and mysterious. because he said it publicly, pipe l said, well, it s donald trump, he says things. it is obviously key here to mueller these are public statements being viewed as valid and potentially as incriminating as something he would say in private. and there is a sense around the white house, you know, since day one of this administration, they have tried to control what he can do on twitter to zero avail. john kelly tries to give his input here, this input here. maybe bill shine is involved. donald trump does what donald trump wants on twitter and he is he gets himself into political hot water at times with that. and now potentially some legal issues. and i think it is another front for people around the president to be anxious about. and another front we will see how donald trump reacts to this likely on twitter. we ll see if he tweets or stops targeting people on twitter. you and your colleagues reported on this. people would come back from answering questions and he woul
this case. what it would reveal to us is that maybe there s more investigative steps being taken on the manafort case and maybe we re looking at more charges down the road. or flipping other pipe l towards the manafort case. this is a big development actually. at this point, clint, as we re looking through this filing, looking at all the questions this raised, i imagine one is what constitutes ties. you have somebody with ties to the russian intelligence organization. how important is it going to be how integral those ties are? i think it s super important because if you look at the time line and the e-mail chain, going all the way back to about may of 2016, you re seeing communications going from trump campaign members back to russian ties, which are saying, how do we make ourselves whole through this? what do we need to do? the guy with the black cat who gave you the black caviar wants to talk to you. we need to talk in the next two weeks. this is that back and forth relationship
incredible honor it is to lead the department of health and human services at this pivotal time under your leadership. mr. president, thank you for the honor to serve the country. it is a great privilege you ve given me. what are you saying listen, i don t know about the cabinet. i don t know that much about the people in his cabinet. that s beyond my pay grade. i know about the pipe l who are supporting him and who still support him. they never met a green room they didn t like. they were critics of his before they went aboard his team and on and on and on. are you saying he s surrounding had ill self with fans, he s not competent, he doesn t tolerate dissent? what are you saying? he demands, however you say the noun of that, many of these people, and i make this point in the column, would not have gotten these opportunities under a different president. donald trump knows that. they know that. and that s sort of one of the dysfunctions of the administration. they don t have th
represents to hundreds of millions of americans and all it signals to the world, our veterans, our unity, the founding of our great nation, to call that a political stunt is truly outrageous, egregious and offensive. well, let s talk about it tonight. we are joined by philip bump, national correspondent for the washington post and andy martino, a veteran reporter and columnist in both news and society and sports currently a contributor with huffington post. gentlemen, welcome. so, philip, you instantly had no doubt and how, if your conclusion and the evidence we ve seen is correct, how angry should taxpayers be? because wild spending on aircraft flights has been in the news of late. it has. we don t know exactly how much this cost and there s been a lot of attention paid to the cost of the flights in part because we can calculate that. we know how much it costs to fly air force 2. the ancillary costs, added security, the cost of getting mike pence from the airport to the stadium, a
martino, a veteran reporter and columnist in both news and society and sports currently a contributor with huffington post. gentlemen, welcome. so, philip, you instantly had no doubt and how, if your conclusion and the evidence we ve seen is correct, how angry should taxpayers be? because wild spending on aircraft flights has been in the news of late. it has. we don t know exactly how much this cost and there s been a lot of attention paid to the cost of the flights in part because we can calculate that. we know how much it costs to fly air force 2. the ancillary costs, added security, the cost of getting mike pence from the airport to the stadium, all these things are expensive. they are also things intrusions into pipe l s daily lives which is expensive in other ways. i think the thing, and the piece i wrote today, the thing i think is worth reinforcing is the fact that this was something that was planned in advance, clearly planned in advance, a joke i