whether there is any questioning related to any meetings that we don t know about, or any quid pro quos passed along to vladimir putin. talking to paul manafort, talking to other members of the transition team and asking for policy promises in exchange of laundering of information from the russians or, again, kind of quid pro quo. everybody stick around. days after the president orders the national guard to the mexican border, are the troops ready to deploy? we re going live to the mexican border in arizona. blp
time, i think that having the president s legal team fall apart would be a very bad thing because it s going to protract this investigation. and it s not going to get us to the important point. at the end of the day, the important point here is russia, russia, russia. and mr. mueller has an important task in front of him. he needs to find out whether the conspiracy about which he filed indictments earlier extends to things like the hacking of the democratic national committee e-mails. he needs to find out whether there were any americans involved in that conspiracy. he needs to find out whether that conspiracy extended to the point where there were quid pro quos of illicit activities in return for positions on public policy, like russian sanctions, and so on. these are the critical issues
he needs to find out whether the conspiracy about which he filed indictments earlier extends to things like the hacking of the democratic national committee e-mails. he needs to find out whether there were any americans involved in that conspiracy. he needs to find out whether that conspiracy extended to the point where there were quid pro quos of illicit activities in return for positions on public policy, like russian sanctions, and so on. these are the critical issues we ve got to get to, not all of this silly jockeying that some of the lawyers are engaged in. jack quinn and jill wine-banks, thanks for your time. still to come, new reporting the president was warned by his own national security team not, not to congratulate vladimir putin on his election win, but did it anyway. next, new video from the ongoing
president? well, we have to be concerned if this is a one-off thing and now it is out in the open, okay, but if there are multiple people who have been silenced, that means that, you know, the president is afraid that it is coming out, and that means that he has a vulnerability that some people who know about it, could po t potentially exploit. and he does not want anyone to have leverage over the president of the united states for any reason, because we want him to be acting completely transparently and not for motive for the things that he says. so if this is a pattern in any way, it would be a concern. and now, what about the rish shawn investigation. are these two completely separate issues here that we are dealing with or an opportunity that they could somewhere meet down the line? it is a great question. i mean, you know, somesome the things that are starting to coming up in the russian investigation have to do with whether there may be, you know, some kinds can of quid pro
investigation into one of the loans one of the companies from whom jared kushner got a loan. in the end, robert, once this stuff is out in the ether, investigators and prosecutors will actually trace this up, right? if there was an investigation into apollo, and then suddenly, the investigation disappeared after apollo gave the kushner companies $184 million loan, this is 2018. we can get to the bottom of that. well, i think you can. the investigators can certainly look at what the timing is and who took the initiative to drop an sec investigation. the problem, and the reason convicts are such an issue and can be so important, is the problem is not necessarily clearly, quid pro quos are illegal, but when you have powerful people, you don t even need a quid pro quo. you don t need the discussion. no one needs to say i mean, if you re citi, no one needs to say to anyone in the trump