house weighing in. you had the president s inside and outside legal teams who were working together to come up with strategies. and in this case you really just have the president, kind of the single body, the single person communicating, trying to dictate , rategy here and holding sessions like the one we saw on the south lawn today where the president sort of repeated that incredible moment from the 2016t campaign where he said russia, are you listening? if so, we d love hillary clinton s emails. and here you have the president standing there in the public eye on the south lawn of the white house saying hey, china, maybe you can help me out too. maya wiley, i m going read uu something from mutual friend of ours, barbara mcquade. former u.s. attorney in the state of michigan., she wrote today this habit of committing crimes in plain sight is intriguing. trump is practically daring us to call him out for soliciting foreign influence into our election, which is a crime. i accept the
communicating, trying to dictate strategy here and holding sessions like the one we saw on the south lawn today where the president sort of repeated that incredible moment from the 2016 campaign where he said russia, are you listening? if so, we d love hillary clinton s emails. and here you have the president standing there in the public eye on the south lawn of the white house saying hey, china, maybe you can help me out too. maya wiley, i m going read something from mutual friend of ours, barbara mcquade. former u.s. attorney in the state of michigan. she wrote today this habit of committing crimes in plain sight is intriguing. trump is practically daring us to call him out for soliciting foreign influence into our election, which is a crime. i accept the dare. this is a crime. maya, does she speak for you? barbara absolutely speaks for me. and moreover, remember that in the mueller report, one of the things that robert mueller said was 271 contacts between the
years-long process where there was a lot of back and forth. you had people outside the white house weighing. you had the president s inside and outside legal teams who were working together to come up with strategies. and in this case you really just have the president, kind of the single body, the single person communicating, trying to dictate strategy here and holding sessions like the one we saw on the south lawn today where the president sort of repeated that incredible moment from the 2016 campaign where he said russia, are you listening? if so, we d love hillary clinton s emails. and here you have the president standing there in the public eye on the south lawn of the white house saying hey, china, maybe you can help me out too. maya wiley, i m going read something from mutual friend of ours, barbara mcquade. former u.s. attorney in the state of michigan. she wrote today this habit of committing crimes in plain sight is intriguing. trump is practically daring us to call him ou
it. you heard his response, that this was a matter of not even knowing the specific state department officials and that no quid pro quo, which is contained in the text messages as bell. but you have to read through all of it to see the sort of exchange or bartering that appeared to be going on. i think it is critical that he said i think he said it a couple of times, i only read one text message. so whether or not randomly that s the one he saw or that s the only one he was given. that helps his case. trying to get the president to focus on some of these issues we ve been hearing him talk about the biden allegations he s been promulgating for a couple of weeks now. so letting him have his moment to say what he wishes to say, but trying to get new information, and that was kind of a verbal wrestling match on the south lawn today. again, the president takes a lot of questions, trying to elicit new information can be
the question i ve asked you. i ve answered everything. it s a whole hoax. and you know who s playing into the hoax? people like you and the fake news media. jeff mason of reuters with remarkable composure. the president then asked him to ask a question of the president of finland. david jolly, what are we seeing here with the president and his behavior yesterday? i think we re seeing a president who knows he s going to be impeached by the house of representatives. he knows his poll numbers are at a historical low for any president in their first term. he knows the likelihood of his reelection is dimming. so he s lashing out both in anger in those moments but also is reaching out to other nations to ask them to interfere in our elections to help him prospects personally and politically. the problem for the president is that it is fundamentally impeachable behavior. he didn t answer jeff s question yesterday but he answered it on the south lawn today, andrea. what it brought back t