who has kind of hinted he might look more sympathetically but this is going to be tough to get around. john, that s a different ruling today from what we saw earlier in the month. remember the federal judge in virginia that said manafort may have only been scrutinized in an effort to get the president. wouldn t you say it is quite different, right? very different. well, he was sort of chatting on the bench about his perception of the case. he wasn t actually ruling on anything in those words, and i think that with judge jackson s it is about a 30-page opinion. i went through it quickly, and it is well-reasoned, and it is just not going to go away if judge ellis thinks that the department of justice can t prosecute who it wants with which prosecutors it wants. let s move on. i want to talk about rudy guilliani to you guys and, laura, first to you. rudy guilliani made a number of headlines since coming aboard the president s legal time. today the president s long-time personal at
what is, as evan said before, in a sense, there is a whole infrastructure that they represent, too. as we learned, a lot of them vote in virginia. but i also so there are some practical, you know, ramifications to this. but, no, the president every time he digs in on this sounds a little bit more suspicious about what he is trying to accomplish, what putin might have on him, who he is in fact, worried about. what he is worried about. because, as you mention, the level of evidence not just of russian involvement in our election but also of the incredibly high number of dealings between the trump campaign and the russian government, or people close to the russian government is getting very, very high. and to have him come out and speak this, you know, sympathetically about president putin s position is the kind of thing that just fits right into the larger suspicions being
the russians and he should have put that out there. jon: the statement that director comey quoted was was e you come at goal, meeting the investigation into former national security of director general flynn. in brad s view, that is obstruction of justice, is it? it it is not. he s feeling sorry for a decorated general who he felt was through enough. the president was talking sympathetically about the general, he wasn t directing comey to do anything. when comey left, he didn t do anything. when he did was he went and coupled with his senior staff to cut out the attorney general and when he was fired, he leaked about it. comey is no choir boy or eagle scout like you want somebody to believe. that s clear. i sympathize with brad because this was a very difficult case for them defend.
conference reacting to recent i.c.e. raids in president trump s address to congress. she shared a story about her father and brother who are now facing deportation. shortly thereafter, the 22-year-old found herself in handcuffs. her case has sparked some outrage as some question whether her arrest is retaliation for speaking publicly. one important note, vargas is a so-called dreamer brought to the united states when she was only 7 years old. president trump has spoken sympathetically about the dreamers. cnn s nick virginia lens i caal. they say they had good reason to arrest vargas. reporter: that deferred action status expired in november. the last few months she was living here in the united states illegally. when i.c.e. agents initially came to her family s door in mid february they were looking for her brother and her father. they had a warrant according to local paper because they were am possession of a firearm which is a felony for an undocumented immigrant to do. danielle a
his family reached out and was trying to tell me the was nt associated with the crime. he talked to a newspaper columnist who wrote sympathetically. and every delay and manipulation was slow torture. i believe that everyone should have a fair and just trial and that too often people who are poor or people of color do not or most often they don t get prop representation or a fair shake. but this was not that. and then finally on a crisp fall day in chicago, the state versus reginald potts began. it had taken eight years to get here. when it was finally happening we were confused about how thing would go down. there s finally a trial. what type of experience is this