so, manafort was the guy in the center of the campaign as donald trump moved towards republican nomination. but he s saying he doesn t have an attorney general with jeff sessions, a guy that he once said was the smartest guy in all of washington. and now he s saying he hardly knew manafort, didn t even know papadopoulos. it s, again, alternate facts and, you know, what s interesting, those about the attorney general situation. donald trump actually wanted rudy giuliani to be attorney general. consider being attorney general because giuliani was pushing hard for secretary of state and that just wasn t going to happen. and so trump said what about attorney general? giuliani didn t want to be attorney general. said it was just too tough.
in the russia probe including george papadopoulos who was sentenced to two weeks to prison for lying to federal investigators. president trump told the hill tv how about papadopoulos who i didn t know other than i sat for 15 minutes at table where they have a picture of this. i didn t even talk to the guy. i didn t know who he was. one thing about carter page he never went around saying he knew me. he never went around saying the president is my best friend. they put him on some committee. some person put him on a committee. that was not a good committee for me. okay. here again is what president trump said to the washington post editorial board about these same people in 2016. we heard you might be announcing your foreign policy advisory team soon. if you want me to give you some of the names. i would be delighted. carter peace, ph.d.. george papadopoulos.
given back to people to get rid of the amt. he s taking money from old grandma, who is at the end of her life, and giving it to ivanka trump essentially. what a bedside manner that man has. i did not know that. a little bit of a nulg net our own reporting. george papadopoulos. how did he get on the trump campaign? not many people know including his college professor, who said he was a terrible student and was shocked to find out that he was a trump aide. probably good in russian. yamiche? there are several female lawmaker who s are out saying that they were actually sexually harassed by their colleagues. this is not just staff members saying that members of the congress are taking advantage of them, but these are actually people who are peers of other men saying that there are people saying that they were thinking about them in the shower and basically inappropriately touching them. so this i think is an interesting chapter. interesting is a good word. jennifer rubin, thank y
was he involved in any of these other discussions about contacts with russian officials? you know, george papadopoulos also had contacts where he was promised dirt on hillary clinton. did jeff sessions know about that? robert mueller knows a lot, and so the senator or attorney general, jeff sessions, has more to answer to than just these calls on the hill for him to come back and testify. he could potentially be in his own legal jeopardy. back in watergate days, this he had a phrase limited modified hangout where they could go from stonewalling to admitting something. here you have the attorney general getting word out that, okay, i was at the meeting, but i was there shooting down the idea. so he s admitting now he wasn t fully honest in his past statements when saying there was no contact with russia, but he s also trying to deny he went along with it by saying, yes, i was there when it was discussed but i shot the idea down. legally, how does this protect him? why would he shift
investigation. no word yet on whether that s in the winds for sessions. well, the president s lawyer, ty cobb, told the new york times the media s willingness to inflate papadopoulos, a young unpaid volunteer and supposed energy expert into an important thought leader in the campaign or russian operative is ludicrous. the evidence so far suggests he attended one meeting, said something about russia, was immediately shut down by everyone in the room. well, it s not the media that elevated it. it s donald trump himself. in march of 2016, trump led off a list of people on his foreign policy team. his team identified by him. let s listen. walid phares, who you probably know, ph.d. adviser to the house of representatives caucus, and is a counterterrorism expert. carter page, ph.d. george papadopoulos. he s an oil and energy consultant. excellent guy. matt, rolling disclosures at