in this previously secret meeting between erik prince and head of russian sovereign wealth fund is resumption of normal economic relations between the united states and russia and how great that would be. that means end of u.s. sanctions against russia. u.s. government and european union have levied sanctions against russia, most recently for them invading ukraine. sanctions on russia. if you were going to get a tattoo to remind you what this scandal is about on the russia side, why they wanted what they wanted and why they did what they did to us last year in the election, if you wanted handy picture oral reminder, come up with something that means sanctions to you. over and over again, it s russia s clear animating force. their motivation, comes up over and over again.
department. i marvel at what the administration has done on the russia side. the president of the united states is not implementing the sanctions that the senate voted 98-2 this past july. he s not yet implemented. so he s still currying favor, trying to with vladimir putin. i think putin doesn t respect people who are weak, the president would be well advised to put these sanctions forward. they need to feel pressure by republicans. what s your instinct on the hold that putin clearly has on trump? what s your instinct on that? the generous explanation is that the president is extraordinarily naive, that he has this concept that he wants to be at a summit with putin, the two most powerful leaders and they re really not, that s the generous explanation. the other explanation is being investigated by robert mueller. if there s something there, if there was collusion, if there are financial ties, we ll have to see what the right explanation is but it s not
life. also reminiscent of how one trump ally dismissed george papadopoulos who was indicted last week. they called him coffee boy. under obama dealing with russia, evelyn, i don t know what your coffee access would be or what the right term would be. on that campaign, coffee boy, carried with it some pretty high diplomatic privileges. he was famously sitting at the table with jeff sessions and donald trump. walk us through the kremlinology side of this. whether or not there s wrongdoing, as i ve been careful to point out. carter page has proven so noncredible, it is not clear when he is incriminating himself. on the russia side, what would they think they were getting in those meetings? first we have to note that carter page was invited over there. it was very similar to the george dpam invitation. the russians knew that he was already publicly identified as
with kremlin didn t backed intermediaries offering dirt on hillary clinton and it adds, as our nbc reporting, several colleagues pointed out, it adds to the evidence here, undisputed, because it s a becay plea that there was a sustained plot, at least from the russia side, to try to get dirt on hillary clinton to the trump side. so paul, let s say that i accepted that. there seemss to be all sorts of evidence the russians are trying to get somebody to bite on the hillary clinton stuff. without evidence that somebody bit, what do i do? we know that papadopoulos was busted by the fbi at dulles airport in july and he s been cooperate with mueller since then. and we re just finding that out. so it s safe to assume that mueller is also aggressively getting other people to cooperate. that s pretty much what today was about, i think, with manafort. they threw the book at him. he s looking at 10 to 15 years in prison, at least.
just can t do it? i don t know where he s going to rage. he told me he was going to blame me. you re in the line of fire. we can get a win here. for the people. for the american people. even for the president. we can pass a bipartisan bill. we have a five-point plan, problem solver calk urks we put it together, put the cost-sharing reduction payments, stabilization fund for the individual market. repeal the company mandate for the smaller companies, repeal the medical device tax. we could pass that out of the house, out of the senate. it s a matter of leadership wanting it to go to the floor. it would go to donald trump, i bet he d sign it. stick his name on it i m sure he d sign it. my thanks to kelsey snell and reverend al sharpton. the latest health care fail surgoing to land like a thud in bedminster where donald trump woke up on the russia side of