News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Well hear less from him on tax cuts and republican policies that might refer it makes a difference depending on the brand of republican running, especially if they are an incumbent. Desantis has been pro actsive aligning himself with trump. To put it mildly. So of course hes going to do that. On fox every night talking about it. Hes going to be somebody that thinks this is a great, great boost. There are a lot of republicans that are squeamish about the thing the president says that dont line up what they are doing and saying. Florida is a good experiment for this. I was covering the governors race. This is a great experiment. Look, i think in the general election, trump is more of a negative than he is a positive. I think he motivates democrats in a way they have not been motivated since barack obama came onto the National Scene in 2008. But, in the primary, he can
deliver nominations now as weve seen. Desantis aligning him
out, the original line was this was a meeting about u.s. adoption policy. now, officers cover politics laughed at that line because it was so i am plausible that don trump jr. had suddenly taken an interest in u.s./russia adoption policy and the heat of the campaign. but that was their line. you know, just one of many, many examples of saying things that are not true that they know aren t true and then they just move on. and now what, a year later we re talking about the fact that like, it s just all along it was a meeting about trying to get information about an opponent. not what you said in the first place, right? the big question for not just this issue but the entire trump administration is does that matter? and we ll see. the first kind of big test will be the midterm in november. yes, it will. up next, our reporters tell us the stories they are hearing from their sources, including rand paul s travel plans which are raising in eyebrows.
induced other federal employees to lie. agrieved unyielding and threatening president dominated the discussion, pushing into line his daughter and her husband hicks and raffel insisting the meeting at trump tower purely and simply about russia adoption policy. that s what was discussed, period. it was a realtime example of denial and cover-up. the persistent trump idea is it is not a crime to lie to the media was regarded by the legal team as at best reckless and in itself potentially actionable. explicit attempt to throw sand in the investigation s gears, the spokesperson for the trump legal team was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed, not to even answer his phone. later that week, he seen no good outcome and privately confided
receive the special counsel s close scrutiny with the relevant question being whether one or more federal employees had induced other federal employees to lie. agrieved unyielding and threatening president dominated the discussion, pushing into line his daughter and her husband hicks and raffel insisting the meeting at trump tower purely and simply about russia adoption policy. that s what was discussed, period. it was a realtime example of denial and cover-up. the persistent trump idea is it is not a crime to lie to the media was regarded by the legal team as at best reckless and in itself potentially actionable. explicit attempt to throw sand in the investigation s gears, the spokesperson for the trump legal team was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed, not
he called the book fire and fury not only phony but also sad. kaitlan collins at the white house. i think the white house juggling several controversies all of a sudden this morning. yeah. they certainly are, john and poppy. one of the key parts in that book that has caused so many headlines is one where the president, michael wolff claims, insisted on saying that trump tower meeting in the summer of 2016 with donald trump, jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, and the russian lawyer, was strictly about russian adoption. now the part in this book michael wolff writes the president insisted the meeting in trump tower was purely and simply about russia adoption policy. that s what was discussed, period, period. wolff goes on to say even though it was likely if not certain that the times had the incriminating e-mail chain, it was possible that jared and ivanka and the lawyers knew the times had the e-mail chain the president ordered no one should let on to the more problematic