why is our number one enemy invited to this place of honor to review the troops? if the answer is to show how strong america is militarily, you don t need a parade in washington, d.c. to show that.