having that language in the republican party platform. and i asked j.d. gordon, why did you advocate for that language? and he said this is the language donald trump himself wanted and advocated for. this is just one thing that happened on the trump campaign. it was weird at the time. we got these denials that seemed implausible about it for months, now it s falling apart. why now? why are people from the trump campaign now admitting that, yeah, they did change that plank 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
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 national who was previously suspected of ties to the russian security services and they are reportedly looking into his role in what the trump campaign now admits were its efforts to what is it? sideline russian intervention in ukraine as a campaign issue. to take russian intervention in ukraine out of the republican party platform as an issue. it s everyday another piece of it gets corroborated. so we will all continue to describe this dossier from christopher steele as unfounded and unsupported and that is true when it comes to the dossier s baseline allegation that the
even the outrageous ones. it seems like a new one each passing day. now the author of this dossier has surfaced in britain and he s okay. about any u.s. investigation of this matter. seems like a very important question whether or not investigators are going to talk to him, whether they are going to get testimony from the author of this dossier. with each passing day more parts of the dossier get supported by the facts and previous denials 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
to get testimony from the author of this dossier. with each passing day more parts of the dossier get supported by the facts and previous denials 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
specifically at donald trump s request. gordon says he was a part of the effort that was pushed by the trump campaign to put some language in the gop platform that essentially said that the republican party did not advocate for arming the ukrainians in their battle against pro-russian separatists. that was a big issue flaring up at the time of the republican convention. that effort was successful in having that language in the republican party platform. and i asked j.d. gordon, why did you advocate for that language? and he said this is the language donald trump himself wanted and advocated for. this is just one thing that happened on the trump campaign. it was weird at the time. we got these denials that seemed implausible about it for months, now it s falling apart. why now? why are people from the trump campaign now admitting that, yeah, they did change that plank