Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Okay, this person is trying to move a conversation in this direction for this purpose. So it seems a little obscure, i dont understand where are theyre trying to go. Is it a pr strategy or is it a legal strategy . Is he a lawyer or a spokesman we have michael avenatti, lanny davis and Rudy Giuliani out there just talking away. I dont think any of them are actually coming up with a cohesive legal strategy for what they need to do because they want to win the pr battle. Lan ny is not allowed to talk. Whatever were talking about now, i have a feeling Robert Mueller has already been over that. But Rudy Giuliani is acting like a squirming coil an going all over the place. Hes saying donald trump never hacked the dnc. No one ever claimed that. Hes also saying that donald trump Didnt Attending T the me with russians. Take a listen to what else he said. This russian meeting, he wasnt there. He wasnt at the meeting. He did
that be for team trump? well, look. it s certainly yet another instance in which the president made a false statement, right? he has indicated in the past that the discussions weren t ongoing during the election. he said many times during the election that russia didn t have business dealings with him, he had no involvement with russia. that would certainly be used against him in any legal proceeding. in and of itself, having business deals with russia isn t a crime. the issue might be if, for example, they were giving that penthouse to vladimir putin, there might be a foreign corrupt practices act there. that s really the devil in the details and it doesn t necessarily have to do with the timing. i will say that one issue from a kournlt intelligence perspective and this is something i imagine josh could weigh in on as well, is if the president was lying to the public about his dealings with russia, potentially russians could blackmail him if