Investigative journalist looking into government corruption. Plus its now officially the happiest place on earth and no its not disneyland find out which country has topped the uns happiness ranking this year. Im brian thomas great to have you with us the United States says it is standing with britain in the dispute with russia over an assassination attempt on a former double spied london says the kremlin is behind the poisoning of sergei script all his daughter the two were exposed to a russian made nerve agent moscow denies any involvement Prime Minister theresa may has responded by expelling twenty three Russian Diplomats its the biggest such expulsion since the cold war. Until recently britains Prime Minister to resign may had to tone being accused of not being hard enough on russia on wednesday she got her redemption standing before Parliament May and equivocally accuse the kremlin of attempting to murder a former russian double agent living in the u. K. What followed were a serie
Weve also learned that manafort is denying ever meeting Julian Assange following a blockbuster report he had met with the wikileaks founder at least three times in previous years. Lets discuss now. Renato mariotti is here as well as josh campbell. Thanks for joining us. Renato, whats your reaction to manafort sharing information from mueller with trumps legal team . Im absolutely shocked. Its something that i have never heard of or seen in my time, both as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. So i was a prosecutor for almost a decade. Ive been a defense attorney on the other side. I have never heard of somebody flipping, in other words, being on the government side in a case, cooperating against everybody the government asks, and then sharing information with other people who are under investigation about what the prosecution is doing. Its highly unethical, and i think the communications between trumps team and manaforts team are not privileged. Those are communications that mueller
Denying ever meeting Julian Assange following a blockbuster report he had met with the wikileaks founder at least three times in previous years. Lets discuss now. Gentlemen, good evening. Thanks for joining us. So renato, whats your reaction to manafort sharing information from mueller with trumps legal team . Im absolutely shocked. Its something that i have never heard of or seen in my time. Both as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. So i was a prosecutor for almost a decade. Ive been a defense attorney on the other side. I have never heard of somebody flipping, in other words, being on the government side in a case, cooperating against everybody the Government Asks and then sharing information with other people who are under investigation about what the prosecution is doing. Its highly up ethical. And i think the communications between trumps team and manaforts team are not privileged. Those are communications that mueller could obtain. Was he essentially the president s spy. It se
Identity politics doesnt just apply when its black people or gay people or women. The folks who really originated identity politics were the person you said 3 5 clause no less. Thats identity politics. That is still out there. Greg he is dead right. The past was super racist. Just ask democrats going to war to defend slavery. That was then. Obama seems to be arguing around our current problem, kind of like when faced with islamic terror, you say this. Lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the crusades, the inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of christ. Greg i dont blame obamas what aboutism. An excuse is the one flaw that if fixed could unify his party in this country. That flaw is identity politics which prefers disunity and differences over mutual understanding. Political power based on grievance requires an Endless Supply of oppressors. Without them, there is no power. No wonder Young Healthy individuals
Saying the social media giant is failing its black employees and users. He will join me live in just a few minutes. We start with fights, fights, and more fights. Both parties with leadership elections today. Thats the easy part. The hard part, what can pass these last two weeks of congress . President trumps biggest priority, funding that border wall. Its do or die time for republicans who are about to lose their house majority. Yet, republicans already seem to be working on finger pointing if the law funding doesnt happen. The house has the president s i think its going to take more than 5 billion. After the election, democrats realize a secure border should not be a republican thing. It shouldnt be a democrat thing. Its just good for the country to actually secure our border. The house is there. We hope the senate comes with us. The president for his part telling politico he would totally be willing to shut down the government over border wall funding if democrats dont budge. Senate