news had been the unifying force for all republicans and all conservatives that were running for office on the national level over 25 years. anyway, coming up, we re going to take you through the time line of how more scrutiny has been piled on paul manafort. from whispers of ukraine connections to ledgers of payments. from campaign chairman to an fbi raid, to donald trump saying paul who? morning joe coming back right after this. award winning interface. award winning design.
about barrel bombs as being something which could trigger another u.s. military response at a time when he s, you know, clearly the administration i mean nikki haley is saying one thing. rex tillerson is saying something else, and sean spicer is talking about barrel bombs which they then had to kind of walk back. then you saw in president trump s interview with maria bartolo mow of fox business, he made a reference to barrel bombs himself and how concerned he was about that. so i think sean actually does a very able job of speaking for his boss. he knows what donald trump wants to say. he represents his bogs, and he does that very ably, which is the job of the press secretary. the press secretary is to represent what the president wants said. he made a mistake today, but he s a very fine representative of what the president wants said. people like paul who don t like the president and they ll do everything they can to undermine and attack the staff as a way of getting at the presid
democra democrats have to be careful overplaying their hands with this and what this investigation might turn out to be. white house in precarious position, basically saying they ve never heard of paul manafort, mike flynn a volunteer. paul who? just a gentleman who worked for them for five or six months. they re in a difficult position. then all of this back and forth between nunes and schiff leading to the question of whether or not any of these investigations will be credible to the public. point is watching chairman nunes yesterday. went over to the white house, then gave two press conferences instead of going to his own committee. then he said giving the president cover for his claims but there s no prove. there s no cover for those claims. what i found most surprising out of what devin nunes said
committee. what s it going to take for us to get to the bottom of this russian investigation. back with me now, mark preston, david gergen, congressman steve israel and matt lewis. i guess if we figure out what it s going to take for us to get to the bottom of this, you would be a wealthy woman? yeah, i think it goes back to what nick kristof was saying. nobody knows what s going to happen. in some ways that s causing panic among some republicans and for democrats they re obviously tossing around the impeachment word. certainly maxine waters has been doing that. i think democrats have to be careful about overplaying their hand in terms of what this investigation might turn out to be. and with the white house, you have them in a very precarious position, basically saying they ve never really heard of paul manafort, that mike flynn was a volunteer on paul who? exactly. he s just some gentleman who worked for them for like five or six months. so, yeah, i mean they are in a
bush votes. i think that is the right question. all due respect to gary johnson this is the equivalent of lickenstein declaring war on the united states. he s not a very good candidate. someone like ron paul would be a different story. a lot of people don t know about ron paul in the general election right. the polling right now says that ron paul could probably cost whoever the republican nominee was the election by taking more antiobama votes away from the nominee. gregg: he s still running for the republican nomination, he s leading in iowa with six days to go, and the libertarian party will nominate as i understand it may 5th. let me quote today s wall street journal. mr. paul who ran for president