Uranium deal. Gloria borger and evan perez are here withe the latest on their reporting. Gloria, what are you learning . Well, im learning from sources that it was President Donald Trump himself who wanted this gag order lifted and that the president then directed his senior staff to, what one source said to me was, facilitate the Justice Departments full cooperation with congress to lift the gag order. And these sources then said that the white House Counsel, don mcgahn, relayed the message to the Justice Department. And, as we all know, as you just stated, the gag order was lifted. Now, the Justice Department insists that the decision was made independently. But now we know that the president of the United States wanted it done. Why is the president so interested in the uranium deal . Well, hes interested in it as he called it, one of the biggest stories since watergate the other day. Hes interested in it because its his staff says because he wants to be transparent. But we all know
It’s no secret that government agencies give the Left more of a leash than the Right. Headline-grabbing stories over the past few years have exposed the overt political biases of agencies such as the FBI and the Justice Department.
searching on the dark web for russians who may have had clinton s 33,000 missing e-mails. to be clear, the idea that the data firm reached out to wikileaks alone, does not meet a crime at face value and we should note there have been no accusations of wrongdoing. anderson. joining our panel tonight is also josh green. josh, we talked yesterday, you actually wrote an article where you were basically embedded, i think with 12 days to go in the campaign, in the data operation of the trump campaign. and you saw that cambridge analytica people there. yeah. and i talked to some campaign officials with direct knowledge of cambridge analytica today and what they did in the campaign, and confirmed the reporting the sasha isenberg and i did in business week back in october. there were 13 people there as part of the cambridge team, they all reported to brad parscale, the campaign s digital director. they did three things, they basically did polling, they ran hundreds of thousands of surve
does anybody in the audience tonight know who this is? [inaudible] say that again? [inaudible] that s correct. that s admiral yamamoto, the commander in chief of the imperial japanese navy s combined fleet. and admiral yamamoto was a fascinating guy for those of you who don t know him. he lived in the united states twice during his naval career. he spoke pretty good accomplish. he attended harvard university briefly could you, could you elevate the microphone slightly? because it s very uneven, what s coming through. sure. is that better? this way? up. up. closer to your mouth. how s that, that better? okay. so as i said, he attended harvard briefly, he even read life magazine. so yamamoto had a pretty good understanding of america. he knew what japan was getting into when she declared war against the united states. and as he told the prime minister at the time, he told i can guarantee a tough fight for the first six months, but i have no confidence as
confident we will get it done and we will put america on the right track not just for next year, but for many years to come. all right. thank you very much, everybody. [ applause ] appreciate it. that was president obama at the white house speaking about the bush-era tax cuts. he reiterated he has a pen and ready to sign a bill to extend the bill for middle class. joining us is sasha isenberg. there we have a picture of you. before i go to you, i want to bring this into our panel in new york for one quick second. governor rendell we were speaking during the break not during the break, over the president and saying to each other, this is we were listening. we re multitaskers. this playbook is dog erred. we have seen this tactic before and it was the same strategy the president used during the payroll tax cut down to the use of, you know, facebook pleas, the twitter hash tag i have a