discussing, you and i, for a while, the anticipation of this indictment, now that you ve seen it had a chance to read it, what is your reaction to what you found? i agree with susan, and i think a very good sign of that is comparing the public statements of weisselberg s attorneys to those of the company s attorneys, the company did a full on attack it reminded me of what we face and the special counsel investigation. but mary, the lead lawyer for alan weisselberg had a very quiet statement, and just said he s going to plead not guilty and he s going to prepare the case for trial. it wasn t a full blunt attacked. that is leaving the option open for him to cooperates. my read of this entire indictment is that for days before we were getting the trump spin, to me not only is
information. how valuable might this second whistle-blower be? well, wolf, it is what you said. firsthand knowledge. so the knock on the first whistle-blower was, well this is all secondhand and hearsay and that is the trump spin. i will note everything that we know in the whistle-blower complaint jives with what we know about the ukraine call and everything else thus far despite donald trump s claims to the contrary. but firsthand knowledge and intelligence community confirmation affirmation, a stronger foundation on which democrats will look to probe the president. if, nia, the second whistle-blower was listening in on the phone call and saw the transcript sort of rough transcript that even the white house said wasn t an official transcript, saw it and it has complaints about what was in that so-called transcript or other relevant information, that could be very significant if that person has that firsthand kind of knowledge. that is right. very significant and hard for
so you might be familiar with the work of president trump s super fan john mcgnaw ton. he s been reinterpreting famous pieces of art like washington crossing the delaware with his own trump spin. now he s got a new piece called the masterpiece. not everyone loves it. ginny most reminds us when it comes to art work everyone s a critic. donald trump has done a few skyline sketches for charity. it looks like a bunch of middle finger salutes was one critique. even president trump doesn t call himself an artist, so what s this? the title is going to be the masterpiece. john mcnaughton has made a name for himself with his trump fan art. remember trump crossing the
vote of 300-128, another veto-proof majority in the house of representatives. the president s signature is not necessary on this bill. it was never going to be necessary. suspense about the signature has always been a joke because these are veto-proof majorities in both bodies. the president could veto it and it would be instantly passed by the same vote in both bodies and become law without the signature. so the signature suspense has been a trump spin of the week to try to keep his right-wing extremists in line. today s developments were inevitable from the moment president trump made the disastrous and irresponsible mistake of shutting down the government. the white house tried to create that suspense in the last couple weeks about whether the president would sign this compromised government funding bill that was voted on today. but that suspense was never real, not for a single moment.
so the signature suspense has been a trump spin of the week to try to keep his right-wing extremists in line. today s developments were inevitable from the moment president trump made the disastrous and irresponsible mistake of shutting down the government. the white house tried to create that suspense in the last couple weeks about whether the president would sign this compromised government funding bill that was voted on today. but that suspense was never real, not for a single moment. there are enough shell-shocked washington reporters who have had the president so unpredictable that they continued to fall for that suspense, which is completely understandable, but it was always clear, has always been clear that donald trump had absolutely no choice and was going to go along with this. nancy pelosi had beaten him, beaten him very, very badly in this showdown from the moment she and chuck schumer taunted the president before christmas into affordably saying that he