may be more people to come, is the president has to get back on track.k. he has to honor the promises that he made during the campaign. he has to get a legislative agenda passed by 2018, the start of the new year, otherwise we re going to be consumed next year with the midterm elections. it will be every man and woman for themselves and they re going to be running for the hills. the president needs a staff t around him, that s congenial, and believe me, it s possible, it happens. i worked with two presidents and the staffs had disagreements but they were in the room and once that disagreement was over, and a consensus was had, policy was made and that s what we have to do. you also have to make sure the president understands that you make policy in washington but you sell it on main street. tucker: for sure. i think he already sold it on main street, though. that s what that campaign was about. he ran out a bunch of different things that everybody in d.c.pa hated but the public kin
home and hillary clinton administration. indeed, he was one of the rare republicans there and the only, or one of the very few, populist conservatives. that s strange, since populist conservatism is the platform his boss ran on. like trumpet candidate, bannon was willing to criticize big republican donors in their ideological stranglehold in a corrupt g.o.p. establishment. he s able to break with orthodoxy and big and dramatic ways con for higher taxes, better infrastructure, fewer pointless wars around the world, and more. he understood that the country s greatest crisis isn t robert e lee statues but the steady economic and moral decline of its once robust middle-class. not surprisingly, traders on wall street cheered when he got fired this afternoon. the dow shut up 100 points on the news. lobbyists in washington will be celebrating late into the night. the funny thing is, that in some important ways, steve bannon was more traditionally liberal than the liberals who spent the last
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of the house judiciary committee. congressman, let me start with you. do you think michael cohen is credible? i do. and if michael cohen is telling the truth, it means there s at least three felonies in what he s about to say. first, donald trump conspired with a foreign power to influence the election. second, donald trump went ahead and lied about the meeting, which could be potential obstruction of justice. and third, trump junior lied to congress when he said his father did not know about this meeting. we re way beyond not normalizing what shouldn t be normalized. these are potential criminal felonies. that s why the robert mueller investigation needs to proceed without any more political interference. you know, there was always a striking thing that happened on the house side, the house intelligence committee in your investigation into these matters, which it sort of said, well, we wrapped
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what the government is saying is that that is not really true. rights, and there is a lot of shuffling. so together, sort of shuffling the numbers, and when it was convenient, they reported income, and it didn t when it wasn t, he said he was making rental income on some of his properties. that was good because it could lessen his taxes, but when he wanted to get along, that wasn t the case anymore because he was able to get more money in loans with a private property instead of a rental. so he just short sort of shuffe numbers around a little bit. but it is a dense trial. there is a lot of paperwork. dana: another thing that was very intriguing that you tweeted earlier today. something regarding the russians or the oligarchs that you are not allowed to use. the oligarchs and manafort, what is that? i think it is very interesting. at two elements that will not be
trial. dana: you were on yesterday, right after the administration p
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the united nations taking on donald trump s attacks on the free press. the top story, the closing circle of pressure on trump from the manafort trial. michael avenatti has popped back up with a dvd, doing some breaking news of his own on who is in possession of it. do you have anything else you can tell me about this dvd? as soon as we get it back from law enforcement, i ll be happy to talk about it. that is new. the assertion that law enforcement are sufficiently interested in this dvd collected as evidence. we do not know, and this is important, if avenatti is alleging it s in the possession of federal law enforcement, which could mean mueller or cohen prosecutors in new york, or whether it is some other local case which could be far less important. meanwhile, the other news tonight is that mueller has completed interviews with another new roger stone associate, her name i