it was his first tweet of the day calling the investigation a witch hunt. it s the 56th time he s tweeted that. he wrote isn t it ironic getting ready to go to the g7 in canada to fight or our country in trade. then off to singapore to meet with north korea and the nuclear problem. back home we have the 13 angry democrats pushing the witch hunt. joining me to talk about it is tom winter and mimi rocaw. this narrative, tom, gets richer and richer by the day. the 13 investigators on robert mueller s team didn t appoint themselves. they didn t gather in a room and decide that they re going forward with this investigation. they were appointed to do so. is there any evidence of a framing? rudy giuliani is talking about the this group attempting to frame the president. what do we know about this, if anything? first off, when i hear somebody is being framed, aassume they ve been charged.
all right. thank you very much, evan. obviously very significant details. and just all the specifics here, right? five hours, gosh, rudy giuliani would be thrilled with that. what was he saying, a couple but no more than 12? my goodness. outfront, national affairs correspondent for the nation joan walsh. former senior communications adviser to the campaign, jason miller. january 27th, five hours, camp david. this could all be in the rear-view mirror. are you bummed they didn t just get it done? what we don t know is how close the sides were. obviously we don t know if really what the full terms were. this could have been something where maybe the president s team didn t feel that it was that advantageous of a situation for them. but i mean, jason i know we don t know how close, and you and evan are both right to emphasize that. but a lot closer than we ve ever thought anybody was. we had a date, a time, a place. that s pretty specific is all i m saying. you don t get to
to contradicts that. what we have seen, a sideline, mr. aguilera, the oligarcoligar there s been reporting about that that trump wrote a letter to putin during that time. but this contradicts the late statements that he wasn t that interested in vladimir putin didn t know him very well. he was very interested in meeting vladimir putin in 2013 at the miss universe pageant. except, the sidebar is that this guy tried to set up the meeting with putin and the meeting didn t happen. well, then that could mean that trump wasn t interested in 2. no the meeting clearly didn t happen because on other reporting because vladimir putin s team didn t make it happen. but trump clearly wanted the meeting, stephanie. okeydoke. walks through, i see the ap is
purpose. enough of a purpose if you were one of those lawyers, usa versus manafort, one of the federal prosecutors work, that scare you? i don t think he s going to dismiss the case. some of the general comments he made don t go to the issue of whether there s a jurisdictional problem here. the motion is a jurisdictional motion. having read the papers, i think he will not dismiss it. but i do think he made those comments understanding that there was that they were going to be heard and that they would be used at least for some reason. so judge ellis is he turns 78 in a couple weeks. he s been on senior status for more than 10 years. he basically retired years ago. and one thing that he did not mention is that rod rosenstein signed off on this. this is the mueller team didn t just expand the scope of its investigation on its own. the person the deputy attorney general gave them permission to do so. so it s a little hard to see what the judge s legal reasoning would be to s
78 in a couple weeks. he s been on senior status for more than 10 years. he bale retired years ago. and one thing that he did not mention is that rod rosenstein signed off on this. this is the mueller team didn t just expand the scope of its investigation on its own. the person the deputy attorney general gave them permission to do so. so it s a little hard to see what the judge s legal reasoning would be to say that they had overstepped their bounds since that s the job of that deputy attorney general. i want to say it s not just judge ellis and this particular point here. there s more to the manafort investigation that has come out this week. first of all we know the ukraine has stopped cooperating with the manafort investigation once the u.s. offered and decided to sell weapons to ukraine. that s significant. we also know now the mueller team has questioned a russian billionaire who was on the