you ve got donald trump and his son-in-law jared kushner involving the kushner family. and you ve got sort of these kids, these second generations. and you have mike flynn, of course, and his son. so you have four families with two generations ensnared in a criminal investigation, criminal probe. i wonder sort of what kind of man subjects all those young people to something that could ruin their lives. first off, this is why we have nepotism laws in the country. none of these kids should be in any of these any of these positions. certainly not the president s children, number one. we do know this about hope hicks. i don t know whether she will lie for donald trump to the special counsel with criminal liabilities attached. she certainly was complicit in the lie to the american people that she was a party to crafting aboard air force one. she certainly didn t resign her seat. i think it bears mentioning how abnormal all of this is.
to the u.s. it was on that flight where the president crafted this statement with a phony story that fell apart i don t think it even took days. it was within hours the new york times came up with e-mails and don jr. ended up in a jiujitsu e-mailing them himself that he d already have proven to lie about the substance of the meetings. before the president got on air force one to leave germany, he had an unscheduled sidebar conversation with vladimir putin. his cover story was that they talked about russian adoption. so what are the chances these are all coincidences that donald trump told his advisers in the press that he and vladimir putin in an unscheduled sidebar conversation with only the russian translator present and then on a flight that he gets on hours later, he overrules some press staffers who thought transparency was a good approach so they weren t proven to be liars. he overrules them and dictates a
what we stand for, what we believe in, the defense of the inheritance that was given to us by generations who have sacrificed so much is coming to the line. and what you saw sean hannity doing, it s wrong in the most profound way. it s very, very wrong. it was pointed out to me that it s also dangerous. a former diplomat said he proceeded in that segment to put up the photographs of the entire mueller investigative team. men and women who have served this country who have made probably, you know, far less in government than they would have made in private practice. he put up all their pictures and all their names. but i want to show you the tweet that gets at what i was asking eli about whether this is a strategy being orchestrated from the presidency. donald trump tweeted this. after years of comey and with the phony and dishonest clinton investigation and more running the fbi, its reputation is in tatters, worst in history, but fear not. we ll bring it back to
hope hicks has never in the now well documented span of donald trump s political career been known to do anything other than carry out the boss directives. she is not known to free lance, and there are no reports of her acting on any consequential press matter without the president s approval. reporting at the time confirms that the crafting of the president s statement aboard air force one consumed the president s staff and divided his communications team. from the washington post on july 31st, quote, the strategy the advisers graed to be for donald trump jr. to release a statement to get ahead of the story. they wanted to be truthful so their account couldn t be repudiated later if the full details emerged. but within hours at the president s direction, the plan changed. flying home from germany on july 8th aboard air force one, trump personally dictated a statement in which trump jr. said he and the russian lawyer had primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian ch
the right thing. you have to say that there is zero tolerance. there was a response to the election of donald trump nepwhite house line is, we won the election so this was litigated. it was not litigated. as i said before, they lost the popular vote by 3 million votes and won the electoral college. that is always going to be a fact. and i think that millions of women all over the country marched in january, 22,000 have called emily s list to say i m going to run for office because they see donald trump in the white house and it disgusts them. i think that the millions of women in america who feel a sense of rage at the fact that a man can admit groping women on tape and be elected president of the country in which you live is going to put a lot of new women in the congress in 2018. so i think we re having a very important cultural conversation here about a couple of points. we re seeing varying degrees of sexual offenses, and they re all wrong. but there s a difference between harvey