other sexier. or maybe someone assertive who won t take crab from anyone, if only we could bring back this guy. [inaudible] that would be amazing. it s gotta be somewhat tough, no-nonsense, i know the perfect choice. [laughter] [applause] let s welcome tonight s guest, he so bright he doesn t need to buy light bulbs. reform editor and contributor lawrence joan he s the type a
that s the difference cosby lured people to his town house and rooms. this is someone who ran an operation, i don t know what else to call it, other than a sexually, a sexual predator, acting an a sexual predator in his office, in the restaurant, in his hotel rooms for business trips. i mean, have you seen anything like this? and enabled by his executives and his assistants who facilitated this behavior and impossible to defend and impossible to believe deninals given the number of credible women who have stepped forward. here s the question. it isn t just in this industry. right? it happens in other industries as well. a little sexier because we ve all seen his movies and seen the actresses implicated in this now. i wonder if you think this is just harvey weinstein or will this be like the profusion of developments in, against catholic priests where we found
of investigating paul manafort and his relationship with and the president. but you can t take the leap to say manafort was continuing to work for russian interests. i didn t say that. you did. no, my point is you re then drawing the relationship to the president. and there s no i m asking if that s a reasonable body of questions for an investigation. if the russians were paying paul manafort while he served as donald trump s campaign chairman, and i wrote this as a make believe tv show, someone would rip it up and burn it and say this is asinine. the more important part of this investigation is the collusion investigation. has always been the more important part of it because that s a thing that strikes at the things you re expressing concern about and that i m concerned about which is the effect on our democracy, the effect on our ability to be an effective agent with other nations around the world. that s always been much more important than some of the other stuff t
for example, putting a high speed internet into schools is not something that you re going to get a profit off of. you re not going to get a profit off of dams, for example. a whole host of issues that the nation needs to spend money on and yet no profitable end to this. this is simply what is perceived in the past has been a responsibility of government to create the infrastructure to allow for commerce and to allow for the free movement of people. so this is where the medal is really going to hit the pedal or the road, whatever that analogy is. it s right here, right now. how are we going to pay for this kind of a massive infrastructure project and i will tell you that even once it s paid for, this is considered to be a drop in the bucket. most experts say we need to spend not $1 trillion but $2 trillion to $3 trillion because we ve failed over the past 20, 30 years to put money into maintaining the infrastructure. it s a lot sexier to build a new football stadium than it is to
it s an easy line. were the questions unfair? some of the questions were too much about the games of politics. not about substance. this is a debate on c knicks. a business 23450us channel. there was expectation for questions about economic policy. they re trying to juice it. make it a little sexier. two things i d say in cnbc s defense, live tv is really hard. jake tapper, megyn kelly, they make it look easy. it doesn t seem like they were prepared. my frustration watching the debate there were missed opportunities because. moderators. it s also how you do it, you know. they had their way last night. they were attacked by the whole field. megyn kelly got a big smack from donald trump about what happened with them and played to sexism, went back and forth. but it wasn t exactly artfully done. so then you see jake tapper using words against them.