did do anything specific? alex, i interpret this like a poorly written hardy boys mystery novel by an 11 year old who just learn to write stories. this is like keystone cop, terrible planning by what i would say are some of the most inept criminals in the world. in terms of their planning, you are talking about these backdoor meetings and going through tunnels with flashlights to try to point out security cameras. listen, no, this is not necessarily a smoking gun. i will acknowledge that as a former prosecutor, but what i can tell you is that when you re putting together the circumstantial evidence that you have, the actual details of certain conversations, you are able to establish the minimum threshold for what he has to jack smith, that, is due in front of a jury to prove intent. and that is if there was an intent to erase the actual data on these video cameras. that is the issue, and that is what jack smith has to prove and establish.
saying he s disappointed in john bolton, as tensions between those with current and past ties with the president appeared to boil over. here now hogan gidley, good to have you here this evening. with regard to john bolton and rudy giuliani, i heard mayor giuliani say john bolton doesn t have a good understanding of the work he was doing in ukraine and he doesn t understand the connection of ukraine to the origins of collusion in 2016. is that the white house take, that john bolton doesn t understand the investigation here? i haven t had a direct conversation with president trump about john bolton or any conversations that fiona hill talk to democrats in the least secret hearings and backdoor meetings that she had the last couple of days. what i can tell you is that conversations the president and i have about this center around a much broader problem, that is
posting a series of tweets critical of the mexican government while celebrating a notorious drug trafficker. she has not commented since publication of the rolling stone article. cnn has reached out to her. their communication continued over the course of the next three years even after the 2014 arrest of el chapo that landed him here at this penitentiary. they stayed in touch via blackberry and letters. it was that relationship that eventually led to the meeting between sean penn and the notorious drug lord. it was a month of backdoor meetings, encrypted messages, disposable phones and clandestine operations with el chapo s associates. in a two-minute clip, el chapo talks candidly about drug trafficking, violence and his role in it all.
but you won t get away. the video that has everyone talking on this american morning. good morning. it s wednesday, august 3rd. this is american morning. a lot going on today. we should get right to it. yes, we should. isn t the debt deal done? it s not done yet. they have to do the super committee. and decide what they will cut, cut food inspectors, education grants, they are going to cut stuff out of education. at least some of it is done? some of it done. one of the bitter and dangerous debates this recent history is now history. the bill to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending is law. this is a picture of president obama, he signed the bill in private. nobody around him. notice that. he doesn t look very happy either, does he? he called the compromise a first step toward fixing the economy, though, and argued more must be done. this is, however, just the first step. this compromise requires that both parties work together on a larger plan to cut t
nobody knows what would happen. i don t believe anybody in the world believes the united states will default on our debt. nobody believes that. but given what is going on in europe, something could spook the market. and missing august 2 could spook the market. then you could have a real catastrophe. nobody wants that to happen. but i ll say this. as dangerous as that, that may be, i still think this is the time to do this. making the tough decisions today not kicking the can down the road is the right thing to do for the country. bret: do you believe, you have been in these backdoor meetings and you have seen what the president said publicly. do you believe he is being honest broker? i think the president is trying, trying to get there. but their inanalysis stance on us raising taxes is continuing to prevent us from getting this done. and his willingness to do as