close to where president trump has been spending the holidays. i know just in the last hour or so, there s been reaction from the white house and from the trump camp to all of this. what are you hearing? yes, the president s attorney, john dowd, with the response, short and sweet here, calls this reporting complete nonsense and more fake news. dismissing this theory of the case. essentially out of hand. beyond that, the sort of official white house spokespeople are not engaging in this. they re letting the lawyers draw the line here. ayman, i think part of the reason is some of the sound you played at the top of the show. there s probably an hour s worth of tape of the president singing michael flynn s praises from the campaign through the transition, through his time as a national security adviser. and even after he was fired. so to make that argument after the fact, that this person was untrustworthy or a liar and everyone knew about it really creates problems for this white
bob mueller. also requesting documents from deutsche bank, the biggest lender to both kushner s family, donald trump company, but questions related to a big loan to jared kushner s family that happened one month before election day. by no means is this investigation over. we ll get into this new reporting from yahoo!. but i wanted to ask about the pattern that has somewhat emerge heard. people like paul manafort, steve bannon, george papadopoulos, and now michael flynn. the president tries to diminish or distance themselves from, small-time players, possibly now in the case of michael flynn. i d say they were a liar according to this washington post report. what s the strategy behind distancing the president from all of these people who at one point were instrumental in his campaign and even in his early weeks of the presidency?
its missiles which itself has caused a great degree of escalation. in addition to that, you also had the recent collapse of the alliance between the huthys and the former president absala which has led to absala s death and led to the huthys formally imprisoning a number of leaders of absala s party and those who were free joining with the forces. as we close out 2017, it seems peace in yemen seems further away than ever. let me ask about the united states in all this. the new york times editorial board says despite being mostly silent on the issue, president trump he s ev trump, eager for closer ties with the saudi leadership, which is leading this campaign, has turned a blind eye to the humanitarian crisis there. some even saying the u.s. is aiding and abetting saudi arabia s part in this war. they re certainly providing weapons. they re certainly providing
michael issakof, questioning staffers about their digital operation to target voters in key swing states. he says prosecutors are looking into whether there s link to the work of russian trolls and bots that tried to influence last year s election. he points out the son-in-law, jared kushner, managed the trump campaign s digital operation. after winning the election, kushner told forbes magazine, quote, i called somebody who works for one of the technology companies that i work with and i had them give me a true toutori how to use facebook micro targeting. by running the trump campaign, notably, it s secret data operation. so how is this looking for kushner with this new reporting and his own words to forbes magazine? look, you know, i think jared kushner is the person closest to the president, a family member of course his son-in-law who has been most implicated at this
again, it s not surprising. donald trump himself came up with this idea of the mueller investigation being a witch-hunt as a way to deflect attention away from itself, turn back to the fact he won, trying to blame it all on the fact the democrats are the sore losers. this is related to the effort to discredit the dossier, saying it was paid for first of course it was paid for by a rich republican who didn t like donald trump. before it was then transferred over to democrats paying for it. i think what s not relevant is really who paid for it. what s relevant is it s true. and this goes back to the same thing. of course you re going to defend yourself by saying this is not true, these are small-time players, they weren t related to the president. that is completely predictable. we ll see if it proves to be an effective strategy. i want to go back to the strategy coming out of yahoo! news. specifically about the special counsel s investigation. micha