The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Were not doing enough. Look at these five people. Heres the thing, john. There is a whole Cottage Industry of distraction folks. This is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. Im not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. The Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Special Counsel, Jeff Sessions fire series is one of them. There is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. I had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. One consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, Leadership Starts at the top. I asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration . Nobody, we dont know who the point person is, we dont know what their strategy is. This is somebody who is at a high level over there. This seemed to be a way of the whit
years betsy woodruff piece. over the years manafort s firm made millions of dollars by representing a rogue gallery of clients, dictators, guerrilla groups and desk pots with no regard for human rights massive amputation ands oversaw state sanctioned rape. the list of manafort s clients is a horror show long before you got to ukraine and russia. mubutu, incredible array. what is that, the fact that paul manafort liked to deal with strong men and donald trump seems to like to have some affinity for strong men. what does that tell you about some of the things that might bind them together? and, by the way, that wasn t a red light for donald trump. the thing, john, that i actually know a lot about here is ukraine. i went there three times when i was with the state department. ukraine in that era when manafort was there, was an incredibly corrupt place. so, yes, did he hide money from taxes? yes, because he was getting money in paper bags, millions of dollars from people. the thing tha