Also wired money to some of these vendors that we heard about last week, including the clothing people that ostrich jacket. He explained how those money flows went there. So hes connecting the dots for prosecutors. He also explained how he helped falsify documents at manaforts request at the banks so manafort could get mortgages and he also explained how they falsified his tax returns, explaining how they moved things that should have been income to loans and back to back dated documents. At One Point Manafort was under financial duress. Prosecutors showed an email of manafort sending to gates which manafort says w. T. F. , we need to discuss options. This is a disaster. Hes Instructing Gates to help him come up with some solution with the accountants about how to fix his tax returns so he doesnt get hit with quite a large of bill as he was expecting. So gates testimony is continuing and we expected the crossexamination to begin in a
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retethered themselves to reality and tried to reclaim some semblance of what the republican party used to be. they made a collective decision that they weren t going to walk away from donald trump and they all applied the paddles to donald trump s political future and his political influence. and today he is i would argue more powerful in the republican party than he was even as president. claire, karl rove writes in the wall street journal this about where the republicans are vis-a-vis trump and insurrection. if democrats had done what trump supporters did on that violent january 6th, republicans would have criticized them mercilessly and been right to do so. republicans would have torched any high official who encouraged rye lens or stood mute while it was wanged. republicans would have demanded an investigation to find out who was responsible for the violence and been right to do so. there can be no soft pedaling what happened and no solution for those who planned encouraged and
own run ins with the president, eric gar set cetti. at the end of the day, do you owe the government if they re not going to build the train. absolutely not, i think the president forgets there is a second branch called congress. it has been appropriated and put into a project that will build high speed rail. and it is not going where i want it to complete, but you have to choose your ep mys and friends and decide how to take away their funds. he is not doing this for other maces that didn t vote his way. there is a weird chicken and egg thing here. problems that were here before president trump if seems to be
new york times as the enemy of the people. i want to say one thing about bill barr. i covered him years ago, he was an attorney general of the united states, and he i think has much more power through the president, if bill barr speaks, and he is experienced enough, poke his finger. trump will need, the president will need to kind of sit still and he can rage about it, but i think he will be limited in what which he do about it as a practical matter. there is only so many acting people you can have in your cabinet. it feels like they have
bump but my word, sanders jumped to 44, highest number he has had, as they ve been testing this thus far. it s a reminder how big his base is and how big the percent is. elizabeth warren still has her work cut out if she s going to grab the sanders supporter. there s a big progressive base out there. mayor garcetti was poo-poo ing that notion that the democratic race will be affected where you are on the political spectrum. i think that will be one of the central questions for the democratic party this time around, is how they want to position themselves, not just vis-a-vis trump but in terms of talking to swing voters, independents, republicans who are fed up with trump. do they want to go in that direction or do they want to energize the left flank? i also think sanders entry