the best tick-tock off what this is all about. anybody that wants to know what the facts are should google it or find it or find it in my twitter feed. phillip bump, thank you so much. we really appreciate it. of course. up ahead, there s been a lot of talk that robert mueller needs to wrap up his investigation soon so that it won t impact the midterms. i beg to differ and i ll tell you why. 10 miles on every dollar they spend at thousands of hotels. all you have to do is pay with this. at hotels.com/venture. 10 miles per dollar? that is incredible. brrrrr. i have the chills. because you re so excited? because ice is cold. and because of all those miles. obviously. what s in your wallet? i m not sure. what s in your wallet?
the campaign. he works for the private business of the president of the united states and he s going to line up everyone s stories. we didn t know that before. yeah, i was struck by that, as well. and one of the things that you can see happening is sort of trading around of statements that might be distributed and goldstone tells the committee at one point that a statement that was suggested for him he felt like wasn t accurate and he didn t want to sign on to that. there s also the question of whether the president was told. right. don junior says he never told his father but there s this blocked number. yes. right? in between the calls to emin aglavrov. that blocked number is something someone could learn. that s tricky. phillip bump s timeline in the west is fantastic. when you lay that out, you see two things. one the blocked phone call is the only unexplained phone call of all of this. he s calling emin. calling someone else, calling
aglavrov. that blocked number is something someone could learn. that s tricky. phillip bump s timeline in the west is fantastic. when you lay that out, you see two things. one the blocked phone call is the only unexplained phone call of all of this. he s calling emin. calling someone else, calling emin back. we don t know what happened. there are investigators that can figure that out. through records, those can be subpoenaed and gathers. there are ways you can hunt that down. it becomes a question to the president, you know, it becomes a question to the president s staff who, made this phone call. what s also interesting is trump junior seems to call manafort in between these segments. and you ve got to the wonder what those are about. was it just coordinating for the meeting or also, does this check out? is this something we want to do. you kind of know this world. what do you think about this. right, so why would you call these people? you re trying to organize the
more cohesive and focused with the president, nothing happens unless the president says yes. so here you have the president acting as his own, you know, chief attorney, calling another attorney saying well what do you think about this? and what do you think about that? gloria, thanks very much. a lot to get to with the panel, phillip bump, laura coates. paul begala and amanda carpenter. it s fascinating. laura what do you make of this idea that pretty much everybody flips if facing a prison sentence. even sammy the bull flipped and he was as hardened a criminal as they come. everybody has a different pain threshold. you re talking about the president has the ability to pardon if a federal crime. if you were to get pardoned on a federal crime if convicted or charged with anything i still have you on the state crime. it may be incentive to say if i
white house reporter for the washington post. phillip bump, will with the washington post and jennifer rogers, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. that s a good place to be from tonight. michael schmidt, what, what are you able to report tonight about the president s sort of psychological condition right now? is he able to take this hammering in the threat of who knows what in that wild bag of stuff that the u.s. attorneys now have gotten their hands from mr. cohen s office? thanks for having me, chris. the largest issue to understand here is that for the president and his advisers, they see the new york investigation has far more problematic. they understand the contours of the special counsel s investigation and think there s no there there. they have understood what mueller is looking at, the issues related to russia and obstruction. i think they re fine.