in addition to the candidate himself denying having anything to do with it, his campaign manager paul manafort, who had done all that work in ukraine, he also denied having anything to do with it. there s been some controversy about something in the republican party platform that essentially changed the republican party s views when it comes to ukraine. how much influence did you have on changing that language, sir? i had none. in fact, i didn t hear of it until after our convention was over. where did it come from, then. everybody on the platform committee said it came from the trump campaign. if not you, who? it absolutely did not from the trump campaign and i don t know who everybody is but i guarantee you it was nobody on the platform. so nobody from the trump campaign wanted that change in the platform? no one. zero. so after the republican convention the candidate himself denies having anything to do with it. his campaign manager paul manafort denies having anything
interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we couldn t make heads or tails of at the time was the trump campaign s one exception on the party platform. even hope the they let this other stuff slide, that was very much not in keeping with trump and the campaign, they did decide to get up on their hind legs and fight and intercede aggressively for one specific thing in the platform. one specific part of the republican party platform, and that was a thing about russia. there was a proposed plank for the republican party platform that said ukraine should get help from the united states up to and including lethal weaponry so ukraine could fight off russian incu and you know what, the trump campaign let everything else in the platform slide. even stuff that might theoretically have bothered them but that, that ukraine and russia thing, they jumped right up on that and insists that
he is willing to come before the committee, i can say i am more than willing to go to him. i know there are other members of the committee who would join me in that. that s an unusual offer from the top member of the intelligence committee. i will go to you, sir, i will go to a foreign country to get your testimony. stay where you are, we can come to you. this is a guy who thinks he has safety issues. this is a guy who has been in hiding for weeks in fear for his own safety ever since he was 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
there s been some controversy about something in the republican party platform that essentially changed the republican party s views when it comes to ukraine. how much influence did you have on changing that language, sir? i had none. in fact, i didn t hear of it until after our convention was over. where did it come from, then. everybody on the platform committee said it came from the trump campaign. if not you, who? it absolutely did not from the trump campaign and i don t know who everybody is but i guarantee you it was nobody on the platform. so nobody from the trump campaign wanted that change in the platform? no one. zero. so after the republican convention the candidate himself denies having anything to do with it. his campaign manager paul manafort denies having anything to do with it, denies that neither he nor anyone from the trump campaign had anything do with it. how did it happen? don t know, must have been fairies. now that bizarre non-explanation, those den
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. the operation has been conducted with the full knowledge and support of trump and senior members of his campaign team. in return, the trump team has agreed to sideline russian