both. thank you, lawrence. thank you. coming up, what will republicans in congress do if the president tries to fire special prosecutor robert mueller? there were some good clues about that today. including the phrase holy hell. we re drowning in information. where, in all of this, is the stuff that matters? the stakes are so high, your finances, your future.
prior to the establishment of the special counsel but the fact that flynn was not included in the indictments today leads you to believe that either that will be coming in the near future or that perhaps it s unnecessary because he s already cooperating. and, of course, the white house tried to suggest that dan papadopoulos was not a serious player in the trump foreign policy team in the campaign. let s listen to how donald trump himself described dan papadopoulos to the washington post. we heard you might be announcing your foreign policy advisory team soon. if you want i could give you some of the names. i wouldn t mind. i d be delighted. george papadopoulos. he s an oil and energy consultant, excellent guy. i want to apologize to dan papadopoulos, a friend of mine when i should have said george papadopoulos. david frum, there s the president when he s running saying george papadopoulos is one of the people he relies on. that s when the president had
after russia and go after old stuff back to 2007 and rod rosenstein is not stopping me. joyce and ari, thank you both. thank you, lawrence. thank you. coming up, what will republicans in congress do if the president tries to fire special prosecutor robert mueller? there were some good clues about that today. including the phrase holy hell. my experience with usaa has been excellent. they always refer to me as master sergeant.
the white house. throughout the day, the president spoke to his attorneys, multiple times. in response to press inquiries and questions about the process and never revealed any anger, any angst or anger according to ty cobb, the president s lawyer. he said the president is focused on diplomatic preparations ahead of the trip to asia and wanted the country to understand he s fully committed to continuing the course of the special counsel with full coordination. steve, ty cobb trying to strike the note of full cooperation. he is, indeed. but at the end of the day, here s the central fact today is that paul manafort indicted and charged amongst other things for conspiracy against the united states was one of the participants in a meeting in a room with donald trump jr., with the president s son-in-law jared kushner, with the officials and unofficial representatives of
and that friday, january 27th, turns out to be the very same day that fbi director james comey invited by the president surprisingly and suddenly to the white house for a one on one dinner and here s how james comey described what happened at that dinner. let me move to the january 27th dinner where you said, quote, the president began by asking me whether i wanted to stay on as fbi director. he also indicated that lots of people, again, your words, wanted the job. what was your impression and what did you mean by this notion of a patronage rape ro ip? my impression, again, it s my impression. i could be wrong but my common sense told me what was going on was either he concluded or someone had told him that you didn t you ve already asked comey to stay and you didn t get anything for it. and that the dinner was an effort to build a relationship,