Squeaky clean. There were complaints. Meredith vieira says he kept sex toys in his office. Hoda and savanna knew about thi this. And at msnbc, they said it was kind of a open secret. I know thats been a band phrase. Some of it was consensual but a lot of it was not. A lot of it was humiliating, degrading, harassment, borderline sexual assault. It looks like they have a problem because when you combine them spiking the Ronan Farrow Weinstein peace with them spiking the Juanita Broaddrick bill clinton peace and protecting matt lauer for all these years. And doesnt good for them and they made a half A Billion Dollars in profits every year and the ratings are great. People who were playing by the rules that got them where they were doing with the rules say this is a huge error. Dana what to think about the ronan farrow piece . Nbctoday show fixture and have a Harvey Weinstein story. Nbc said take it somewhere else. Its not a story want to do. It comes out in the new yorker and thats the sp
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Order is, territory now. And i wonder if theyve had a chance to explain to the president what you reported last week, that under this beefed up postenron witness tampering law, he may have more exposure than he understands. They seem to be leaning on a First Amendment defense, which is not going to hold up if your reporting holds up hes being scrutinized for the way these fit together. What Rudy Giuliani said today is this is ridiculous, the clip you played. The Idea Obstruction by tweet. He said it was bizarre and idiotic and there was nothing to it and the president can express his opinions. The thing about the president and obstruction and collusion, you know, interference or whatever you want to call it is the president usually focuses on the russia question. He says, this is a witch hunt. There was no collusion. He repeats that over and over again. The thing is that does the president rea
would says the impeachment is a two-step process. it s supposed to go to the senate and for the speaker to basically throw a wrench in the works and hold it up i think does raise suspicions that she is just playing politics and trying to milk the power that she has right now whatever leverage he has right now to influence the sun and how they conduct this trial. charles: it s got 30 seconds and i ve got to ask you about senator murkowski. she s not happy with the idea that mcconnell is saying we will work with the white house. any issues they are the public beneath the surface? i think senator mcconnell needs to be aware that there are going to be republicans in the carcass who don t want this sort of coordination with the white house. i think from mcconnell s perspective, he needs to do was right for the united states senate to be able to discharge its duty, to get the evidence, the information, and testimony that might need it but make sure they have all the information they need
between crack cocaine. why did that happen? why does it matter? when there is a dramatic departure like manafort s case from the sentencing guidelines it does raise suspicions. you have to look at it. this was a man who not only didn t cooperate, he lied after he was supposed to be cooperating. he tampered with witnesses. he deserved a high sentence. i want to ask about how catalytic the cases are. paul manafort pioneered doing business in washington, d.c. today with lobbying, the grotesquery involved in that. you have this as well. the parents who did what they did are causing a lot of colleges and parents and teams and coaches to look at practices as well. do you see things changing as a result of the two cases? i think they are catalytic in justifying what we talked about before. this is the big election next year will have as much to do with class as it does with race.
aides, he cleared of the attorney general who was jim comey s boss at that time, who tried to stick around. he didn t want the chief of staff ithat kind of conversatio. comey said in his autobiography he had only had two meetings with obama alone ever. one of them was before he was appointed and the other was during the discussion of all these racially charged shootings. and so it s it does raise suspicions and that s the one reason why presidents don t do it, because it does raise suspicions. why ask for that kind of chatter out there. you don t know what s happening in that room, and that s what people are going to talk about. obama ever clear the room for a one-on-one meeting with an american adversary? no. you need somebody in there precisely to be able to read out the meeting to the rest of our government and to our allies. and that was obama, not donald trump. our allies are wondering what happened in there, did he sell us out?