judicial restraint. have you been amazed at the selective silence on the part of this president on all things stormy daniels related? i am reminded he has plans to go to the friendly confines of mar-a-lago as early as tomorrow night to catch the tail end of his family s week of spring break. yeah, he has been very quiet. he s somebody who s not restrained, as you pointed commenting on almost any other matter that comes before him, matters that have nothing to do with him. he s a watcher of television, he likes to weigh in on many, many different subjects. he s not somebody who holds back. but on this subject, at least, he has been very, very quiet. and that is what any lawyer would tell a client to do. but as we ve seen in the past, this is a client who sometimes doesn t listen to the advice of lawyers. it s interesting that he is here. his lawyers i m sure are telling him any lawyer would tell him, you can only make things worse by commenting publicly, so keep out of it. he seem
the president s overall health is excellent. his cardiac health is excellent. he has incredible genes. remain fit for duty for the remainder of this term and even for the remainder of another term if he s elected. let s talk about this with retired four-star u.s. army general barry mccaffrey, former battlefield commander in the persian gulf, now an msnbc military analyst. he also served as this nation s drug czar under president clinton. general what do you make of this choice? and i m also curious as to your customer experience as a more important than average customer of the va. well, it s certainly a very unusual appointment. by all accounts, by the way, this young admiral is a superb physician. look at his background. he s been the honor graduate of most of his courses. he was a combat doctor in iraq. so he s genuinely a very capable physician with a lot of time in washington. and he s got the confidence of the president of the united states.
former trump campaign aide rick gates, he s an aide to manafort, was in contact during the 2016 campaign with a business associate tied to russian intelligence. mark mazzetti of the new york times writes, gates had frequent phone calls in september and october 2016, note that date, with a person the fbi believes had active links to russian spy services at the time, the document said. mr. gates told the associate the person was a former russian intelligence officer with the gau. the person is identified as person a, and the document describes him as someone who worked for mr. gates and paul manafort. mueller just drew his most direct line to date between the trump campaign and russia. what s particularly significant in the mueller filing are six words. and had such ties in 2016. prosecutors have said previously that a long-time manafort and gates associate had ties to russian intelligence, but they have never said those ties remained during the 2016 campaign. and that s the di
and i think mr. conway is right. i don t know if his wife, kellyanne, agrees with him. but this is absolutely flabbergasting, what s happening in this administration. no way i d want to be their lawyer. two gentlemen, one view of our politics and the state of our nation in 2018. peter baker, richard painter, thank you both very much for joining our conversation. coming up, the president has fired yet another cabinet secretary, yet again on twitter. what we know about the president s pick to take over when the 11th hour continues.
states being deposed as michael avenatti seeks to do here. it led to the monica lewinski case because president clinton told false stories under oath about monica lewinski in that lawsuit. these have great consequences. they can detour, sidetrack a presidency in ways you might not imagine on the front end. you can see why president trump s attorney will regret the effort to quash this lawsuit and at the very least avoid any kind of deposition. let s talk about emoluments which to many people sounds like the active ingredient in a moisturizer. this assumes if you re coming from the uae or senegal or fiji, common sense would tell you, hey, if we get our rooms at the trump hotel and then maybe during that conference in washington, let it be known we brought him our business, he s subject to flattery, it may mean good things for us. this, these suits as i understand it, are people, cities, hotels who are saying, we re losing out on business. they are trying to prove harm to their livelih