listen i heard maybe simone wants to work on his campaign. there you go. maybe i will. i saw on the senate floor, the beginning of his senate primary campaign against on the floor of the senate, you saw the beginning of his presidential run there. ryan, the issue that jeff flake is saying is like, they reported this out months ago from committee, this protect the special counsel bill. yeah. and mcconnell said you don t need to do it, he s fine. and then this happened with president trump, firing sessions and putting in matthew whitaker, who is very critical as acting attorney general. so they really feel like they need to protect him. and this shows who was serious about protecting the mueller investigation, and who wasn t, right? the truth is, a lot of republicans up on the hill warned president trump from taking any rash action. they warned him against firing sessions, they certainly warned him against firing mueller. and lo and behold, he takes an action that i
shep? shepard: peter doocy on verdict watch. first let s turn to jeffrey kramer former federal prosecutor, assistant u.s. attorney now managing director at the global consulting firm berkeley research group. good to see you. good afternoon. shepard: say what you want about these witnesses. i have heard it said repeatedly this is a document case. would you agree? it is mostly a document case with some witnesses sprinkled, in certainly mr. gates, to give a little life to the documents. because these are a lot of numbers, some complicated transactions. you really do need a guide. planned gates was the guide. shepard: when you look at the evidence as presented, how do you see it? you know, this, as far as a prosecutor, and i probably tried 50 or so cases a loft them several months in length financials. this is a pretty straightforward case. it was quick. they had the documents they needed. they had a cooperator who had a plea agreement. who wasn t the most truthful person back
we are following multiple breaking stories including officials in the briefing room earlier this afternoon warning about russia s continued attempts to weaken and divide the united states ahead of the upcoming mid term elections. our political and legal experts are here to discuss. what do you make of the show of force at the white house? it was most noticeable by who wasn t there which is the president of the united states who doesn t seem to believe this is a problem at all. the senate republicans, too, just voted down $250 million for security for the election. so there does seem to be a very substantial divide within the republican party about whether this is a problem at all. certainly, those of us who care about the integrity of our elections were encouraged by the show of force, but there is something about it that rings pretty hollow when the president
along with lobbyists and aides were wounded. before the game, they throughout the first pitches. not only were they they are, but so was steve scalise, got a standing ovation and started at second base. last year s game was about who wasn t here. this year s game is about who was. always expect the unexpected and baseball command there is no exception to that rule intimates game. you can t make this stuff up. on the game s first pitch, democratic leadoff hitter raul rees of california had a sharp counter to scalise at second. scalise fielded it cleanly and nailed louise at first. democratic ohio congressman tim ryan sliding pete rose tile into homebrewed little league inside-the-park home run. california democrat getting into not one but two arguments with the empire. first ever catcher s interference, vends saying she was hit by pitch. she lost both arguments.
as the president continues to call this a witch hunt, you ve got paul manafort s son-in-law, who is pleading guilty as of friday. you have the skadden arps lawyer in jail. as far as leading guilty, you want to go mike flynn or george papadopoulos? nothing to do with russian collusion, any of the indictments. even the russian indictments, they indicted companies that didn t exist. the lawyer is picking them apart, saying you didn t follow federal rules and procedures. i think what rod rosenstein rosenstein. excuse me. rosenstein. i hope he s not upset. i think americans need to know how many of these informants were planted. i don t believe, and maybe i m wrong, there was only one. i think they probably tried multiple. if they were worried there was a russian intelligence operation going into the campaign, i m sure they didn t just try this guy, who wasn t successful at it. i think we should know that. i don t think there is a