it doesn t matter how good you re doing, how good you are, you could relapse, too. eric sorkin wrote a fascinating piece in which he said about addiction, he had a conversation with phipil seymour hoffman who said when we die, that s going to save ten people from dying from addiction. but by covering this, by covering this tragedy, we are bringing to light tissue of but i have a problem with that argument. the new york times a day or two after the death has a page story, hoffman s heroine points to grim trade. 67% seizures in four years. why does it take a celebrity s death to hello, this is a celebrity driven culture. we are driven by the fact that our celebrities do something. that gets the most coverage. miley cyrus makes news more than the president makes news. journalists need to grow up. they don t need to chase miley
there is a big process involved. it s got to get the approval of the administration in power. not just the secretary of state but some other key officials. so that was something that they were concerned about from the very beginning, and this is something that he s going to have information on. martha: the pushback on the story is that it s not a big deal, that this has been litigated before, that there were bribery charges, and that those have also been litigated within these companies, that they were being bribed and getting kickbacks from the russian companies as part of this transaction. and that the clintons had nothing to do with it. some of that is true in the sense that, yes, the main russian protagonist did plead guilty in 2014. there are going to be questions about that guilty plea though, because it seems that he could ve been charged. having said that, none of this information, to the best of our knowledge, was ever produced to congress or, we don t think, to members of
mr. trump dossier. here now, jonathan turley, constitutional law attorney and law professor george george wan university. always good to see you. boy, there are a lot of tentacles to this story. you ve got an investigation into russian involvement and campaigns, which has been largely focused on the trump campaign, but there is a whole new ball of wax here, and it makes it very difficult to sort of ignore the things that are being revealed on the other side of the fence. right frankly, it s good to have something that is more recognizable as a criminal allegation. as you know, i ve been very skeptical about the past russian collusion claims as being a criminal matter, even though i supported the council of the the abutment of the council after comehy was fired. i have been cautioning that it isn t a crime to glue. in the same sense, it would be a crime to receive information on
that was one way. but according to a front. page story in today s the new york times there was another way as well. this is bill baroni, port authority of new york and new jersey. he was appointed to this new high ranking, high paying job at the port authority by new jersey governor chris christie. this picture shows mr. baroni in his capacity as an executive of the port authority. he s speaking in 2012 in this photo. and this is at a ceremony where, see what he s got his hands on there? he is presenting to the mayor of secaucus, new jersey, one of the pieces of steel from the world trade center ruins. that is an actual piece of the world trade center he s giving to the mayor of secaucus.