written answers. he submitted those written answers before he was aware that mueller s team knew that manafort was lying. so whatever information manafort was sharing with trump potentially the circumstances have dramatically changed in the intervening weeks. remember, sara, to you, this cooperation only came after manafort was found guilty on a number of counts and then the president praised him as a good man, et cetera, after he was found guilty. so the suggest that some have made that perhaps there could have been, you know, a move by manafort to essentially fake cooperation with mueller s team, inform the president, hope for a pardon and in the interview with the washington post last night the president would not go on the record when asked about a potential pardon for manafort. that s as good a theory as any because why, if you are paul manafort, and you had vowed you were going to fight this investigation, you were going to fight this investigation would you then say, never m
with the evolving denials and claims by the saudi government. but more than two weeks into the controversy, something seems to be changing with trump now expressing the slightest doubt about the saudi story. trump told the washington post last night, quote, there has been deception and there has been lies. but in that same interview, trump returned to form, defending the saudis, calling them an incredible ally and also defending saudi crown prince whose denial of any knowledge of khashoggi s killing is believed by almost no one connected to trump. nobody has told me he s responsible. nobody has told me he s not responsible. we haven t reached that point. i would love if he wasn t responsible. joining me now are two journalists. i want to go to you on this first. donald trump has really gone out of his way to believe mohamed
explanation that he was killed after, get this, he got into a fist fight with more than a dozen men in and a bone saw. trump initially told reporters on friday that he found that explanation to be credible. but in an interview with the washington post last night he said, quote, obviously there s been deception and there s been lies. joining me now, jennifer reuben, opinion writer for the washington post. rob ryan ner who einer and tiff. let me play one more republican talking about the saudis. this is senator bob corker who let s listen to bob corker talking about how the saudis should be punished for the khashoggi killing. everybody can say what they wish, but it s just not a credible story for somebody to walk in, 15 other people, and get into a fist fight and lose their life. sanctions are a blunt
be resigning as the top national op-ed in the post, if this was on the up and up, why would economic advisor in the white prince apparently lie about it? house. and i don t know if you were watching the cabinet meeting and more to the point, why were earlier today, nicolle, but i there so many meet wgz russians was so struck by how president trump talked about how flexible trying to establish contacts outside the purview of u.s. this plan would be, how he would be able to add countries or drop intelligence? that s the million dollar countries or shift the number on question. phil rucker is back with us to the countries based on how he help us try to answer it. feels about that country at that phil rucker, it seems to me if you re about to be the president moment. and it s just, you know, and the president s national businesses like to have certain tiff. security advisor what are they like to have they like jared s title is, you can walk to know what these tariffs are in the front doo
chief of staff john kelly in a white house meeting monday, first reported by the washington post last night. the fbi defended the bureau s handling of classified material obtained through surveillance. quote, the fbi takes seriously its obligations to the fisa court and its compliance with procedures overseen by career professionals in the department of justice and the fbi. but the white house so far is as unmoved as paul ryan was when he rebuffed pleas from wray and rosenstein to protect classified material. as far as the memo goes, the memo came over. we ve got our folks in the national security lawyers in the white house that work for me, work for the president. they re slicing and dicing it, looking at it so we know what it means, what it understands. did you see it? i did. what do you think? it will be released pretty quick and the whole world can see t. the whole word can see it.