da of philadelphia? on what basis was the deal made? the former da of this county, montgomery county, concluded that he did not have enough evidence to prosecute mr cosby. he made an agreement that was binding not to prosecute him. in return, he asked mr cosby to defend a civil case, which mr cosby did not have to defend and didn t have to speak out in. mr cosby in his attorneys relied on disagreement. they did participate in the civil case. that was resolved, and then the next district attorney decided to scuttle the prior district attorney s agreement and prosecute him. it was a travesty of justice. it was not becoming a prosecutor you know, prosecutors have a lot of power and influence, and they are held to a very high ethical standard, and this prosecution was below that ethical standard, and i m glad the pennsylvania supreme court agreed with me and i m glad they ve indicated mr cosby. agreed with me and i m glad they ve vindicated mr cosby. mr cosby said he would
don t know about. did they really only begin this investigation at the end of july or were they running informants before that point? if so, on what basis. a lot of information about the hillary clinton probe too. should he be worried. i know her testimony will be in private. should he be worried about lisa page s system. testimony. with 2 individuals you could play one against the other. do you think she ll become a liability or a problem for him? is that what some of the investigators are looking for? i think all of the upcoming testimony is a problem for each other. if you think about it. they had some of the main guys come in and testify. it was a deliberate decision by many of the committees to not have some of these central players, the absolute key witnesses come in until they had a chance to go over all the
working in the administration are surprised by the atmosphere they find themselves in, i guess there is a part of me that says, did they watch the campaign? well, did they watch the campaign? have they tuned in to any of the coverage before they came on? there s been tremendous churn and turnover at this white house. one study has it as the most unstable. the instability is setting records. people are coming in and joining this administration knowing what they re getting. you talk to people who are considering going in as part of the third or fourth wave, and they say, well, it can t be that bad. and then they get there, and they re like, oh, it s even worse than you thought. this is just a president who, to build on what nancy was saying, likes chaos but likes the image of chaos more. he thinks this is good for his brand to show that he is able to step into unpredictable situations, uncontrolled situations, and he alone can fix it, to borrow a phrase from the cleveland convention.
that is a big deal, and it properly should be scrutinized. republicans should be asking how that happened, who approved it, on what basis. but, you know, knowing the way the fbi operates and knowing the sensitivity of investigating the presidential campaign, you ve got to believe that decision was approved potentially at the highest levels, even by the attorney general of the united states, that they dotted every i, crossed every t, followed every procedure. if they didn t, they should be held accountable for that, but there were very good reasons that they sent this informant to talk to these people, principally because two of them had already been established as suspected foreign agents with contacts with russians. so this was a very serious investigation. they were concerned about russian influence in a presidential campaign. but you re absolutely right. rudy giuliani is arguing that that was inappropriate, and therefore the whole investigation is invalid. and, paul, on another fr
deal with the soviets. the republicans against obama a few years ago with the iran deal said he was too eager to do that. how does that enter into it, trump s desire, his strong desire to be seen as succeeding where his predecessors failed? well, i think that s the overwhelming conclusion just from the last 24 hours of head-spinning, on again, off again romance. the white house was very eager to let us know yesterday that that very strangely and very undiplomatically worded letter to kim had been dictated personally by president trump himself. and so then to turn around on a dime not because of any policy change on the part of the north koreans, i think it s important to emphasize that, but simply because donald trump said, as he told us this morning in his remarks before he got on the marine one helicopter, because we received a very nice letter from them. so it all has to do with how he feels he s being treated by the north koreans. he s reduced in a way american national security