thread this weekend on what we already know about russia, in normal times with a bipartisan congress, those two tweets right there would lay out grounds for removal of office of any president, democratic, republican or independent. what we know now, and we only are seeing, you know, just dimly through darkened glass right now. deradako redactd documents. it s hard to ignore russia when robert mueller releases his final report. what we ve known for some time about the president s actions on the campaign trail, the actions of his associates and not just what we found out through mueller s investigations in sentencing memos, but his
watergate was basically a campaign finance scandal in its substance. the same way al capone was in jail for tax evasion it s possible for a president to go down over a campaign finance violation. think about other allegations has taken down a huge part of the inner circle he had when he entered washington. this is a very big deal. and the list of people who have been caught up in it is huge. it ranks as a major scandal in american history. so, given that thought to major political scandal in american history as nick just pointed out, over the weekend the reactions to the sentencing memos that have been released have been fairly predictable. rand paul saying, you know, not much there. but beneath the surface level, do you get any sense from your
clerical error, i m sure almost every presidential campaign, every large senatorial campaign will make clerical errors and there will be clean up later and they have to pay a fine. that happens all the time. this goes, though, to intent. the president knew what he was doing was defrauding the voters. the president knew, so he tried to get it done in both cases through third parties. michael cohen knew what he was doing was illegal. that s why he s pled guilty and will be spending a lot of time in jail because he knew it was illegal and he was acting on the direction of the republican nominee for president who had already been damaged by the access hollywood tape and knew that revelations about porn stars or playboy bunnies would finish his campaign off for good. so, we also have nick confessore with us. it s hard not to mock the misspellings in his latest tweets but i m looking at them.
middle east trying to raise money for project, here we have the same thing, a like father-in-law, like son-in-law. i find him the most reprehensible. follow the money. very interesting. you mention 666 and for months and months it was talked about how under water that was, how that was bringing down the kushner empire. then all of a sudden read he was bought out of it. where are the saudis in all of this. when the trumps and kushners show up at the white house the tendency of every president is how can we kind of help the world. what are we doing here for everybody else. this family looks inward. everything that jared kushner is doing, i believe, since he showed up there is setting him and his family up for their future enterprises. when you go out to raise money, a hedge fund, that s the first place you go. there s only so many places you go to raise money. so i firmly believe and i would love a real deep dive into 666
people are operating on their own unbeknownst to him in a totally clean way, that s the bar that he s going to have to clear and i think that s why you see a lot of republicans over this week and even the ones who love him most saying, oh, boy. yeah. you know, the president s strange tweets over the past several days, joe, suggest a lot of different things. i think he said something about a counter report to the mueller probe. how can you make a counter report or even allude to one unless you know that it s really, really bad? he s talking about a counter report. you really can t make a counter report until you actually know what s in the initial report. but it does suggest how desperate he is. there is not a counter report. rudy giuliani late at night when he s talking to reporters admits there is not a counter report out there. but he s insinuating it s terrible what they have, maybe what they ve indicated to him, maybe the questions they have sent are so damning that he wants