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that s the combining of the denial with the collusion is not a crime narrative. the president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. you see it in all the tweets. now it is roaring back because of the thursday night bombshell that the president s own former lawyer and fixer cohen is claiming despite all the denials, the president did know about the russia trump tower meeting in advance. when that report drop, you know what happens next, they picked it up and whipped it around and began running with it again. it s hard to see the point of all of this hysteria. what would the crime be? it is not illegal to talk to foreigners. nobody is claiming that any information changed hands. even if did it, so what? i don t think it is bad if campaigns are turning to foreign governments for dirt. it s not collusion. it is not something that s impeachable. as they today? hacking. donald trump famously doesn t pay his own contractors and his own long time lawyers? even ....
meeting. that trump s own son took it explicitly being promised damaging information on clinton and then the times gave the actual information. the meeting, if it is what you say, i love it. if you did that, you might need a wider defense than denial. in october came the multiple denials. october 30, the special counsel announcing the indictments against paul manafort who goes on trial tomorrow, plus his deputy, campaign manager rick gates. mueller also announced guilty pleas of george papadopoulos who admitted contacts with who? russian nationals. who he thought were tied to the russian government. who offered him what? yes. information about the possible release of hillary clinton s e-mails. so following those indictments we then saw allies of the president including now and this is key, the president s own lawyers, picking up the argument like go pro camera, collusion is it went away for a few months. the president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. ....
So i think most certainly he will be charged. his charges will false statements relating to his conversations with roger stone about wikileaks, and so it could also be that we see charges against roger stone in the near future. and then of course, down the road there s certainly lots that he knows that has not yet been revealed publicly. we have seen in the documents involving michael flynn and michael cohen that they ve both shared information core to the investigation. so i think that that could either yield more indictments or information contained in that report. tom dupree, somebody who our viewers here at msnbc as well as fox news know pretty well, had something interesting to say this morning on this network, and i want to play it. i think 2019 is going to bring a whole host of new legal battles for this administration. we obviously know the mueller investigation is moving ahead. we know that there are different pieces of this, the cohen piece and other pieces. of course we ....
Aspect. the president says he s not concerned about impeachment. he said the people would revolt. but our sources say something different. would say that the president is, you know, reaching out to friends, to allies. he feels like he has on capitol hill. venting about the situation he feels he s in, the pressure he s under. and also, you know, asking questions about impeachment and complaining why nobody s doing anything to help him out of this. in the process of that, expressing concern this is something that could gain traction. and part of the issue for the president and the people around him is they don t know what else is coming. we ve seen that just in the last week. we saw first the cohen piece and now the ami piece. they don t know what else is happening. in our reporting, we learned that one of the things that the president s allies feel is he really needs to hold on to those establishment republicans. the people that he ran against in 2016 in the primary. the system that h ....
what does it suggest that he s worried about? you mentioned the cohen piece. follow me here for a second. giuliani introduced the notion of this preceding meeting to that june 9 meeting. that was not out there before. today on one of his many interviews, he said that one of the people at that meeting was rick gates. rick gates is the star cooperating witness in the paul manafort trial set to begin tomorrow. and before a trial, the government has to provide every prior statement of any of their witnesses. so now manafort s attorneys have rick gates prior statements, all of his interview with mueller and the team. what sticks out to me is that gates was at that meeting and it would not surprise me, this is pure conjecture and there may be limitations on whether manafort s lawyers can disclose ....