By his thinking, why deprive good friday visitors of a good visit to an iconic irish pub. Submit ted without judgment. That is our program for a friday nig night. Whatever your persuasion, we wish you a good weekend. Good night from our headquarters here in new york. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Icing is in and public criticism of russia is still very much out. Nbc news with extraordinary reporting about Donald Trumps quote, president Donald Trumps National Security advisor spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new u. S. Weapons to ukraine to aid in the countrys fight against russianbacked separatists. When the president finally authorized the major policy shift, he told his aides not to publicly tell his decision because doing so might agitate russian president Vladimir Putin. Quote, he doesnt want to bring it up, one white house official tells nbc news. It is not something he wants to talk about, this source says. This new reporting helps fill in
jill, let me let you jump in and pick up this thread based on the breaking news. just before we came on the air, we reported that bob mueller and his investigators detained a trump ally at the airport, at the logan airport. his name is ted malloch. he said he was told it was a felony to lie to the fbi. he would gladly cooperate with them. the agents produced a document allowing him to search his cell phone. i guess it was some sort of search warrant. chuck will correct me if i m wrong. and malloch said the questions got more detailed about my involvement with the trump campaign which was informal and unpaid. whom i communicated with, whom i knew and how well. they had a long list of names. he said they asked him about former trump campaign advisor roger stone, author jerome coursy and wikileaks. he said he met stone a total of three times and always with
he says just last month he got a call from a friend still on the inside. he told me, look, be careful. look around. his source told him he was one of eight on a hit list. it includes skripal and christopher steele, author of the infamous trump/russia dossier. do you think that the fact that there are i mean, america it s so surreal. america s allies are responding to russia s actions in the u.k. against russians living there. do you think that there is a danger in not just people not seeing these stories, but being misinformed about the nature of vladimir putin s russia? there is no question that this is probably the grave est danger that faces our country right now. in that report which i watched earlier, you have the conclusion that the nerve toxin was likely
that s where the danger is. fox news used to represent conservative opinion. now it represents a cultive personality. that s what s changed. that s my point. that s dangerous. and we never did that i mean, on this station, a lot of us were progressive, liked president obama, but there were people on the far left would come on this station and attack obama. he didn t define progressive politics. they are allowing trump to define the parameters of what it is to be a right winger. if you re anti-trump, you re no longer a legitimate right winger. that s dangerous. you come on over here. up next the shocker, the people in charge of hiring the very best people to work for donald trump do not appear to be the very best people based on an extraordinary piece of investigative reporting from the washington post. whoooo.
now, whose decision that was your experience? that was my experience. whose decision was i don t know. it would be foolish to consider the possibility that a network owner who treasures his proximity to power, his proximity to the candidate and now his proximity to the president might be averse to having someone like ralph peters with impeccable conservative credentials attacking him for the right, precisely on this hypersensitive issue of russia because, of course, on this subject peters is absolutely right. i have to just say also, it s a business decision, right? if your audience is aligned with trump because of rote extreme partisanship, you have to keep that audience there. if you lose that audience, if they realize there is a problem with trump, they go to other competitors we put together, we wanted to show people who he was. he is such a right winger that fox is the only place he could find a tv home, i would guess. and so to the point but