in fact, he asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay. david, i have the feeling when the history of this is written there will be many days like this, many days on january 27th where one dramatic scene is happening in the white house and dining room with the president and james comey and another fateful scene is happening where someone like george papadopoulos decides on that day to lie to the fbi. you are not the only one who has that impression. to my mind, one of the most interesting things about tonight following today is something that s not happening. if you have been watching fox, i assume you have and other networks, too, i think one it s striking there are no republican lawmakers on tv. and at the atlantic, i assume many other organizations, we spent time trying to get them on the phone and they seemed to have lost knowledge of how to make that instrument work either. this is a moment where a president rallies or tries rally his friends and there
paul manafort and his associate rick gates are out on $10 million and $5 million bail respectively awaiting trial for their conspiracy against the united states. today, the president dismissed manafort s alleged crimes as something that happened long before he was hired on the trump campaign which, of course, is not true. here is how candidate trump talked about paul manafort while paul manafort was actually committing crimes against the united states, according to the special prosecutor s indictment. and paul manafort has done an amazing job. he s here come place. where s paul? paul manafort. oh good. you made it. paul manafort has done a fantastic and all of paul s people, paul brought on a staff and we really do we have a great staff of talented people. paul manafort and rick gates pled not guilty to all 12 charges brought against them today.
judiciary committee, who s still a member of the committee, released this written statement. these are serious charges and i believe that it s in the best interest for all parties involved to allow bob mueller to conduct a full and vigorous investigation. most republicans, of course, avoided comment on the developments in the investigation today but no republicans echoed the wall street journal s editorial today said the president should issue a blanket pardon to anyone that might be investigated. up next, we ll get paul ryan s reaction today to the indictments. you will not be surprised by paul ryan s reaction but you will be surprised to see stewart stevens back with us for the first time since the inauguration. what powers the digital world. communication.
27th where one dramatic scene is happening in the white house and dining room with the president and james comey and another fateful scene is happening where someone like george papadopoulos decides on that day to lie to the fbi. you are not the only one who has that impression. to my mind, one of the most interesting things about tonight following today is something that s not happening. if you have been watching fox, i assume you have and other networks, too, i think one it s striking there are no republican lawmakers on tv. and at the atlantic, i assume many other organizations, we spent time trying to get them on the phone and they seemed to have lost knowledge of how to make that instrument work either. this is a moment where a president rallies or tries rally his friends and there s gingrich and hannity and there s laura ingram and others not facing electors but what is not what we re not seeing tonight, not
in the corridors of the white house was one of worriness and fear of the unknown. trump is also increasingly agitated by the expansion of mueller s probe into financial issues beyond the 2016 campaign and about the potential to him and his family. joining us now, ron klain, former chief of staff to vice presidents biden and gore and steve she mid, an msnbc analyst. the raiding of the three indictments today with a guilty plea already? it s a day to remember for a long time. i don t think it s the moment of truth. but it is finally a moment of truth. we found now for sure that the russians had the e-mails, they knew about this months before it became public. they tried to traffic those to the trump campaign. through mr. papadopoulos and we know what they were doing in trump tower two months later and clearly there s now no question