roger stone. so, steve, how do you see all of this connecting? well, the manhattan madam part admittedly might be a bit out of my expertise. but i think the hard thing that mueller has to do here and of course he s uniquely qualified, as is his team, is move from all these pieces of information, many of which have significant counterintelligence implications. what are key people doing. where is money moving. what are the connections back to russia. what malfeasance is going on. in moving from simply counterintelligence stuff, which is basically common sense suspicions and following patterns to a legal case where you can actually begin convicting people and saying, okay, the laws were broken here. i think common sensically, everybody can look back and say, look, there was a lot of no good stuff going on here. but turning that into a legal case is something that s a bit tougher. i do think, you know, for
federal prosecutor is really going to depend on a series of factors that we don t have access to right now. i will say that when you re dealing with large quantities of money moving, you re always interested in the story behind the money. like why is this money moving from point a to point b? what are the understandings of and transactional understandings that lead to these flows of money. and those stories line up, or don t line up, against criminal statutes, and that s what you have an investigation for. i still, honestly, as was said earlier, i still don t feel like i understand what the story behind these transactions is. yeah. how does avenatti know all this? so this is an interesting question. he s declined to reveal his sources. much of this information looks like the type of information
with him. let s go to mark preston who joine joins us now from washington. cain ducked the topic during a speech last noit. do we expect him to say anything today? we do. this is something that will dog him along the campaign trail, don. something he has been battling for several weeks. several women come out and allege that he sexually harassed them during his tenure at the national restaurant association and now we have this new woman, ginger white coming out saying that she had an inappropriate relationship with mr. cain for 13 years. she spoke out about it on a local atlanta television station, as we all know, a couple days ago.addressed it th morning, again, on good morning america. do you believe that mr. cain is fit to be president or should he end his campaign? in my opinion, no, i do not. i honestly do not think that he is, in my opinion, would make a good president as far as i m concerned. my views are different than his views, but at the end of the day, thi
welcome back to hardball . president obama is taking heat from members of his own party plans to cut funding for community block grants and heating assistance for the poor. why is it okay to give tax cuts to the wealthy but scale back money to programs that work. chris cizzilla, ander roll lewis are here. er roll, we haven t had you on for a while, cizzilla has been on more recently, so i m going to go to you. everybody understands what stimulus is, when the government spends money, they spend the money, the guy it is corner store, the money gets multiplied, and gets the money moving, especially people who live beyond the edge in terms of economic. vastly stimulative. rich people, when they get a tax break, they sock it away, in whatever accounts they ve got.
work for the actual people, for the people who vote for these elected members. it the does work very well for the campaign contributors. in griftopia, you paint this incredibly aamusing but incredibly scary portrait, which is your specialty, of politics essentially as culture war entertainment. politics as sort of a reality show that s just about keeping people sort of divided, red and blue, selling products, and keeping money moving, but really the governing happens offstage. if that s true, then how much say do we have even nominally in the big, important governing stuff, like regulation of the economy? well, not a whole lot. i mean, that s kind of the point i was trying to make in the book. obviously, there are places where the people have a say in important issues. health care is one. but there are an awful lot of issues where i don t think it s a coincidence that a lot of the issues that the candidates from