new trailer. the russians have a particular type of mark, they go after somebody who has business resources, shady morals, and political connections or aspirations. i ve just described donald trump. the crowned jewel for any intelligence agency is to recruit an asset inside your adversary s intelligence agency. they seem to have premonitions of things that were going to happen that in fact did happen. the question is, who helped guide the decisions that the russians were making. trump tower was money laundering paradise. anybody who was anybody in russian organized crime bought a condo unit at trump tower. we have the serious intelligence operation in the home of the man who becomes president of the united states. joining us now the director, writer and producer of that film, jack brian. thank you very much for being on this morning. thanks for having me. it goes back 30 years and
not a crime. conspiracy is a crime. and i would, i would suggest that there is not a lot of definitional daylight between collusion and conspiracy. but, the president continues to sort of set up the straw man of collusion just to knock it down. you know, bob mueller is investigating by his appointment letter by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein any contacts between the trump campaign and the russians. and, yes, in a common sense way, that is collusion. but he s investigating conspiracy. he s investigating potential obstruction of justice by covering up the trump campaign contacts with russians. so, you know, i think the collusion is a bit of a straw man. that the president is taking advantage of and trying to confuse, quite frankly, the general public. glenn, clint watts. i wanted to ask you, we have been talking a lot about
interview for seven or eight months. he could have easily done it and answered all these questions and this question of whether he can get through the interview or not it is absurd the president of the united states can t sit down and answer questions truthfully. he d incriminate himself by telling the truth or can t get through an interview without lying repeatedly and committing another crime. isn t it remarkable how little confidence donald trump s own lawyers have in him, that they think he s too stupid to sit across the table with robert mueller? if i were trump, i d be insulted. and they re basically willing to come out and say that, if you read between the lines they re all but saying that and it is insulting to everyone else that works in the federal government. if you work at the justice department or the defense department or anywhere else and you are under fbi investigation, you have the fifth amendment right to not sit down for an interview, to not cooperate with invest
for his wall. it won t be the full amount that he s asked for, but he can take that check, put it in his pocket and declare victory. so, he ll spend the next several weeks beating up on congress, demanding this funding and then no matter what the amount is, he can say, he got a victory. still ahead, is collusion a crime? that s the question. in paul manafort s case, it may not matter. we ll bring in a former prosecutor to explain why. we re seeing ostrich jacket is in. he had a vest. who does this? the guy is always one up us. do we get to see the jacket? do they have it? do you guys have the vest? do you have the vest, joe? no, we don t have the vest. i m going to go get it now,
moving ahead of schedule and expects to rest its case next week. joining us now is former federal prosecutor glenn kershner out with a new piece entitled is collusion a crime? it may not matter. why manafort s trial is focused on financial wrongdoing for now. if you want to put aside the python jacket and ostrich jacket and wire transfers from cypress, what s important to focus on the manafort trial? i would agree we shouldn t be focusing on his opulent lifestyle, the ostrich jacket and the python jacket, i guess we can be thankful he didn t have panda fur boots, as well. it s funny, the more i hear the word collusion raised primarily by the president and his loyalists, i guess i would have to point out that special counsel robert mueller has never once said, i am investigating the president for collusion. because we all know collusion is