them. that s politics right there. interesting story. mary katherine, the president taking credit for balderson s victory. when i decided to go to ohio he was down in early voting 64-36. that was not good. after my speech on saturday night there was a big turn for the better. now troy wins a great victory in a tough time of the year for voting. he ll win big in november. he floated in the tweets that he went 5 for 5. that s a reference to the five candidates he endorsed. one in special election and four in primaries. winning. does he deserve some credit here? if anything, a win for the trump/kasich alliance. only half kidding. there s lower turnout than expected in the rural areas and kasich s areas, more educated ex-urban suburban areas with better turnout. it is crazy for republicans not to see it as a warning sign. we are close to a november election. this should be every reason in
diplomatic channels. they say, the kremlin, they have not reviewed it and we should note that the meeting between putin and paul has not happened. jake? jim, thank you. we ll talk about wit the experts now. mary katherine, there s a schizophrenic foreign policy with russia. you have coats, wray saying that the russians, attacked us. cyber. doing it again right now. and then you have president trump and rand paul who seem to be on a different page. right, yeah. you have this constantly divergence of the president specifically saying publicly and the policies that they re putting in place. many tough and good. but that s a problem because what the president says matters. now, rand paul has always been more on the interventionist leading isolationist side than many people in the senate but i hate the way it s framed by trump supporters and by more libertarian parts of the party where it says either war or
counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and false statements. all stemming from an alleged insider trading scheme of an australian bio tech firm for which collins was a board member and it s difficult not to notice that the president who repeatedly declared himself the law and order candidate on the campaign trail whose crowds continue to chant that his opponent hillary clinton to be locked up, that president seems to have people in the orbit to m to run afoul of the law. just in the last day, the president s former deputy campaign chairman rick gates was testifying about crimes he says he committed with president trump s former campaign chairman paul manafort. plus, cnn also has learned that the president s former fixer and long-time attorney michael cohen is under federal investigation for tax fraud. that s just the last day. within hand, the public can be reassured that american institutions of law enforcement
special counsel doesn t seem to be closing the gap of the two sides negotiating for eight months. and instead, it seems to be showing us just how far apart they remain. president trump s legal team responding to the special counsel s latest request for an interview today. we have given him an answer. he obviously should take a few days to consider it. but we should get this resolved. reporter: the president s lawyers declining to characterize their response to robert mueller. we won t discuss the contents of the letter to send but i ll tell you this. that our response will be is thoughtful and includes issues that are raised under the constitution so i ll leave it at that. reporter: while urging him once again to bring the investigation to an end. we do not want to run into the november elections. so back up from that, this should be over with by september 1st. reporter: the response is latest in the back and forth between the two sides that has
allegations. of course, we ll hear more from the congressman appearing for that news conference in buffalo around 6:30. jake? bryn, thanks so much. i want to set the scene for a second. brynn mentioned this white house none of this has to do with president trump directly, of course. but on june 22nd, 2017, that s when prosecutors say the congressman got that e-mail including insider information and started to calling his son and just so happens he was at the congressional picnic at the white house surrounded by the colleagues, tons of people. look at this part. this was 7:30. everyone s taking pictures. collins distracted. perhaps looking down at the phone. this is exactly 14 minutes after collins according to prosecutors called his son to give him the tip. i mean, it really is remarkable. again, innocent until proven guilty. people seem to think that there aren t going to be investigations or records of these things. i mean, the term that people use, culture of corruption. him b