he campaigned for the nomination. party activists were psyched and donald trump didn t care what was on the platform. let ted cruz get excited about that platform. it s not a binding document, who cares. that was an interesting thing though watch at the time. presidential nominee takes himself out of the process. but what was way more interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we couldn t make tails are heads of at the time was the trump campaign s one exception on the party platform. even though all this other stuff slide not keeping with trump and the campaign they did decide to get up on their hind skplegz fight and interseed aggressively for one specific thing on the platform, one specific part of the republican party platform, and that was a thing about
in the republican party platform to make it nicer to russia? why are they admitting it now after denying it for months? i don t know. but tonight as i said, this breaking news, politico is reporting that the fbi is on to this now, too because this russian citizen who worked with paul manafort reportedly visited paul manafort while he was running the trump campaign at the time and he reportedly later told people that what he came to the united states for last summer was to get that language changed in the republican party flat form on the issue of russi russia. you can feel the pillars start to sway here a little bit. now we have an explanation for it. now we re fessing up. why did you deny it for so long? what s the fbi finding? why is a russian citizen involved. every week we ve had a previous
new piece of it falls in place and this is just the latest one. in the last couple of weeks and days, even into tonight more pieces of it are falling into place. the trump campaign used to deny that any of its staffers, anyone related to the trump campaign had any contact with any russians during the campaign. well, no, in fact, meetings between trump campaign people and russias have led to the resignation of the national security adviser, that s led to the recusal of the attorney general of the united states. the trump campaign as of last night is not only admitting a trip to russia by one of its official foreign policy advisers during the campaign but as of last night they re now admitting this trip was authorized by the trump campaign at the time he went to moscow. now politico.com is reporting what is basically a direct russian tie to that change in the republican party platform to benefit russia last year. if politico s reporting is accurate, the fbi is looking into a russian nati
revealed as the author of this dossier of alleged russian dirt. the reason i raise the issue of that dossier in conjunction with this new information about the trump campaign now admitting that, yeah, they did change the republican party platform to make it more pro-russian, the reason i raised these two things together, that dossier and finally us getting an explanation on what happened with that ukraine and russia plank and the republican convention, the reason i raised these together is because one of the baseline allegations of that dossier is actually it appears to be about that platform change. one of the things it alleges is allegedly a quid pro quo between the trump campaign and russia. the russian regime has been behind the apparent leak from the democratic national committee to the wikileaks platform. the reason for using wikileaks was plausible deniability.
by the trump campaign, whether it s about jeff sessions, michael flynn, carter page, about the ukraine platform, whether it s about paul manafort, their previous denials are falling apart. and we are also learning more in dribs and drabs about the law enforcement investigations and counterintelligence investigations that are under way into the trump campaign in russia and we are learning more dribs and drabs everyday about what the intelligence committees in congress might be able to do in their investigations, whether or not they do it. so we re learning more about what happened. we re learning more about what bull pucky the trump campaign denials were on this stuff. we re learning more about these investigations. what we re going to talk about tonight in part is that there is up with other piece of this that is getting clearer each day and it s something jeff sessions has not recused from and the intelligence committees are not thinking about investigating it but it s starting to fee