you would be trying to appeal to exactly the same voter. holding the position that there should be an impeachment inquiry. what does that do to your path to the convention, to your ability to pick up delegates going into that convention? lawrence, the unstated premise of your question i think is that nothing s going to change after the house committee launches its inquiry. inquiries have a way of unearthing information. and voters generally if new information comes to right, they re going to pay attention to it. and the next on impeachment, nixon was lugely popular. i was advised not to take a position in that inquiry even though i was on the republican said. they said kid, it s going to be the end of your career because the president is so popular. he just won 49 states. mr. trump has not just won 49 states and he is not at 91% approve of both parties as bush 41 was. but nonetheless, you know, you don t know the what the inquiry
that i know what they re talking about because i do. but beyond that, if people won t be persuaded, they won t be persuaded. it seems in the reporting that democratic leadership in the house are worried about those swing voters in districts that congressional districts that were formerly republican, people who voted for a republican member of congress but there last time voted for a democrat. they re worrying about alienating them. you would be trying to appeal to exactly the same voter. holding the position that there should be an impeachment inquiry. what does that do to your path to the convention, to your ability to pick up delegates going into that convention? lawrence, the unstated premise of your question i think is that nothing s going to change after the house committee launches its inquiry. inquiries have a way of unearthing information. and voters generally if new information comes to right, they re going to pay attention to it.
it indicates seriousness and as richard said he could have been jerking them around a little bit and they may have tried to use a subpoena to get the information. the shortancer to that is yes. flip him or someone close to him? absloutly. he s one of the people that has tan genital issues unrelated to russia investigations. absolutely. what do you think about that, richard, because someone close to him, who might that be? well, he s up there near the top of the food chain in terms of dealing with the russians. donald trump has pub lackly talked about the use of pardens and when you think about that, the idea of pardoning somebody in this investigation without their booing any charges levied at all now and calling the investigation fake news and a witch hunt.
probable cause affidavit. the trump administration isn t taking any of this lightly. so the new york times reports they had spent time digging into the history of mueller s team. unearthing information. do you think attempts to discredit mueller and his team will have any impact on this investigation lat? i think perhaps in the political circles to figure out whether the president is trying to distract from the issues. but in the legal context, it will have very little to do with the investigation. mueller s financial disclosures have already been made along with parlts of his team. so really if anything it shows that there is a paranoia that continues to grow and paranoia invites further speculation and further detailed investigations. what if he tries to fire mueller? don t cross a red line by
cnn, laura, news the fbi took president trump and minutes of his inner circle rattled a few cages, are the presidential and his team right to be rattled by this raid? i would say so. especially because of course manafort was the person who was not a little guy in the campaign. he was the person who headed the campaign for quite some time during the period of time where alleged collusion was alleged to have ramped up in a significant period of time. the fbi doesn t come do a predawn no-knock announcement warrant to tell you to have a cup of coffee with them. they re trying to get information and evidence and records that are going to indicate there has been perhaps a crime committed. remember, they have to actually go to a federal judge and show probable cause that this person may have evidence that leads to or suggests a crime or an ongoing crime. so laura, but why a raid in the middle of the night? in the predawn hours. it s also clandestine. like what s going on here?