number of spies into the trump campaign as early as december. december of 2015. reporter: that fox report came after the far right website gate way pundit seized on a twitter user who took a photo of the text to claim the fbi was unite using foreign agents against trump. a cnn review of the text messages between the officials show no evidence to back up the claim that the russia investigation started in december 2015. the texts in question are not even new. the same text messages had been sitting on it shines a light on how trump seizes on conspiracy theories to further his political arguments, like when he falsely claimed barack obama wasn t born in the united states. to his latest, leveling unsubstantiated charges that spies have been placed in his campaign to help hillary
because if he can t, if he can t, and if he wasn t born in this country, which is a real possibility, if he doesn t, it s one of the greatest scams in the history of politics. and remember, he asked for the college records too on top of that. finally, september of 2016, trump said this. president barack obama was born in the united states, period. yet he reportedly still clings to that birther lie today, and there is so much more, much, much more. they re bringing drugs. they re bringing crime. they re rapists. donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. i don t know david duke. i don t believe i ve ever met him. i m pretty sure i didn t meet him, and i just don t know anything about him. you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.
decapitated head? no one is defending the comments. they are inappropriate. that is the point he was making. following the backlash over the claim she was ambien tweeting. clarifying it was an explanation. not an excuse. in a later tweet, she said i m not a racist. i never was and i never will be. roseanne s ex-husband spoke out on cnn last night. she was so into the conspiracy stuff with donald trump and how far gone she was and the pizza gate and hillary is a pedophile and obama wasn t born here. the birther. and how crazy that was. i just knew that this would not end well. roseanne s on-screen husband, john goodman shrugged it off. he said i wasn t going to get an emmy anyway. this year marks a decade since the financial crisis.
investigation, right? it s a theory that s been talked about a lot, and he says that james clapper said there was a spy who was spying on an fbi informant who was spying on the campaign. jim clapper said the opposite, he said there was a spy to spy on the russians. if the russians were trying to infiltrate our campaign, wouldn t we want to know about that? so there is a lot muddying the waters here and the more i talk to strategists and operatives on a national level, on a state level, the more they say the voters aren t moving on this, that people have moved to their corners. think of how many conspiracy theories he has spread. barack obama wasn t born here. barack obama had wire tapped him. he had tapes of his conversations with james comey.
said during a meeting in january 2017 with mrs. trump, and her husband, jared kushner who is also a senior adviser to the president, the couple offered her a deal for her organization. stop providing abortions in exchange for receiving an increase in federal money. mr. trump acknowledged a few weeks later that he had pushed for such an agreement. so this isn t to matt s point, i hear him, maybe they haven t thought this through, the unintended consequences, they seem to have thought through the request. certainly. i recently interviewed cecilia for my show and she talked about the meeting and extrapolated on what that was like to meet ivanka and jared in the beginning where there was a moment we thought they would be a moderating influence on this administration. that wasn t born out true. but essentially what she said was kushner was trying to make a deal without understanding the underlying policy and how it would impact women. she felt like she wanted to explain exactly what plann