says they were lying. he had direct communications not only with the deputy press secretary, but also with high level campaign officials, such as michael flynn, steve bannon, and sam clovis then campaign cochairman and they should all be scared because papadopoulos is talking with the special counsel now. dowd quit. joe digenova of framing trump is in. and very much in the trump line of thinking. steve bannon, trump s former chief strategist says, this is a sign trump is going to war with mueller. here s how he put it last night. i think president trump is going to war. i think it s obvious he s going to go to war on this. is he right? he was talking to pluler specifically? do you think the president is going to war with mueller? absolutely in terms of tweets and public statements. we held a press conference this
the democratic talking points of a year ago that there was a dossier and president trump was in the pocket th of the russians and james comey was lilly white, a lot of those have had to change if not been blown out of the water. the dossier is one bit of evidence. there is pa papadopoulos speakig to us australian foreign agents. i don t know if president trump or the campaign or anyone in that world colluded with russia. we know that russia meddled with the investigation. i would prefer the administration focus on stopping that. the fact they are not does raise a question about collusion. leland: is this a winning strategy for the president or should he shift in tact over to what dan is saying of just attacking the russians outright? i think that we have to get this resolved, get the memo resolved. it s kind of a side show. let the mueller investigation take its course and then we i think there is evidence that