The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Tr review the changing narrative on this famous sitdown meeting. First, dont forget the initial line was, there was no meeting, right . Remember, it took place back in june of 2016. Not a peep about this. And then take a look at this from donald trump jr. So don jr. , this is nine months after it happened, quoting him, did i meet with people that were russian . Im sure, im sure i did, but none that were set up. And certainly none that i was representing the campaign in any way, shape or form. That was then. Then in july of last year, the New York Times broke this story. And the story became that, yes, there was a meeting, but it was on russian adoptions or more accurately sanctions. Very soon after the trump team was then forced to fess up that the meeting was actually to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, and then the public was told, okay, yes, there was this meeting, but no dirt on Hillary Clinton actually came from it. Don j
the legal definition of conspiracy and other episodes haven t been dealt with in his sentencing and charging thus far. why you saw the judge last week at his sentence say collusion is the subject of a different investigation which is ongoing. is it possible that there is a sealed indictment about paul manafort conspiring with the russians? it s possible. we have no idea. what s interesting is we re all talking about the mueller report landing. what we ll be looking at is the next huge political fight which is what is bill barr, the attorney general s discretion. what kind of executive privilege and redactions can the white house legal team claim and make. when would the public ever see any of this. will the justice department follow those policies they say they are going to, which is in making decisions on declaration they will not tell us information about people not under indictment. we don t know the beginning of
chairman paul manafort at trump tower. this makes no sense. but then i come back to rudy giuliani is not actually a lawyer. what rudy giuliani is, is a pr i don t want to say specialist but there for a pr purpose. he did reveal though, he did reveal an important piece of information before cohen pleaded guilty to all of his crimes. he s not as out of the loop. i think what he s trying to do is he s trying to manage expectations. he s hinting in a way, trying to get the public to digest the idea that collusion may have hand but not at the presidential level. so maybe when it is exposed in the mueller report, we aren t so outraged by the possibility. but it s bad for trump. this is like late-stage nixon. early on it was plausible richard nixon wouldn t know what gourd liddy and low-level oddball agents did. but then chuck coulson, mid-level did.
i m speaking with myself, number one, because i have a very good brain, and i ve said a lot of things. i know what i m doing, and i listen to a lot of people. i talk to a lot of people. and at the appropriate time, i ll tell you who the people are but i speak to a lot of people. my primary consultant is myself, and i have i have a good instinct for this stuff. time and time again, you interviewed him about this, other people asked about this. when asked who he turns to, who gets guidance from, he says no one. i am the decider. when it suits him, he s the decider. when it doesn t, he s not. to your point, it doesn t pass the smell test, not because trump should have known but because the people who are actually accused of collusion are not minor players. we re talking about his son don jr., meeting in trump tower with election officials. we re talking about the trump
but in the end i didn t know what ehrlichman was doing. and the tell is the air force one statement, where trump personally dictated a false account of the trump tower meeting. if he didn t know, he would have said i didn t know about this detail. i was running for president. i predict right now in our near future we re going to hear rudy giuliani say collusion on the part of the president s family? there might have been family members involved in collusion but it wasn t the president. his son, son-in-law, daughter, wife. but the president was insulated. he had no idea what his family was doing. phillipe, i have to give you a quick last word on late stage watergate. i think rudy deserves more credit than gets. i say this as a new yorker who voted for him three times, including his first loss and someone who thinks he s lost his marbles long ago but he does, like sam said, have two jobs. one job is being a lawyer and he s really, really bad at it.