helping and be part of what they re doing in their criminal acts to be part of a conspiracy? where is the line in terms of just bad behavior versus getting indicted? one of the reasons i ve used the term collusion rather than a conspiracy to violate sections such and such and such and such, the bar shouldn t be set so low as to what was a crime. it ought to be if the trump campaign was aware of what the russians were doing, highway preview of what the russians were doing, urged the russians to do it you had donald trump speaking publicly, hey, russians, if you re listening, hack hillary clinton s e-mails. you ll be richly rewarded. if that message had gotten to the candidate and the candidate is egging them on, whether it s a crime or not, it ought to be condemned by the whole country, democrats and rks alike. what does it take to prove a case or indict a case? there has to be a meeting of the minds between the campaign and the russians. okay, we re going to do this. there has to b
help donald trump, what s don junior s response? if it s what i think it is, i would love it. what does he think it is? does he think it is e-mails because papadopoulos was told the russians have it and they re prepared to disseminate it? it s certainly one very plausible explanation of what he was expecting. it would also explain why he was so deeply disappointed that what they produced at this meeting wasn t what was expected. shortly after that meeting when word goes out that have meeting that the trump campaign at the highest levels wants russian help but they re disappointed in what we produced at the meeting, within days of that, julian assange announces he has received stolen clinton e-mails that we now know he has gotten from the russians. so, it is significant. it s another piece of the puzzle. i think when i saw that indictment of the 13 russians and all its detail and whatnot, what leapt out at me is the same
anything that the fbi might have been finding out about him in their background report. general mcmaster was said to have been, quote, taken aback by what he learned about jared kushner s meeting with foreign officials that he took without notifying national security council that those meetings were happening. mcmaster reportedly had been briefed repeatedly on what foreign officials were saying back home about what their meetings with jared kushner were like. just as an aside here, one of the rationales for having anti-nechlt potism laws, anti-hiring your children laws, when you hire close relatives for important positions it creates weird power die nam beings when other senior officials come into conflict with a special white house official, somebody who is special because they re a presidential family member, what happens in that case of a conflict, especially if it s an
talked about that new information. it s not old information phrased in a different way. russia previewed for at least one person on the trump campaign that they were going to disseminate the stuff that they had stolen. that s exactly right. and it is significant because we know from the guilty plea and the statement of the papadopoulos defense that the russians said we have stolen clinton or dnc e-mails. we know from the fisa application and what the justice department allowed us to share that they previewed the disemmination. that s in april before the clinton campaign even knows the russians have those e-mails. a few weeks later when the president s son take this is meeting in trump tower with the russians with this lawyer sent out from moscow for the purpose with the promise of incriminating information about hillary clinton as part of the russian government s effort to