Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Jay sekulow on abc yesterday. Would that meeting constitute a violation of the law . And what you have is a situation and ive said this well over a year. You have to look at what laws, rules and Regulation Statutes are purportedly violated here. Hes been saying that for well over a year. Well over a year ago, he said the opposite about that meeting in trump tower. Remember, it was all about adoptions. I didnt hear anybody talk about babies this weekend. And there are some potentially relevant laws. For example, u. S. Code of federal regulations. Quote, a Foreign National shall not directly or indirectly make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value or expressly or impliedly promise to make a contribution or a donation in connection with any federal, state or local election. And, quote, no person shall knowingly solicit accept or
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At one point, he says its gods orders, kate. All right. So much more to learn. Scott, thank you so much for being on the ground. Really appreciate it. Thank you all so much for joining me today. Inside politics with john king starts right now. Thank you, kate. And welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Thank you for sharing your day with us. The president s new response to the Special Counsel is more political threat than legal strategy. Shut things down, team trump tells Robert Mueller, or become a Midterm Election issue. Plus, how alexandria ocasiocortez turns a stunning primary upset. And look to the stars. Is that the battlefield of tomorrow . The Trump Administration moves ahead with its plans for a new space force. The latenight comics say thank you. The United States space force. Were not entirely sure what we do. Do we fight aliens or . I have no clue. Just shut up until we get the spaceship. Spaceship . We begin with the russia investigation. A Team Trump Legal strategy tha
answer questions, i should say. that s not new. but they still have a client, the president, who is arguing that he wants to answer questions. the flip side is they have a special counsel who really wants the president to answer questions. so they ve been going through this dance for months now. proposal, counterproposal, the mueller team wants to ask a broad range of questions, the trump team keeps wanting to narrow it in. so they don t have a choice, really, but to answer the questions or excuse me, but to negotiate about answering questions. so while they re doing that, they have to try to find bright sides. it has been true, and i know you re hearing this from republicans as i am, that politically speaking, they ve been surprised at the fact that the russia investigation isn t as much of a drag with regard to the base, and maybe even some independents, as they thought. maybe it could be a help. so he s trying to look on the bright side. it definitely is and was a moment of candor
stealing voter information to the extent to which that conspiracy could be added to. we have a potential conspiracy crime. we have potential obstruction of justice because we have stuff that was covered up. we have a potential perjury charge. so there s a broad range of wrongdoing here. the real question is, what are we going to do about it. jeck sekulow said is there a crime. well, we re answering the question. i think yes. and then what s going to happen about it? is the american public going to tolerate this? we ve got this level of wrongdoing at the highest echelons of the office, which quo to the heart of our democracy, and people haare shrugging and i think it s dangerous to continue on this path. why would the president be doing this? if it s about popularity and his base or the media? the russia investigation isn t winning trump any votes and it s not losing trump any votes. people feel the way they feel about it. but at the very least what he did this weekend over twitter
nixon clip, imagine a scenario tonight where president trump says exactly those words but just substituting it, the so-called russia investigation. i m also just curious in that hypothetical what kind of reception he would get even from his own colleagues. would they really be standing up to give him applause? that s a good point, but the so-called russia investigation isn t going to cross his lips, as far as we know it s not a so-called russia investigation, it actually is a very involved russia investigation. his favorite line is there has been no collusion. i m sure it s not written into the speech but that s the one ad lib line i ll be looking for. it s ve what else is very different than in the nixon and the clinton scandal, there was no twitter then. the entire landscape of how to communicate with voters is completely different now, which means you don t need to use a state of the union in the same way that you used to need to use