For months. His longtime lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. And we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of Foreign Governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the Trump Campaigns various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet with three Different Campaign aides starting the summer before the election. And now the president , his lawyer, and his allies in congress are trying to use that incriminating fact in a kind of weird jujitsu move to discredit the investigation itself. Just a few weeks ago, the president warned us this moment might come. Ive taken the position, and i dont have to take this position, and maybe ill change, that i will not be involved with is the Justice Department. I have decided that i wont be involved. I may change my mind at some point, because whats going on is a disgrace. And hour Justice Department, which try and stay away from, but at some point, i wont. There. You go. At some point i wont. And that point seems to have arrived. The president tweeting yesterday, i hereby demand and will do so officially tomorrow. The department of justice look into whether or not the fbi doj infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for political purposes and if any such demands or requests were made by people in the obama administration. For now, the Justice Department has asked its Inspector General to review the issue instead of opening a fullblown criminal investigation. Rosenstein saying in a carefully worded statement, quote, if anyone did infiltrate or surveil participants in a president ial campaign for inappropriate purposes, key wording there, we need to know about it and take appropriate action. But this is not over, no, no,
no, no. Far from it. The president and his allies are going to keep escalating until they meet hard resistance or until they succeed in derailing the mueller probe. Theyve already signaled they wont accept the Inspector Generals findings. It will not be enough to have Rod Rosenstein and others of the department of justice investigate themselves. We got enough investigations where the Justice Department is investigating themselves. More than almost anything weve discussed in the past, this is a basis to appoint a Second Special counsel. For weeks the president s congressional allies led by House Intelligence chairman devin nunes have been pushing to expose the fbis confidential source over the strenuous objections of the Justice Department. Today with the president s backing, they won what could be another major concession. According to the white house it was agreed that Chief Of Staff john kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the fbi, doj and dni together with congressional leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested. Joining me now is the National Security reporter for the waste
post for more on what happened in the meeting with the president and Justice Department officials. What do we know what happened in that meeting today . I think one point about what happened in the meeting today is President Trump personally wanted these guy theres to answer these questions. I think thats particularly significant. So what happened . Rod rosenstein, chris wray, Dan Coates Go Over to the white house there is some talk about this document request. Congress has been beating the drum for the Justice Department to turn over documents about this confidential source who brushed up against the Trump Campaign, as part of the Russia Investigation. They come to an agreement, which is pretty surprising. The Justice Department had seemed to draw a red line over turning over documents about this source. But the agreement doesnt exactly make them do that. They agree to come back for another meet which john kelly will apparently spearhead, and theyll provide information to some lawmakers, i guess, about this source that does seem to be the Justice Department going a little farther than maybe they
otherwise would have. But they have briefed lawmakers in the past. So maybe this is the department sort of playing bureaucratic, just making a bureaucratic move to get the white house off its back, fleece temporarily. That is how its being widely interpreted, i think. To circle back to the first point you make. This is the president of the United States whose own campaign is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation. Its well established. Weve known that for over a year. Summoning two of the people supervising that investigation to intervene in that investigation in the white house, right . Its really interesting. Look, the president is the chief executive. The Justice Department is a part of the executive branch. So hes got to meet with these guys. But in this context, its pretty weird. He is meeting with them a day after he has essentially ordered an investigation of the investigation of his campaign. Thats pretty weird. And its also fairly unusual for the president to have any kind of interaction about
specific investigations. Even if it didnt have to be the president , right . In terms of my understanding of the protocol, if barack obama were to summon the head of the fbi and the Attorney General of the white house to talk about the robert menendez, bob menendez investigation, democratic senator, that would be viewed as highly unusual, correct . Yeah. So there are protocols in the Justice Department. While the Justice Department is part of the executive branch, the president exerts his authority over it usually on big policy questions, you know, on immigration, on our policy for charging all sorts of suspects, getting involved in individual investigations is sort of frowned upon. If he thought there was great fraud or waste and abuse at the Justice Department, sure, i guess you would want the president to get involved. But when it touches him, that makes it pretty unique. And others would point out, look, there isnt quite the evidence to back up the charge that he is making, at least not yet about this informant. He is saying, well, this guy was embedded in my campaign and spied on my campaign. We dont quite see the evidence
for that yet. So he is asking for an investigation of the investigation of him, and does he even really have the predicate to do that . I think those are two interesting points. Right. Investigations cant be launched for no reason. They have to have a factual predicate. One more point that seems worth noting here, i just wanted to see where you are on this, we understand nbcs reporting the fbi did warn the president in 2016 that summer that the russians were trying to infiltrate his campaign. This is not the idea that were concerned there are people trying to get to you was not kept from him as far as we understand. Sure. Now that said, i do think there are some interesting questions that still have to be answered about this source, how the fbi used him, what the fbi directed him to do. But i would also say that the fbi using confidential sources, thats what they do when theyre running investigations. Thats a lot less intrusive than put aguirre up on somebody or kicking in the door to somebodys house. This is what they do. While i agree that i would love to know more information about this guy, this is the fbi does. And it doesnt necessarily mean there is anything untoward what they did. Washington post matt zabatosky. Im joined by chris murphy of connecticut. Lots of talk about words like constitutional crisis and things like that and saturday night massacre. Where are we today after what the president did today . Were getting really close. I worry that the Justice Department is starting to become complicit in the erosion of our democracy. They very clearly buckled here. Whether its to save individuals jobs, we dont know. But listen, the president is not to be afforded under the constitution any greater protection from investigation or prosecution than you or i, if there was an investigation occurring into either of us, and we had not been charged, We Couldnt Go to the fbi or to the Law Enforcement agency that was in charge of that investigation and ask for information about their sources and methods and information because that would be helpful to us in covering up
our tracks, as it will potentially be to the president as he starts to get information about a pending investigation into his wrongdoing. So im very worried about what happened today. Clearly the Justice Department still has to go through this internal investigation, but the very fact that they are beginning to crack greatly worries me. The president saying this about handing over documents, to your point. If fbi or doj was infiltrating a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, thats a really big deal. Only release or review documents the House Intelligence committee, or the senate judiciaries can give conclusive answers. Drain the swamp. Do you fear the president is trying to get the documents for his own defense . First of all a, there is absolutely no credible evidence that the allegations the president is making is true. So if the precedent gets set that the president can make a wild allegation and thus becomes and thus the department of justice is required to give him and all of his Friends Evidence and information about their investigation, then there is no
evidence. The president will get everything. And ultimately, be much more successful in stymieing the investigation. I really worry that once this precedent gets set, wh once the Justice Department starts to share investigatory information, well never be able to stop it. Youre up for reelection this year, arent you, senator murphy . I am. You were nominated a few days ago in the convention there in connecticut. What happens if the president tweets i demand the doj investigate chris murphy . Right. Listen, thats why there is a reference, there has been this very clear separation between the president and his Justice Department. And democracy starts to crumble when the executive can start to use his Enforcement Agency for political reasons. And if he can demand that they change an investigation into himself and into his friends, whats to stop him from using that power of the justice
department to come after the rest of us . So, again, there are really important walls being torn down today between the president of the United States and the Justice Department. And once they get torn down, i worry that you cant put them back up again. One of your colleagues, republican colleagues southern cornyn, he is the Number Two Senate republican, had this to say. I think the Special Counsel needs to wrap things up as soon as he can consistent with accomplishing the job he has been given. I would think so that he would finish before the midterm, saying millers team should avoid what happened with the clinton probe. This seems to be an emerging consens consensus, more and more republicans calling for this to wrap up. Mueller has to go until he has found the truth. And the fact of the matter is, as he continues to get more guilty pleas, as he continues to get more individuals close to the president who are willing to cooperate with him, he is likely finding new avenues of investigation that he has to pursue. So i think mueller has to
continue this investigation into it reaches its logical end. I understand republicans want it to go away. I understand the president wants to it go away as more of his friends are being rolled up. But thats not the job that he was given by Deputy Attorney general rosenstein. His job was to find out whether there was any collusion between the president and the russian government. And i have a feeling he is not close to the end. I want to ask you also before i let you go, ten americans, ten people murdered on friday with a gun in a school three months or so after parkland. This is an issue that you have been incredibly forthright on and focused on. Is congress any closer to doing anything now than in the days after the Parkland Massacre . I think a shooter could walk into a school and kill 100 people and republicans wouldnt bring a debate on gun violence before the house of representatives or the senate. I think republicans have made it very clear that they have no intention to debate the issue of
gun violence in the senate or the house before the mid terms because they dont want to expose their members to votes that would make them very unpopular as they head to the polls. What i do know is that congresss silence is giving an effective green light to these shooters. I really do believe that these troubled young men who are contemplating acts of violence have noticed that the highest levels of government have offer nod meaningful condemnation to the acts of previous shooters, and in their minds that pervert that silence into permission. So i do believe that there is blood on all of our hands if we dont step forward and pass meaningful legislation to try to stop this. These are copycat killings, and these killers are taking some very strange and unintentional signal from our silence. Senator chris murphy, thanks for your time tonight. Thanks. All right. Here to break down what all the of the days news, Nancy Gertner and paul butler, a former
federal prosecutor. Ive seen debate in legal circles about rosensteins reaction from the president s demand to this action. I want to get your reaction. Paul, ill start with you. What do you think of kind of saying yes but shunting it over to the ig in a punt . The president has ignored all of the ethical and procedural guidelines of the department and hereby demands an investigation . I know Rod Rosenstein. He knows better than this. This is not how the system is supposed to work. So in the worst case scenario, Rod Rosenstein is being played by President Trump just like President Trump played him to get him to write that memo justifying the firing of james comey. The best case is that hes trying to appease the president to avoid a saturday night massacre. But chris, you cant apiece a
tyrant. You cant mollify a despot. All you do is embolden him. Nancy, what do you think . Well, i think he is trying to do by indirection what he knows and has been told he shouldnt do by direction. In other words, what he wants to do is fire rosenstein. What he wants to do is fire mueller. So i think what he is doing is setting up trip wires, you know, that if you dont do this, then that provides the justification to take action against ros rosenste rosenstein. I agree with paul that its unfortunate that rosenstein complied, although it is a sort of halfbaked compliance, as you said at the top of the hour that looking for inappropriate influences through an informant rather than appropriate inferences. So its a little bit of a weasel, and sending it to the ig is also not having not distorting the department of justice to do this kind of investigation. But it really is sort of
manipulating it by indirection and accomplishing the same task. Again, im not a lawyer. Im following this very closely and talking to a lot of people both sort of anonymously and who work in government. I think were watching the president rattle the cage. And its a question about whether its going to break at this point. Paul, you worked in the public corruption unit, right . I did. I worked with Rod Rosenstein. And again, thats why i understand that he gets it. You know, he said that the department of justice will not be extorted. Today we got pretty close. And the concern, chris is Rod Rosenstein and bob mueller are all we have to ensure that the rule of law continues in the United States. Rod, please protect us. Save us from the despot you are working for. Nancy . When you step back from this, again, you have to sort of keep on thinking about what the usual response should have been. So if there was a concern that people that he has described as lesser functionaries in his campaign, he didnt know carter page, he didnt Know Papadopoulos very much, if that were true, then why shouldnt this matter . Why wouldnt you say yee gee, lets goat to the bottom of this that some peripheral character was talking to the russians and im glad you got to the bottom of this. Thats not the way he is doing this and he is creating more smoke. Yes, this is not about National Security or the integrity of our justice system. This is about the president s criminal defense. Rudy giuliani said today that any secret documents that are turned over to congress, the president s defense team should also get them. Again, thats unconscionable. Its impossible to imagine this happening in any other administration except the Trump Administration. I just feel like the red line here, nancy, is very clear to me. If it is the case the president of the United States can order,
can hereby demand the department of justice, the fbi to open investigations with no factual predicate, even with a factual predicate, he shouldnt be initiating it, but without anything just because he watched a knocks news segment, thats it. Thats the whole ball game. The president could go out tomorrow and say there are six democrats running for senate in the reelection in red states, and i want investigations on joe donnelly and Claire Mccaskill and every other one. And then weve got essentially a nonfunctional rule of law. Well, no, if you remember, a couple of years ago during the obama administration, there was a great brouhaha, appropriate, about whether the irs was manipulating its investigations for political purpose. Yes. Investigating not for profits. This is so much more than that. The president can say i think you should look into this. The president , as any citizen can, refer something to the doj for investigation. This criminality came to my attention and therefore you should look at it. But what he cant do is direct
them to investigation. He directs them to consider, brings it to their attention. Yeah. Frames The Outer Limits of what he is interested in. But he cant say you must investigate. The other thing is his language is so chilling. My department of justice . Mr. President , its not your department of justice. His pray torrian guard. Nancy gertner and paul butler, great to have you both. Next, should anybody believe Rudy Giuliani when he claims what Robert Mueller tells him . Another source blows up that Rudy Giuliani claim in two minutes. Feel the clarity of nondrowsy claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. Like those from buddy. Because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. Feel the clarity. And live claritin clear. Im your phone,istle text alert. Stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hidenseek. Cold. Warmer. Warmer. Ah boiling. Jackpot. And if youve got cutrate car insurance, you could be picking up these charges yourself. So get allstate, where agents help keep you protected from mayhem. Like me. Mayhem is everywhere. Are you in good hands . Legal blog the law and joyce vance is a former legal prosecutor and professor. Ill start with you, ellie. Robert s. Mueller shared his timeline over negotiations whether mr. Trump will be questioned by investigators, adding mr. Muellers office said the date, which is september 1 according to this reporting was contingent on mr. Trump sitting for questioning. Do you buy it . Its sad where we live in the world where we have to treat these fever dreams as if theyre possible realities, right . Giuliani is trying to force a timeline on this thing as if were playing basketball, but its not basketball, its baseball. Right. Youre going to have to get seven men out before this is over. The investigation will be over when the investigation is over and not a moment before. What do you think, joyce . I tend to agree. I think its unfortunate that we weve reached a point in this
investigation where when Rudy Giuliani comes forward and claims that he is channeling what the Mueller Investigation is going to do, we have to qualify that as that by saying giuliani says, because over and over he has been proven to be wrong. In this case, this investigation will be done when bob mueller has decided who to indict, who not to indict and what to include in his report. And it wont be any time before that. And yet the strategy here to me is clear. Ty cobb who has been fired. And was actually good at his job. Ty cobbs whole thing was look, were cooperating because the president didnt do anything wrong. Obviously we dont love being investigating, bev but we want to wrap it up. Were cooperating. This is Giuliani On Offense Against Mueller and he is trying to sabotage and jam him up. Saturday night live literally got it right this weekend when giulianis strategy seems to be even if we did obstruct justice, even if we did collude with russia, so what. That seems to be the strategy right now. No matter what happens, so what because the president magically
makes everything okay. He is contending the president cant be subpoenaed. Experts bash giuliani claim mueller cant subpoena trump. There are a few outliers, but most people seem to think that yes, Robert Mueller can subpoena the president. You know, he likely can be subpoenaed. And even aside if that technical legal question, chris, what giuliani is doing is running the strategy that defendants who are guilty run. He is trying the investigators, trying to prosecutors. Hes using technical legal arguments you cant subpoena me as opposed i have done nothing wrong. And over time this increasingly gives the impression there is something to hide, and that that something is serious and significant. There is also this thing he is doing we want to cooperate, but. Things just keep coming up. Well cooperate but first we have to learn more about this informant. This most recent informant red herring, right . Im sure many crime bosses would love to know who the snitch, right . But it kind of doesnt work that
way. Look, if trump wants to know what information they have on him, if he gets indicted, thats when he will be entitled to discovery, and not a moment before. The critical thing, though, and i totally agree with Professor Butler in your last segment, the critical thing is at what point will the Justice Department itself, will the institutions themselves start to stand up to trump as opposed to their current posture, which is rosenstein tends to roll over on his belly, roll over on his back and show trump his belly and say please dont hurt me, im so innocuous. At some point the institutions have to stand up and tell these trump people no, you cant visit, just because you asked for it. What do you think of, that joyce . So i disagree that Deputy Attorney general rosenstein is rolling over and showing the white house his belly. I think that he and chris wray, the director of the fbi are trying to walk a very narrow tightrope. Its a difficult time to be in the Justice Department. I dont think that we can make
any pretense that it isnt. They are trying to permit a very important investigation to continue while at the same time upholding the traditions of the Justice Department. The issue that theyll ultimately have to confront is how far those traditions can bend before they break. Its not an easy job, but its two fine men trying to do the right thing in a difficult time. And i think were already broken. I think the part where the institution have broken are behind us. And now we need to be in the phase where we have to figure out what to do now that theyre gone. And how were going to fight now that trump has, as you put it in your last segment, crossed every red line imaginable. The question becomes what he does next, right . If this is a sort of incentive for sorry, incentive for him to keep going with ask and what that next ask might be. Joyce vance and eli mystal, thank you. Previously not reported, but
a Second Trump Tower Leaning in which a Foreign Government was looking to trade help for favors. This time the quid pro quo is right in front of our face, apparently, next. Prevagen is the number one selling brainhealth supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. Zamel. It certainly got the president s attention yesterday when he quoted the times piece was a, quote, long and boring story. Ryan goodman, general counsel from the department of defendant and coeditor of the chief of the just Security Blog which is a great read you should be checking out. And jonathan chafe. There are a couple of implications to it. The first one would be this is another indication of a campaign violation. Youre not supposed to take any support from a foreign national. And the New York Times report says that don jr. Responded approvingly. So everybody at that meetings got a serious legal issue if the reporting is correct. The second item is that erik prince actually testified to congress and seemed to omit this particular meeting. We could call that a concealment of a material fact. In other words, its a federal violation. Its a perjury if in fact the meeting took place and he decided to not Tell Congress than an instead to Tell Congress
another story about a lack of connections to the campaign. Yeah, in fact this is questioning with congressman rooney. He says to erik prince, aside from writing these papers, donating supporting. A yard sign in my yard. There was no other formal communications with the campaign . Correct thinking would seem to debev lie that. It would seem to directly belie it. And i think erik prince is in deep trouble because he also interviewed with muellers team, and mueller knows everything about this meeting. Jonathan, you wrote about this story and you wrote about what you think it triggered in donald trump. I want to read a great line. Trump has no poker face, no chill. The closer the investigation gets to incriminating evidence, the more intensely he rages. He resembles a suspect at a Crime Scene Screaming at the police not to go into the attic. Now that attic is meaning awfully interesting. What do you mean . This aspect of the Mueller Investigation is the most mysterious, even to though of us who have been following it pretty closely from the beginning. We dont really know what the gulf angle means. We dont really know what relationship these figures had
with russia and how important it was. We know about the Seychelles Meeting there are some internations that they had some financial role in possibly transferring some of the money around, but its pretty mysterious and the fact that donald trump responded to vehemently, first on twit. And also with this extraordinary demand that you discuss to have had department of justice suggests that he is really upset, really worried about this in particular. So maybe there really is a lot in this room. We should note, right, one of the arguments that the president tried to make in that tweet and other defenders, there is no collusion with russia, but there is tremendous overlap two. Of the people in the meeting are erik prince and George Neighborhooder who is a bizarre figure who has a Child Pornography Plea that he plead to in the United States and a Child Molestation Charge in prague who is a fixer for various sort of strange interests in the middle east. Its george nader who show up
the transition with the head of the United Arab Emirates and its george nader that shows up in the Seychelles Meeting with erik prince in this very mysterious meeting. Right. There seems to be quite a bit of potential overlap. I dont think its disconnected from the russia collusion story, and it makes sense as to why mueller has spoken with mr. Nader, apparently seven times, seven times, including four times mr. Nader has appeared before a grand jury. I think that there is a lot of overlap in the very fact that mueller himself is interested in naders connection to the seychelles and the seychelles based on the washington posts reporting is trying to set up back channel between erik prince as the surrogate for the Trump Campaign and the russians. So why are they trying to set up back channel . Theyre actually going to be the administration unless there is something a little more nefarious going on. When you take a step back, one other thing emerges is the America First campaign has Michael Flynn working as an unregistered Foreign Agent for the erdogan government in turkey writing an oped on their and a
half on election day. Paul manafort working for the campaign declared an agent for russian and ukrainian interests, and then a whole bunch of other foreign interests thinking they could essentially bribe the campaign . Get what they want out of going to them . Yeah, absolutely. The irony here of like you say of the ultranationalist, the demonization of foreigners and the refusal to work with them in normal rationale ways that help them as well as helping them, the demonization of treaties and International Institutions and agreements not to mention the fact that donald trump promised to get rid of not anyone working for his administration, and then going to work as a foreign lobbyist. Even the fact that he would be a president. And then subsequently go lobby for a Foreign Government was scandalizing to donald trump the candidate. But now people have been working for donald trump while simultaneously working for foreign interests in one capacity or another. The irony is really staggering. The question that hangs over all this to me is a lot of Foreign Governments appear to think these are easily bribable
folks. Whether theyre right or not is sort of the question. But everyones acting, the more we learn, they think that. They do. And i think they have good reason to think that. According to the New York Times report, after this august 3rd meeting, the Trump Campaign embraced mr. Nader and they met frequently with Jared Kushner and Michael Flynn. I will note one thing. The president broke with tradition by making saudi arabia, of all places as his first trip as setting president. It was year ago that he posed in front of the orb. How did that meeting come about . Why did he break with tradition and go to saudi arabia first . We may learn more than as we learn moring these meetings. Thanks for joining us. Thank you. A Campaign Message to take back government and its all about donald trump and corruption. Plus, bill gates returns to the show in tonights thing 1, thing 2, next. Little things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not an injection or a cream. Its a pill that treats differently. For psoriasis, 75 clearer skin is achievable with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. And for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pain. And the otezla Prescribing Information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. Dont use if youre allergic to otezla. Otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. Tell your doctor if these occur. Otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. Tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or if these feelings develop. Some people taking otezla reported weight loss. Your doctor should monitor your weight and may stop treatment. Other side effects include Upper Respiratory Tract Infection and headache. Tell your doctor about all the medicines you take and if youre pregnant or planning to be. Otezla. Show more of you. Which is why i use armor tall ultra shine wash wipes. Y. They effectively remove dirt, dust and grime with no water. That car is in tip top shape we are both in tip top shape
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you. You have been doing a lot of reporting on the ground in special elections with people working to get Democrats Elected and volunteers, and theres been some th kiis kind of idea that Cable News Talks about the Russia Investigation but on the ground theyre talking about health care. I wonder where you think this Corruption Message fits into that. So my sense is that, well, part of the confusion is or part of the difficulty is these have been kind of unique districts often. Often districts with strong republican lean. So youre trying to convince people who might be republicans but dislike trump why they should come over. So its been less in the places ive been about how this administration is so appalling than sort of relying on peoples underlying disaffection and also on the fact you have these cadres of hyperengaged women in general who, you know, you dont need to tell them why trump is despicable, its what they think about from the time they wake up to the time they go to bed. You have to message that. The candidates can talk about stuff that is super specific to their districts. At least thats what ive seen. What do you think, jason . Well, i think that you cant just address the problem. Its interesting whats happening here. The democrats arent saying were going to tell people that the Trump Administration is corrupt. People know that. What the democrats are saying here is theyre saying were going to put our money where our mouth is, weve got ideas on what to do about it. And thats a pretty important distinction. And awful these other policy issues, whether youre talking about health care or anything else, people look at these debates and they see for instance on the tax bill that President Trump is getting a bunch of money for himself. They see what Sheldon Adelson is doing. People can see that corruption is at the heart of this. And what this is is theyre saying we have some ideas about what to do about it. Frankly, as democrats people like me, weve been talking about ideas like this for a long time. Weve wanted to do them. And President Trump just he is an illustration. He is a personal demonstration of why this is needed and that presents an opportunity to get some positive things done like make it easier to vote for
eligible voters, do something about the problem with money and politics. That sort of thing. Adam serwer i thought had a really smart piece in the atlantic where he said there is only one trump scandal. Thats what unites it all. The thing with the Russia Investigation where theyre essentially trying to benefit themselves by possibly clueding with a foreign entity and the tax cut where both the president , his family, and the republican donor class are benefiting from the policies, is that theyre trying to get theirs at your expense. And people are always really down on the Democratic Party and talking about how theyre doing it wrong but i think this is a pretty smart frame for exactly that reason, because rather than having to explain a bunch of extraordinary complex interlocking scandals you can kind of put this one umbrella and then also target individual congresspeople. Because theres going to be all these districts and different congresspeople are implicated in this kind of unprecedented corruption in different ways. Yeah. And i think it also relates back, you just said this, jason, to the big signature domestic
policy accomplishment of the Republican Congress, which is independent from trump, which is the tax cut, which is hundreds of billions of dollars to the richest people in society. Yeah. Everybody gets that whats happening here is that President Trump and the republicans are just trying to get theirs. Thats not something we need to convince people of. I used otell my soldiers when i was a Platoon Trainer in officer candidate school, i would say dont just come to me with a problem unless youre also coming to me way solution. This is not democrats around the country you know, ive been in 40 states campaigning for democrats since President Trump took office. And what i see candidates doing is not just saying, boy, isnt trump and the Republican Congress bad, theyre saying heres what we would do instead. And thats really important in any situation. Dont just say what the problem is. Everybody knows what the problem is. Say what you would do differently. And thats what this is. Theres a Supreme Court decision today that made me think of, this right . Theres a 54 decision with gorsuch, right . Gorsuch, the seat was held open for gorsuch, he wrote the opinion basically saying its fine for employers to make you
waive your right to sue as a sort of condition of your employment. Basically what it is. And i want to connect that to theres a milliondollar mystery gift to the inaugural fund, right . To the Trump Inaugural Fund that turns out to have been from a conservative legal group. And its like when you start looking at the quid and the quo everywhere you start seeing it everywhere. Oh, yeah. And in some cases its blatant selfenrichment. Its not just that trump protects his friends and cronies, he also protects himself from hes somebody whos been sued many, many times. Of course. By his own employees. Right. And this is where the point of the spears jason, in terms of what the republicans broader than trump are doing right now. We have seen a real concerted effort on behalf of the republican donor class to get what they can get before the cops show up at the scene. Yeah, thats right. They know that theres an Expiration Date on this deal or they at least strongly suspect it. What we have to do is deliver on the Expiration Date, on them controlling government up and down in every direction, and the surest way to do that is its not enough for people to say look, if you just change the party in Power Everything will be different. People know that thats not necessarily the case in every situation. And frankly, democrats in the past i think have made the mistake of saying just the other side is bad and not heres what were going to do differently. This is concrete stuff. This is here are some changes to government that we want to make that its not just a response to President Trump, it uses President Trump as the example of whats wrong but it says these are changes that desperately need to be made and people know that if we dont actually try to do them theyre going to know we werent being real with them. And i think youll see well take the house and i think take the senate too very possibly and then try to do these things. Michelle goldberg and jason kander, thank you both for being with me. We have two podcasts. You can listen to this show all in as a podcast. And make sure to check out our
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