in real estate. steve schwarzman from blackstone who is one of the ceo advisors to president trump, i asked him myself two years ago in davos, are you ining in russia and with russia which so many people are and he clearly said i do not do business in places where we don t have a firm understanding of the rule of law. so it s not fair to say that everyone was awash with russia and if they were, president trump is welcome to tell us that and he hasn t. it s never been disclosed if that, in fact, he s got money from russia it was not on his disclosure forms. what the trumps have said is something akin to, we sell luxury towers a lot of russian buyers. the steels do see yea explicitly said we tried to look for a russian connections and we didn t find any. that was this very damaging dossier in other ways. it was interesting a fact to put out there. the opacity is the most important thing that s what you re saying and to clear it up he can t or the trumps can t both say hey, trust us b
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how big a deal would it be to leave it to the pentagon and does this essentially say pentagon is setting more policy? he said i know more than the generals. i ve been in the middle of the conversation between the white house and pentagon and you need both. you need the secretary of defense, you need the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, you need the combatant and field commander on one side and the national security adviser and national security council and ultimately the commander in chief, the president himself, to make these decisions. they have to be done within the national security council. they have to have a functioning interagency discussion with the state department, the intelligence community, bringing all players to the table and hammer it out. if the commander came forward with a request with 3,000 or 3500 or 4,000 troops if auto i were the national security adviser i would ask what for, what are your missions, where will the troops be deployed and once the presiden
um, senator graham i can t comment on that because that impacts an investigation. okay. we have not seen president trump s taxes. james clapper is saying he cannot comment on whether there are business ties to russia. just yesterday, we were talking about a 2014 interview that eric trump did with a golf reporter, not part of some liberal media attack hound troupe, who said, yeah, we get our our lenders are russian. we don t need american banks. we have russian lenders. don jr. snads 2008 at a real estate conference, they have a disproportionate amount of investment from russia and yesterday eric trump said lie, not real news, fake, eric trump, please, i would love for you to come on and tell us if russia wasn t your lenders in 2014, what exactly you meant, because we don t want to mislead any viewers. what s your take? well, it s obvious we know well, that the trumps had a lot
follow him on twitter. i do too. too much. but the reality, i just don t the republicans and i don t feel that they care about covering americans who need, you know, like jimmy kimmel s child. i think they wanted a win, they passed this cynical piece of legislation, they celebrated it in the white house rose garden. now you ve got this could that be why president trump has somewhat made it clear that he s going to have now this hands off approach now that it s sitting in senate? because he feels like he got his win, he needed to get it through, now for the hard part he s going to leave that to mitch? he didn t get a win. he got something he could claim to be a win. it is so far from being a win and so disgusting what he does, by having a ceremony in the white house, in the rose garden, make it slijs he has a win, he does not have a win, he s claiming it as a win. bill cohen, jeff jarvis doesn t get to win the preexisting condition battle because you re on my show and i, t