manafort believes he was being treated like a vip. what can you tell us about his time in jail so far? that s right. this is what comes from a new filing from mueller s team, essentially saying, look, they can monitor paul manafort s calls while he s in jail. he apparently told one of his associates he feels like he s being treated like a vip in his living area. he has a private bathroom. he has a private shower. he has his own telephone. he also has a separate work space. mueller s team also points out that paul manafort has access to a laptop. they gave him an extension cord. he s also able to send e-mails. mueller s team says he s been sending more e-mails than he s allowed to thanks to a work-around, using a second computer thanks to his lawyer. he doesn t even have to wear a prison jumpsuit while in jail. manafort s legal team did not take to this kindly today. they issued their own sharply worded response in which they point out the special counsel doesn t seem to take a minute
only nonjury trials. the dnc had to have considered this before they filed it. they must think they have a work-around. greg, the democrats are suing wikileaks and julian assange for revealing how the dnc rigged the democratic primaries. let me just go back. i want to get this quote correct. this is from wikileaks. they tweeted this out friday. the democrats are suing wikileaks and julian assange for revealing how the dnc rigged the democratic primaries. help us counter sue. we ve never lost a publishing case and discovery is going to be amazing fun. how do you view this lawsuit playing out? in some ways it s still going to be tied to the mueller investigation. if the mueller investigation does draw some links of conspiracy with russia, then this case can playoff that and could bring out double the amount of embarrassing information that comes out. if you don t get that, it seems
for it, that is the pattern. it is that the administration does something, is criticized for it and he reacts and either undoes tr t or veers off in a different direction. we are in a period where this is happening nearly daly, and the national security council blinked after the president said i want to bring the troops home from syria and the white house sent out a statement saying we are not bringing our troops home from syria. and we ll discuss the wall in a minute. but now jim mattis has given him a weird work-around. we ll let you build a wall on a military base we have there. that was like seriously. is he going to buy that? okay. but michael, back to the tariff issue, when does paul ryan or mitch mcconnell roar? kentucky burron. you are funny connell seems to
responsibility of any government official to protect the citizens and if a law is interfering with the protection of citizens, it s clearly a bad law, if not something that should just be thrown off the books. well it s not only a bad law in this case, it s unconstitutional to prevent law enforcement officers from appropriately communicating with the right federal authorities. david: so why are you following an unconstitutional law? well for right now, what we re doing is the sheriff has a work-around but the challenge that we re in is our deputies are the working men and women and the last thing i need for officer smith is to have them suspended. we ve chosen to file a lawsuit, and join the federal government so we can clear this up and not put these people in the pickle they re already in. david: i always like to bring it back to the real world and there was a very real world example of how dangerous all of
announce. jordan? thanks. treasury secretary mnuchin said this weekend that there might be some kind of work-around for a supreme court ruling that said line-item vetoes are unconstitutional. is that something that he proposes that congress will take care of? the president was very frustrated with the legislation he was given. it was a massive spending bill handed to him at the 11th hour. spending by congress has not been executed properly since 1996. they haven t had individual spending bills for over two decades, this omnibus process the president wants reform. he s talked about ending the filibuster. he s talked about a line-item veto. obviously it has to pass constitutional muster. he wants to fix the budget process. his message to leaders in congress of both parties if something similar happens again,