employees who aren t being paid. that as uk is in turmoil over the defeat of the brexit deal. i want to bring in catherine rampell and rick wilson, the author of everything trump touches dies. in the u.s. we got about 800,000 federal workers going without pay. tsa workers calling in sick. in the uk, lawmakers have rejected theresa may s brexit deal. the largest defeat for a sitting government in uk political history. all this upheaval. what is going on here? i think there are a number of world forces that have been unleashed. we had a major world financial crisis ten years ago exactly, and you re still seeing that work its way through the system politically. that s led to populism on the left and the right. i think that s part of it. we also have a uniquely upheaval causing president in the white house right now who is causing
in fact, michael flynn, in his very brief tenure as national security adviser, was pushing to lift sanctions against russia unilaterally. let s talk about a little bit more about this, jeffrey. because after the vote this afternoon, this is what you said on twitter. you said it looks like legislative is again having to take on russia policy. trump says that he has been tougher than anyone against russia. what is the reality here? that s simply not true. what you ve seen is the vacuum he s left in his personal role as the head of foreign policy has had to have been taken up by congress. it s congress that passed the countering america s adversaries sanctions act. that s a tough russia act, but that s not something he wanted to do. he didn t want to kick out all of the diplomats after the skripal poisoning. all of the actions he referred to are things he didn t want to do that had to be pushed by other parts of government. and i think what s also interesting, trump a lot of his
the new york times report on friday about investigating the president and whether he had been working on behalf of russia. cnn confirmed that he confirmed this to lawmakers last fall. what are we seeing now? is this retaliation? i don t know. i didn t work on that times report so i don t know who the sourcing was on that, to make that clear. i don t know. i don t want to speculate, but at the time it doesn t look great. what do you think, michael? what do you think? do you get do you get the sense that this investigation into baker is retaliation against people involved in investigating the president? i mean, it looks that way. the reason it looks that way is every time that there is some negative information that comes out from somebody who is involved with the investigation into the president, there seems to be a fire hose of a story that comes out, sort of spray them down with the dirty water
untruths start with a kernel of truth. and his administration has in fact been tough on russia. his administration has put out even more sanctions against russia, wave after wave of sanctions against russia. the trump administration has expelled russian diplomats and intelligence operatives. however, that wasn t trump. the reason i m saying trump administration and not trump is because they re often two different things. it s like this two-headed hydra, and our allies abroad, as well as our adversaries in moscow often don t know which head to listen to because there is the trump administration and then trump himself. i got to go, julia. when trump wanted to veto the sanctions bill, moscow took notice. thank you very much. i m out of time. thank you so much. i appreciate both of you. william barr says he and robert mueller are good friends. the president seems fine with that. will that change?
barr trying to downplay that and say look, it was completely proper, but this was kind of my view from being on the outside. it s going to be different once i m on the inside. i ll have to evaluate this investigation once i get there. so we ll see if that s enough to pass by the senators. sara murray with the very latest from washington. we appreciate your reporting. thank you very much. here to discuss matthew rosenberg, juliette kayyem, and michael moore. good evening to all of you. matthew, i m going to start with all of you. on the same day that trump s pick for attorney general is being grilled on capitol hill about his feels about the mueller investigation, we get this new filing on manafort. mueller also asked to delay rick gates sentencing. i mean, there is a lot more to be done. doesn t this show that? it certainly looks that way. you know, i can t imagine that if you re the president, you re up pennsylvania avenue at the white house, this is a great day for you. you know