The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Giving this story way, way, way too much oxygen. Okay. The tweets that hes been doing brooke on mueller, on the witchhunt, on, you know, the democrats working for robert mueller, which is by the way not it is a red herring, that is not something the people working around the president on strategy are concerned with. This crossed the line. Specifically on the piece regarding getting dirt on a political opponent, this to you. The president saying its politics, everyone does it but federal law makes it a crime for any person to solicit accept a contribution for a u. S. Political campaign or for the purpose of influencing any action for federal office. What is the trump Tower Meeting peter against the law even though as they say they didnt actually get anything on her, the fact that that was the
intent. I would say they are all, everyone who participated in that meeting has a great deal of legality jeopardy. And certainly in t
seriously. we have been prends for 20 years. they are all over the map. they have to be seen in totality and in context. have you give all of your text messages to anybody? if you believe you are being hurt by context, roger, why don t you offer up all the proof you have that shows that context gives you the benefit of doubt? have you offered them up. i assure you, the federal investigators have all of my text messages, all of my e-mails, and all of my phone calls. the real question is how do they justify having them in 2016 as the new york times has reported on january 20th, 2017, that they were looking at. right. what was the probable cause for looking at them then. have you asked them? that was many month many months before the appointment of mr. mutualer. have you asked the investigators? we have not. okay. we have not. another issue i want to give you a chance to deal with is the messages between you and steve bannon. yes. you said i didn t speak to a
brought related to that meeting. so this yeah but hillary did it too is not going to get mueller off the track. how about, peter, just one more to you. one of the key witnesses at the center of that meeting and so many others was this woman, hope hicks, who was just getting on board air force one over the weekend which has a lot of people scratching their heads. you know, she doesn t work there anywhere. is the president at risk of witness tampering with her here? you know, i m sure her lawyer would have preferred her not to have that contact. but my guess is that hope hicks has been interviewed. i know she s been interviewed on the hill. and i strongly suspect and by mutualer. that mueller has already interviewed her. yes. so he may feel ultimately that her testimony is locked in. okay. it s going to be very hard at this point for her to change her
shape public opinion insofar as whatever the investigation might conclude is concerned. and it looks like he will have the support of republicans on capitol hill despite whatever it is that robert mueller ultimately comes out with. ashley parker, how important is it for this president to get a wider cover from more maybe mainstream republicans? i was a at press conference a couple days ago where these 12 kind of people on the right i would say led by, you know, the usual sts, mark meadows and jim jordan calling for a second special down is he will to investigate the investigators. but so far many member in the senate are saying okay we need mutualer to finish up his job, the special counsel is not necessary. the ig report is enough. is the president going to be able to successfully muddy these waters. that s the strategy that he is using here, right? that s absolutely the strategy he is using here. he has been public with it. he said when he rolled out the term spygate he said
congressman, there were a dozen or so plus, more than a dozen republicans yesterday who signed on the a resolution to appoint a second serb counsel to investigate the investigators. do they represent the entirety of the republican conference? no, i think they represent 12 people. i think that we are a lot of folks. would you characterize them as a fringe? i would say that there are not people any more conservative or any more hawkish on pushing back against this investigation. so you use your term i ll use my description. but sure. do you think they are in the mainstream? no. i don t think so. i think that most republican i don t want i believe that the majority of the conference, wants the investigation to proceed as it is, allow mutualer to issue his finding. if there is going to be further indictments let that occur. but this investigating the