A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. Is that the right message to take on trump . Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick joins us next. Plus, russia disconnect, as intelligence chiefs issue dire warnings. This threat is not going away. President trump continues to sew seeds of doubt. Were being hindered by the russian hoax, its a hoax. Is the president taking this threat seriously . Well talk to the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, ed royce in minutes. And house divided . The first lady sides with team lebron after the first daughter breaks with her father on the media. No, i do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people. How will the president handle the public pushback . Hello, im jake tapper where the state of our union is hitting the Campaign Trail after
visiting the site of a special house election in ohio last night. President trump is back at his report in bedminster, new jersey, and also hate tweet
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robert mueller investigation going on. this is the cia. department of defense has an investigation and treasury department financial crimes unit is also investigating the things that are going on. all right, then we ve got there are congressional investigations going on as well. the congressional committees investigating the ties, senate intelligence committee, house intelligence committee and government reform committee. finally we ve got state and local agencies that are investigating paul nmanafort specifically and new york attorney general has an investigation under way and manhattan district attorney, perhaps all of that pressure is working because bloomberg reports it was paul nmanafort wo tipped off about donald trump jr. s meeting who promised dirt on hillary clinton. and abc news reports congressional kmlts want to question senior vice president to the trump organize, rona
only doing lobbying for ukraine in europe, not in the states. which appears to just be trying to get down some of their concerns about how deep this went or how extensive it is. again, you can t really coerce people like that. that s the wrong thing to do. akoshding to the paperwork, the filing the people he tried to reach out to said, they we believe that paul nmanafort is trying to get us to perjure ourselves. right. talking about the truth when it comes from the white house or the president s legal team, you wrote today about the don jr. statement that initially misleading statement and what we learned from the memo to the special counsel and the general incoistencies. you write the latest examine many where on a number of key issues especially pegged to mueller s ongoing russia probe and trump s legal difficulties, the white house and president s lawyers havene ntradicting stories about faces often revealing the truth ly weeks later when confronted
have anything to do with the trump campaign or with russia collusion, it has to do with paul nmanafort s misdeeds years before the campaign but has opened up the prospect that rick gates, who was the key witness against paul nmanafort, that hi testimony was given also giving testimony to the special counsel for something against president trump and that a con vings against paul manafort will be used to squeeze manafort for his cooperation against the president. i think we re seeing a long term strat egy strategy, sort of widening of the appertour here. what was public about the conversation, at least the special counsel used this as a building block, not just a case about paul manafort s precampaign bad deeds. we ll see what happens when we get there. also we see how wrong they can be when they are saying this