heard today from director comey, that he answered the questions, that there was really nothing about russia, only the emails and that there was no problem with the fisa or the surveillance warrant process. and it will also allow us to test the statements of republicans that a government lawyer really ran a lot of interference and shut down critical lines of questioning. sean: so much here though. if you look catherine, remember christopher steele in that interrogatory wouldn t stand by his don t dossier. if it was as the nunes and grassly graham memo say, the bulk of information in the fisa applications came from the dossier and its own author doesn t the stand by it one has to question if the email chain exists as john solomon reported that said directly james comey s name was on it, did they verify it? when? what part did they verify? was it wrong? was a fraud committed on the court?
with families and lives here. and they want to believe the side that fits their narrative, not the fact that, oh they re saying ed all these horrible things but i m going to believe this one thing that he said here, not that contradicts what he previously had said. well right. right. i will mean there s two things that i think are important here. number one when you read both of the documents that the doj put out tonight with respect to manafort and cohen the underlying principle in both is that they lied, they didn t tell the truth. that s what they got busted for. you made the point earlier in the show, don t lie, don t cheat on your taxes, file the forms correctly. that is what this is about. sean: they didn t. that s what they re getting busted for, this has nothing to do with the president. sean: alright. quick break, this busy news night continues.
the prosecutor s recommended only a slight reduction to the suggested five year prison sentence. the next memo from the special counsel, that focused on cohen admitting that he lied under oath to the federal government writing the sentence imposed should reflect the fact that lying to federal prosecutor s has real consequences. the one thing these two filings have in common, nothing to do with russia or collusion at all. zero evidence in any of these documents of trump russia collusion. zero. now today the president applauded the ruling, tweet did, quote, totally clears the president. thank you. the president s attorney rudy juliani called these findings complete exoneration of the president. they have nothing. we are very happy about it. and president and juliani, they re right about this. legal scholar alan dershowitz very passionate tonight echoing a lot of these sent at this meant saying don t think about making a deal with mueller
but he really has. now when the nfl season resumes before the mid terms trump will have something else to talk about and they will be able to target and pinlon hole players that don t come out of the locker room and they will be able to fine teams whose players take a knee. this is problematic because the players union should have been consulted. the appropriate response was to go back to the policy several years ago where no one was on the field during the national anthem. the anthem was played and then the players took to the field afterwards. the other thing, too, it continues to misunderstand and ris represent what kaepernick were doing in the first place. they weren t protesting the be a them or our troops, they are taking a knee in reverence of those who inspectly die here in america and who frankly our troops die to protect.
for president, they need to make sure they have got a lot of check and balances. should democrats be in this meeting. yeah, i think so. i m joined by pennsylvania republican republican congressman ryan costello. good to see you. thanks for coming on. good to see you. thank you. i want to start with this meeting. do you think democrats or, you know, the gaining of eight, yourself would you like to attend? who should be allowed in. i don t know if i need to be there, but i do think it needs to be either the gang of eight or there needs to be some sort of balancing out of who is going to be there so the optics the optics of this don t look very good at the moment. to senator graham s point there was a lot of ifs involved in senator grahams graham s reasons for needing to be there. i m afraid it s turning into a soap opera even before the meeting happens. is the speaker of the house in the position to demand more people attend the meeting.