please address this matter. it seems incredibly important. to be fair to the republicans on the committee, they have not said they absolutely have not said there was no collusion. they said we saw no evidence of collusion and mike conway, very decent guy, said that. now the president seized on that to say there is no collusion. but they are doing the president s bying. no question. i understand they can make that distinction but they know what the president is going do with their carefully-worded conclusion. no question at all. we re going to push to have the transcripts of the many interviews released because the republican questioning always consisted of this, looking at the witness and saying and i kid you not, did you collude with the russians? did you see anybody colluding with the russians? did you cooperate? did you see anybody? no, no, no. okay, end of story. that s not an investigation but it s important to remember that
weekend. especially tweet where he found out andrew mccabe kept memos like james comey did. what the president said is reprehensible. mccabe may have made mistakes. discipline may have been appropriate. i put faith in people who put in recommendations that some disciplinary action be implemented. but the role of the attorney general in this makes no sense jeff sessions was recused from the underlying case that mccabe has been disciplined for and, of course, he himself has been under great pressure by the president to move on a number of fronts, including to fire mcc e mccabe. sessions should have recused himself from the beginning. this shows why the process was so rushed. why mccabe wasn t allowed to retire as happens in other cases. why this disciplinary action was issued before the inspector general report came out which is not the way it usually occurs at doj. you can see the president s
acknowledged that he is, in fact, david denison, the alias used in the stormy daniels non-disclosure agreement. katty kay rp is how she was threatened, where she was threatened. the funny thing is i don t know if funny is the right word but this could end up having more damage to this president more immediately than the ongoing cases. with trump there seems to be a pattern that when there is a question of evidence, memos, texts, photographs potentially being produced that s when he gets nervous and that s what happened during last week, the story came out that stormy daniels may have texts and photographs, whatever it is, r from the course of their
cross this president in that way. mike? congressman, let me ask you. off couple things going on we re talking about. one is the dally damage being done to the institution of the presidency. the other is this latest element of the story, facebook s involvement in the election last year. we don t know the extent of it yet. but it s clearly par usually being funded by invisible billionaires like robert mercer. talk about the damage being done by things like cambridge analytica to facebook to the american voter and what will be done about it if anything in the congress of the united states. it s a great question, mike. i think focusing on the voter is the right way to go. what i mean by that is it s up to every american to remember that the president involved in litigation with a porn star. the president calling a phone
what matters here is what the american people see in this report and in those transcripts. within this facebook story there s an important element. it s a free country, you can spend your money any way you want, i get that but there are billionaires like the mercers literally trying to purchase a new government. what do we do about that? mike, this goes back well before facebook and manipulating data. since citizens united the mercers can write a $50 million check to elect the a senator, congressman, or president. in the state of connecticut, we watched the current administrator of the small business administration spend $100 million in two senate races. now, she lost both of those races and now she s the administrator of the small business administration but my point is it s not just about buying data on facebook, it s about people capable of doing it spending tens of millions of dollars to influence our politics, i get the first amendment arguments. i bet if alexander hamilton an