not banned russian banks supporting the enterprise. so it was perfectly legal but something that trump would explain trump s alliances and allegiances with russia. and i wanted to add one other thing to how is everyone going to respond? there s a well known security program going on in aspen right now. i didn t make it this year. you have pompeo, homeland security and even sessions here in d.c. today, all the cabinet secretaries publicly disagreeing with the president. and that seems to me to be a loyalty test that trump is losing. and so it s sort of shocking about russia s involvement with the election, whether wikileaks is good or bad, whether they re responsible for 2016. they re publicly now on record
gloria s what s happening? well, what the president is doing is reshuffling his legal team. you now have a special counsel investigation that s really moving full steam ahead and i think the feeling inside the white house was that they needed a legal team with more washington experience, more experience in dealing with a special counsel. and mark kasowitz, who was the lead lawyer in the russia investigation, has now kind of been over taken and that is by a washington attorney with a lot of experience who s going to be inside the white house, ty cobb and another attorney, john dowd, who is going to take the lead along with jay, who will be the president s primary personal attorney for the investigation. so you see kind of a whole new
directive to mueller in may t was a very broad mandate. it was broad. it had to do with any links and coordination between the russian government and the campaign. what happened then and become of that and the changing narrative is anything can come of that. and that s what mueller s doing and all of the stuff is wide open for muler to look at. so in my view i think the administration should put it all throughout, put this behind him. do you think because thavl rr given the the president has given interviews and said things publicly that they have inadvertently broadened the investigation or helped? i put it differently. i think at least the interview yesterday will be used in an investigation that was already ongoing. the idea that mueller wasn t
legal team being set up and kasowitz kind of becomes a victim in all of this because this is not the kind of law he s used to practicing and they needed people with more washington experience, quite honestly. and that was said at the beginning when he hired him for this russia investigation. was he the right person for this? and the president seemed to think so. there s also been a lot of t turmoil. i mean, i think the president has not been happy with the way this whole investigation is going. obviously we spent a day talking about what he said to the new york times. he wasn t happy about the special counsel in the first place and internally at the white house, he s made no secret about the fact he s not been happy about the way this has been handled and kasowitz has
april, i m going to begin with you because this news is a bomb shell. they re reporting the president is looking to his power to pardon his aids and even himself. some of president trump s lawyers are exploring ways to imlet or undercut special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. the question is pardon what? you know, don, so many d democrats and peopleal in the republican party want the process to play out but there are democrats who are saying this president is not acting like a man who is innocent and the question is why all this now? it makes you wonder. there are so many questions out here and it makes you wonder what has been uncovered.