staff, installing a private phone in his office. using secret service to pick up lunch and dry cleaning. spending taxpayer money on trips to italy, morocco, disneyland, the rose bowl, and multiple trips to his home in oklahoma. so let s start there with two cnn political commentators. par is denard, member of the trump advisory board. peter binard, contributing editor for the atlantic. happy independence day. and parris, with your red, white, and blue, let s begin with you. on scott pruitt, the fact that according to reports that he felt confident enough to go to the president and say, fire session and hire me, then i m going to go back to oklahoma and run for office. even though he has all of these investigations, you know, against him, can you defend that? is that hubris? it s surely confident i
donald trump or his campaign work i working with russia to do things to ensure they they won the election. that s unproven. that s why the president says emphatically that there was no collusion. peter, you get the last word. the mueller investigation is not over. so we don t know all the things he s found. wolverine th we know that there were meetings with people close to the russian government and trump sest advisers where they trump s closest advisers where they welcomed information against hillary clinton. what the mueller investigation will find ultimately. i think ultimately political at the s not going to make that much difference politically at this point. the fact that donald trump does not seem to have done anything to try to get the u.s. government to protect the united states from future interventions by russia or, for that matter, any other country in our elections given that parris and i would agree that regardless of russia s motive, it was
it s hard ton n donald trump s mind hard in donald trump s mind what would consider a ethics violation. a man who hasn t released his tax returns, has intermingled in unprecedented ways the affairs of state and private business afairfax bringing up his own affairs, bringing up his own business into meetings with heads of state, bringing his daughter, et cetera. it s than it s hard to imagine that if you re donald trump these things don t seem so terrible, but what i imagine they re seeing is this is bad publicity. they can probably find someone who has scott pruitt s ideological agenda, who s a little more discreet. let me move back to you, parris. michael cohen, big day tomorrow, back in court. noteworthy today, we put up his twitter page. you have the profile under twitter. originally he referred to himself as trump s personal attorney. that is now scrubbed. he s changed his cover photo. this is a couple of days after
look, it stands to reason that if michael cohen is facing a choice between flipping on donald trump and saying things that donald trump wouldn t want him to say and looking at a prison term, terrible ramifications for his family, the vast majority of people are going to put their family and themselves in front of donald trump. in that sense, yes, the trump administration has something to worry about. the political reality is that given the kind of hear no evil, see no evicti victi see no evd trump that is reflected by my fellow panelist and fox news and most of the republican party it woeb won t matter what the media uncovers about what trump was doing, what michael cohen says. literally no matter what comes out, people like parris will defend donald trump. actually you don t know me to say that i heard you so many times, and i ve never heard you criticize donald trump on anything. actually, that s not true. you should do better on your
she said she was sad, she was embarrassed, she was wrong. she was sorry. she also said she broke no laws. i know that god will forgive me, but nashville doesn t have to. i hope i can earn their trust and earn your trust back. she said the affair began just a few months into her first term in 2016. she said the affair is over now, but she was asked three times when exactly the affair ended. she refused to answer that question. shepard? shepard: there could be a state investigation coming? it s likely, shepard. a real question as to whether this affair was funded on the taxpayer s dime. the police sergeant more than doubled his overtime and a lot of travel expenses, too. more than 30,000 for the two of them in the past year. they went to parris, athens on nine separate occasions they went just the two of them. real questions about that. the mayor has said she will