Dropping. When you realize how big and how much of an effort now that the fbi is taking on in trying to sort of disrupt some of this. The American Public has to have confidence in the Voting Process in this country, josh campbell, and you say seeing all of those intel chiefs was a great step. Absolutely. We heard a lot of specifics here today. But theres also there symbolic effort which is so important for the American People to see. This united front. Seeing the intelligence chiefs standing there and telling the American People we take this threat seriously. Those of us who cover the Intelligence Community know they take it seriously but the public has to hear it. There are too many challenges they are focusing on. Physical infrastructure security, the voting systems, ensuring confidence in those systems. But then also countering these foreign influence Operation Sway her can y herculean task. Even if no vote is changed, if
foreign adversaries can persuade the American People that their vote wasnt counted it will sow that kind of chaos that we saw in 2016. This is a great step today. But, its great to see these intel chiefs and hear them come out and say from that podium the threat is real. Adjudicati juxtapose that from Sarah Huckabee sanders and the president its almost like you have two foreign policies and trump trumps his own administration. Think back to helsinki and what the president said or didnt say. It seems incongruous to what we just heard. Thats why this is so important. Weve seen mixed messages from the white house and the president himself. People are going to now look at that and then try to compare that to having these intelligence chiefs who spent their lives in Public Service working on these important issues standing there having the fbi director call out frush the podium of the white house and
say they are a threat. Again that continued confidence that the public needs to know. Even if the white house will play politics with the issue they can find confidence in the Intelligence Community taking it seriously. Gentlemen, thank you so much. With me now, the former Attorney General under president george h. W. Bush and the dean at Belmont College of law and author of true faith and allegiance. A pleasure to have you on, sir. Welcome. Thank you. So seeing all those intelligence chiefs standing up there, despite what the president may say, do you see this as a Turning Point in efforts to battle Election Interference . Well, let me be clear and i think to reassure your viewers, the Intelligence Community has been working diligently, even before this Press Conference in addressing this challenge by russia. This has been a very important
challenge to the united states, to our system of government, to our way of life and so theyve been on the case, and i regret the fact its taken so long for them to have this Press Conference but im very confident that this is something that theyve been focused on for quite some time. I think part of the challenge we have here is we have the president who is not precise in terms of describing what he refers to when he talks about a witchhunt. I would like to think hes only referring to this notion, this investigation that he somehow cooperated with russia in connection with the 2016 election, and that hes not referring to the actual investigation by the mueller team into russian meddling. Its the second thing which is vvery important and which i think today members of the Intelligence Community highlighting to American People they are focused on it and working against. You see it as the president not being precise. You, sir, with all of your experience inside of an
administration, what do you make of this obvious divide between the president and his intelligence chiefs and due agree that its playing into precisely what Vladimir Putin wants . Well i think confusion and chaos and uncertainty and perhaps even fear is something that putin is driving towards and i think that in many ways hes achieving that. The divide, again, may relate solely to the fabricate that President Trump is focused on whether or not this investigation is focused on collusion between the campaign and the russian government and for whatever reason he refuses to acknowledge the fact that a very important component of the Mueller Investigation is into Election Meddling by russia. Sit second part which i think is vitally important and which is high liked today. Stay with me sir, i have so much for you just about the president s attacks on his own
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it starts out in the park, in my johnsonville commercial, and a family is grilling Johnsonville Brats. One of the kids asks, where are Johnsonville Brats made . And the mom says, Johnsonville Brats are Made In The Usa. All of a sudden, the Fire Department storms in, yelling, Johnsonville Brats are Made In The Usa the teachers come. The mayor comes. You wont believe it lady liberty shows up. Shes going, Johnsonville Brats are Made In The Usa were back. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Special counsel Robert Muelleris offering the president a compromise. Mueller suggesting he would cut the number of obstruction of justice questions. He wants the president to answer those questions in person. The president s lawyers offered written answers to obstruction questions. The Trump Legal Team wanted the sit down interview limited to things that happened before he took office mainly related to the Collusion Piece of muellers probe. This is happening just one day after the president said his Attorney General should the end russia investigation. So back with me former Attorney General alberto gonzales. And so mr. Attorney general the president s tweet from yesterday. The white house says whoa, whoa, that was an opinion, not an order to the ag, that trump wrote the word should and not must. Do you think it crossed a line . Im not sure that it did given the past statements by the president. Everyone knows thats the president s opinion and he would like to see this ended and everyone knows the president has ways to end this investigation
if he wanted to. One of the thing i worry about, quite honor festally, by the Contact Whining is it makes the president look weak the fact that he keeps saying this investigation should be over. Rod rosenstein should end it. Attorney general sessions should do something. The president is the head of the Executive Branch. All these individuals work within the Executive Branch as does the special counsel and to continue to complain about it, to me just makes the president look weak and its very unfortunate. I think as a general matter its unfortunate for the president to be speaking about his Attorney General in this way, to be speaking about any investigation. I think he needs to allow the investigation to move forward. And if he does that, bob mueller will end the investigation and it will be over and well all know, you know, exactly what happened in connection with the 2016 president ial election. Okay. So the president complaining and whining and we know he wants this thing to end. You were once the ag. Put yourself in Jeff Sessions shoes. You read the president s tweet. What do you do . Do you ignore the president . This is not the first time the president has made this kind of complaint against the Attorney General either directly or indirectly. Im assuming the first time it happened Jeff Sessions had a private conversation with the president. They reached some kind of understanding. Now Jeff Sessions is probably immune to it. As far as hes concerned hes carrying out the president s agenda and most critics and supporters of President Trump believe this is probably one of the most effective cabinet members in carrying out President Trumps agenda and so long as hes doing that Jeff Sessions is quite comfortable serving as the Attorney General and taking these barbs. Weve had somebody reporting this week the president is worried the democrats could take back the house depending which way the midterms go and in the the end president s fate will be determined not by Robert Mueller but by members of congress. So with that in mind here is the
president s attorney rudy giuliani. I have to say this, and i say this in my role not as a lawyer but as a concerned citizen and republican that this election is going to be about impeachment or no impeachment. Hes right. I mean is he correct that Anything Mueller finds will ultimately be up to congress to sort of jurors in congress . Well, i think there is a very serious question as to whether or not a president can even be prosecuted and thats certainly the position that the Department Of Justice as far as that i understand, and there are limits in terms of even with how far you can go. Thats why you see Robert Mueller negotiating trying to get an interview with the president , even if its limited. So at the end of the day i think what youre likely to see here is Robert Mueller coming up with findings and even though he may not be able to prosecute the president and believes the president engaged in wrongdoing
those findings will be provide to congress and then up to donetsk decide whether or not these crimes reach the level of impeachment. Giuliani also said trump would be walking in to a perjury trap speak of this potential interview with mueller, walking into a perry trap if he agrees to do this interview in person. What would suggest to you hearing that. Would that suggest his client thats something to hide or hes doing his job and has his clients back. It could mean the president has something to mean. I want could also mean the president is undisciplined and says things, you know, off the cuff you think and not thinking much about that. Hes worried about that because obviously bob mueller and his team have interviewed a lot of people in connection with russian meddling. And so President Trump may Say Something off the cuff. But, again, theres a serious question as to whether or not the president could even be indicted for perjury. But he, could, of course be
subject to impeachment if Robert Mueller finds possible perjury and defierce his findings to congress. Last question despite what were hearing from trumps attorneys he says essentially bring it on, he wants to do this interview with the mueller team. What do you think that is . Is this hubris . Is that naivete. A smoke screen . I dont know President Trump. Hes so different from the president i served. Im not in a position to answer that question. Who knows. Who knows is right. Alberto gonzales former u. S. Attorney general. Thank you for being on. Coming up next Paul Manaforts landscaper on the scanned today testifying about nearly half a Million Dollars he got from an offshore bank account. Details from this federal courthouse today. Ahead President Trump compares manafort to al capone. Theres quite a few similarities between the mob boss and trump himself. You might take something for your heart. Or joints. But do you take something for your brain. With an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in Clinical Trials to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Chicken thats right, chicken . candace new Chicken Creations from starkist. Buffalo Style Chicken in a pouch bold choice, charlie just tear, eat. Mmmmm. And go try all of my Chicken Creations chicken
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witness rick gates could testify we hear as early as tomorrow. Gates is manaforts long time business part and a deputy in the trump campaign. On the topic of manafort, why is President Trump using his name in the same sentence with notorious mobster al capone . Hes done it several times. Trump tweeting, looking back on history, who was treated worse, alfonso capone, Legendary Mob Boss Killer and Public Enemy Number One or Paul Manafort political operative and reagan Dole Arlington now serving Solitary Confinement although convicted of nothing. The fbi didnt think there was lining with Paul Manafort who really is a nice man. You look at whats going on with him. Its like al capone. Daily beast special columnist michael daly with me. Always a pleasure. Thanks. Why the heck do you think trump is comparing manafort to al capone . Thats a question i ask myself. Did you get an answer . Even though capone grew up about six blocks away from where manafort has his broken stone. Thats even crazy. Does trump know that . No. That cant be. I thought hes saying that manafort success treated worse than al capone. Right . Now to me, if i was manafort, i would be thinking hes telling me he can pardon me. This is a reason for me to pardon me. If manafort gets convicted before he starts singing to Anybody Trump can say this is terrible, hes being treated worse than al capone im going pardon him. Youre the second person in 24 hours who said the same thing. Something else came to me. You know, woodward, bob woodward the Washington Post kwauquote trump that power ultimately comes from. Trump says i dont want to say the word then he says fear. Al capone back in the day is quoted by his nephew as saying his organization was