For the simple reason that these two countries, while they have an interest in overlapping interest in opposing us and creating a world that is safe for their autocracy and thuggery and corruption, et cetera, in the end they re more worried about each other. and document or no document, when the russians look south, they see a problem. and when the chinese look north, they see an opportunity. and you know, we could see this as a propaganda document. this is joining the propaganda together. but they re always going to be frenemies and because of the way i think about it is two mafia families. they could together, to sort of cooperate, to combine their criminal organizations, but in the end they can t trust each other and they don t trust each other. so we shouldn t ignore it but we shouldn t hype it up too much. because that is what it is meant to do. to hype up an alliance at its core is based around two men who want to make sure they keep their own power and make sure
One is surprised the first time, most of it is this litany of charges against him. what do you think are the most egregiously wrong charges? he s accused of things that happened after the revolution took place. there are a lot of things he s accused of that have been around for 150 years since the founding of the american colonies. there are some things like the bit about him taking people across the oceans for punishment, and when nobody was taken across any ocean at all. no american was taken across any ocean at all for punishment. so that s lot of padding. lawyer s padding. it s a propaganda document from a wartime. it s understandable by jefferson is trying to do that. however, the two key ones, the 17th charge about taxation and 22nd about parliament s veto rights over american legislation
King, only two of which he s guilty of. you re right. when you read the declaration, one is surprised the first time most of it is this litany of charges against him. what do you think are the most most egregiously wrong charges in the declaration of independence? there s a lot of expo facto revelations there, where he s accused of things that after the revolution took place. there are things he was accused from that had been around 150 years since the founding of the american colonies. there are some things like the bits about him taking people across the oceans for punishment when nobody was taken across any ocean at all, no american was taken across any ocean at all for punishment. so there s a lot of padding, lawyer s padding. it was a propaganda document from the wartime. it s perfectly understandable why jefferson was trying to do that. however, the two key ones, the 17th charge about taxation and
On the transition. one of the e-mails that was released by congress earlier today which we wrote about shows that rob goldstone sent essentially a propaganda document to rhona gragt. gragt is president trump s longtime personal assistan. she was helping manage what got in front of him, what meetings he had during the transition. goldstone sent this propaganda document to gragt in november after election day. she saw it and thought it was important enough that she passed it along to bannon and asked him what they should do with it. bannon didn t reply to her e-mail in the documents that have been released. but what this shows is that the russians were able get their propaganda, very opposed to the mag newtski act sanctions the russians were able the get that propaganda into the hands of influential and powerful people in trump s inner circle. clint, you have had a chance to look at these documents.
that s right. he s doing. which he does normally and which we ve sort of gotten used to. if you take all of these things together, he knows from his joint defense agreement with his lawyers what questions are being asked people close to him. he knows that the investigation is starting to close in on him. what do you make of the dutch lawyer? i mean, a lot of people thought this was strange. strange for a number of reasons. it s extraordinary to indict a lawyer. he seems someone ancillary. the lies that were told were about this kind of propaganda document that skadden arps put together to protect a client of manafort s that they worked on. what do you make of it. the key piece is a september of 2016 conversation with an unidentified person in that information. one of the things he lied about according to the charging document. right. if you notice that information