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
aren t they going to realize or i assume they re going to realize if they haven t already that all the people who want to leave know how to do stuff. they re the people who have been running things and are educated and we ve seen them pass mubutu throughout haitian civil servants who have come into the country to help run the country after the belgians left. it doesn t work when your educated class leaves the country. well, that s that s exactly it. again, it s irony piled on top of irony. these are exactly the people that want to get out because they ve got alternatives. they ve got the means reasonably to get out or more difficult. and the stakes. i can t see anymore to explain that.
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
to remember part of this whole manturian, he s outside of moscow being pet by vladimir putin every day. this idea of what maybe mueller is trying to get at eventually is manafort obviously had very direct connections with the kremlin. he was working for all the proxies for the kremlin. not just for one or two years, but for ten, 15 years. and he was working against this thing that we are all for, which is ukraine being more western rather than eastern. henry kissinger famously said, ukraine russia with ukraine is a european power. russia without ukraine is an asian power. putin wants to be a european power. i raise my question with you again. i remember when manafort came on. i mentioned mobutu. you had marcos and others he represented. with trump you have erdogan, kim
to mmubutu of zaire for purely strategic reasons with no attempt to aid the country. there s aid for science, general public health and economic development. the reality is foreign aid programs have to be well designed, properly targeted, and well implemented, like any other effort in the real world, public or private. they must be monitored for corruption and unintended effects. but when these conditions apply, and they do in many, many cases, foreign aid has a big positive effect. and how much are we spending to get these benefits? americans guess that their government spends 25% of its annual budget on aid. how much should it be spending, they are asked. 10% is the answer. well, the reality is that the united states spends less than 1% of its budget on aid. that s $30 for every american. is this money a waste? if you add up all the money spent on health-related aid